PHS Press staff member
A pirate stands next to the wheel of his mighty airship with
Bonnie Anne, fox sniper, down on the decks and his other crew below. The pirate
has destroyed dozens of armada troops, but they still keep manufacturing new
ones. The pirate must find the map to El Dorado, or the armada will destroy all
pirates in the world! He knows where the next piece of the map is. The pirate
and their crew must enter the mine. Little does he know that the spymaster of
the armada is waiting inside.
What’s going on here? Just an average day in Pirate101.
Pirate101 was released a few years after the hit game Wizard101
by Kingsisle games, maker of W101. The game was a companion game to Wizard101,
and also improved on things that Kingsisle thought Wizard101 did wrong. As the
name suggests, the game is pirate based, with the player as a pirate flying
through the Skyways (For some reason, everything takes place in the air) in their
pirate airship…ship…whatever. They must stop the Clockwork armada from killing
off all pirates and taking over the entire world! Anyway, when the player
starts the game, they are in a prison onboard an armada ship, with Boochbeard, the
pirate who directs the player through the game, standing before your cell.
Boochbeard asks you your gender, after which you choose. Then you go through a
quiz asking your name, how your parents died, where you were raised, and (The
most important one as it determines your class) what the armada arrested you
for.
The classes: Buccaneer (Defense focus), Swashbuckler (Attack
focus), Privateer (Healing focus), Musketeer (Long ranged attack focus), and Witchdoctor
(Weird magic skills focus). Once you’ve chosen which one of those is right for
you, Boochbeard will tell you to design your flag, which is displayed on the
sails of your ship (Once you get one). Finally after all that is done, you’ll
start the tutorial of the game! I won’t bore you with the details, but in the
tutorial you learn how to steer a ship, how to fight (more on that soon) and
receive your first companion!
Companions: In the game, there are a lot of things you have
to do. You can’t do all those things alone, so Kingisle added companions to the
game. These anthropomorphic animals from many worlds of the “Spiral” (magical
universe in which all Kingsisle games take place) will help you on all your
quests with advice, special combat skills, and more! These funny and cool
animals, such as Gaspard De Vole, the guinea pig guard, are gained from mini
quests, main quests, or hired from the shop.
COMBAAAT OH YEAH! The combat in the game is very
interesting. It is also very similar to chess! You move yourself and your
companions around on a “Battleboard” and use special boosting and attacking
skills to defeat your opponents! There are obviously many strategies to this
type of combat, which makes it all the more fun!
Well that’s the basics, Pirate101 also has just as rich a
storyline as Wizard101, and is littered with references to W101, so I’d
recommend it to a W101 player, or any gamer looking for something new and fun!
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