Sacred Seasons: The flash-based MMO

by Seraphina Brennan Oct 14th 2009 at 3:00PM

Filed under: At a glance, Fantasy, Launches, New titles, News items, Free-to-play

We're not entirely sure how this one slipped under our radar. Perhaps it was a quiet launch, or perhaps it was a flash based massively multiplayer game, but we somehow failed to mention Sacred Seasons.

So now we're going to take the time to correct that error -- enter Sacred Seasons, an MMO that runs entirely in flash and entirely in your internet browser. The game tells the story of the Heartlands, a world that's much like ours except in hyperbole, where the seasons dominate so strongly that they resonate in humanity itself. The people of the world have broken off into four separate tribes, one each dedicated to one of the seasons. All of them ally together, however, to fight a plague spreading across the world -- the growing corruption of the badlands, areas of nothingness.

Sacred Seasons plays like a traditional MMO, but utilizes a turn-based combat scheme instead of the more popular real-time combat used by so many MMOs. The system is pretty much Final Fantasy's "active time combat," where you need to wait for your action meter to fill before declaring a move. Be careful though, as being in a menu does not pause time -- enemies will continue to attack!

The game has recently been released onto Kongregate, but can also be played on Facebook and their own website. Playing on the website means you have to make an account, but playing on Facebook or Kongregate means you can log in with your network ID and create a character immediately. Not bad for a small, indie, flash MMO.

Tags: active-time-battle, emerald-city-games, facebook, flash-game, flash-mmo, kongregate, sacred-seasons, social-network, turn-based, turn-based-combat

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

YourMother said on 4:06PM 10-14-2009

Tried it. It sucks.

Its a flash game and not that great of one.

Jaeden said on 4:34PM 10-14-2009

Worst...Game...Ever...

So buggy - I couldn't even bring myself to enter the first dungeon because it was so bad.

Poozle said on 5:04PM 10-14-2009

I've played it and it is just bad, gave it a couple of hours of my life and will never play it again.

Wisdomandlore said on 5:51PM 10-14-2009

I tried, wasn't too bad. Better than adventure quest. It will throw you together in battles with anyone else in the same room you are in, which is a nice touch. Definitely not great, though, but I could see myself wasting time at work with it.

Meagen said on 5:53PM 10-14-2009

This is a very pale copy of Dofus.

Mewmew said on 6:45PM 10-14-2009

You know what else you missed? Faunasphere. It's 100x the fun and game that Sacred Seasons is. When it first went into open beta, I mailed you to let you know, but you never listed it. When it went open to the public, I mailed you to let you know, but you never listed it. If you're going to list Sacred Seasons, I really wonder WHY you won't list Faunasphere. The team lead was one of the leads on Asheron's Call. It's got a free mode and various pay to play levels and is a really cool game. Will you say one day "I'm not sure how we missed this" or will you decide to finally read my email and put something up about it? The world may never know.

http://faunasphere.com/

Now a side note, I've played Sacred Seasons, and I don't find it buggy. Everything in game works exactly as it is supposed to for me, except the button about forgetting your password (which is outside before you enter the game).

Seraphina Brennan said on 7:01PM 10-14-2009

So I went back into my e-mail (which I never delete anything, ever) and searched for your mails. All I have from you, Miss Mew, are a few corrections you wanted us to make in the betawatch. Nothing about Faunasphere. My apologies, but it looks like we never got it.

What we did get, however, was an e-mail from the Faunasphere team that we overlooked. Must have gotten caught up with the other flash games we get that sent to us on a very routine basis that really aren't MMOs in the slightest.

EIther way, I'll run over and take a look at it. My apologies for not catching it. ^_^

Mewmew said on 2:39AM 10-15-2009

Let me apologize for seeming somewhat snooty and grumpy in my comment then. It wasn't supposed to be directed exactly to you, but to the anonymous being that is Massively that I imagined was ignoring tips for what I thought was a decent game :D I beg forgiveness for seeming grumpy.

To comment on this game tho, Sacred Seasons, it's not really that bad :D You can change into any different character whenever you want (but have to level each up) so if you're high level, have a friend that starts playing, you can morph into another class you have at level 1 to play with them. I thought it was still pretty fun, just there isn't that much to the cash shop weirdly enough. It's fast and easy enough to try too.

Kaoy said on 8:15AM 10-15-2009

Eh... It is really unbalanced. There are tank classes, but no way for them to tank. There are casters that can rip apart a mini-boss in 2-3 casts. There is one class in particular that seems down right ridiculous to me. Not for being overly unbalanced, but for having a glaring red target on their back that says 'Magic Attack Me!'. The Arctic Warrior. High damage, High health, Decent Defense, absolute lowest magic defense in the game. I heard form level 40+ Arctic warriors, and they have less magic defense at level 40 than any other class has by 20, and most by 10. Step in to PvP and most magic using classes can tear them apart in only a few turns, even if they are several levels below them.

That doesn't even get into how many trash skills there are in the game. 3 out of 4 buffs in the game? Never used. Entire classes are devoted to party buffs that, when used, will not even raise total out put or protection by 5%(Yeah, I am looking at you on the far right, Tharmanguous, or how ever your name is spelled). That wasn't always the case, since buffs used to stack on top of each other, then each cast would wear out over time. That made 2 or 3 things over powered so the developer, rather then try and think of a way to not have the stacking effect those skills, reduce their effect, or anything else that would require them to use their head decided to make it so no buffs stack, ever. Under any circumstances. That destroyed at least half the classes, reducing them to nothing but Sticky tape for 'N00B' comments.