Parallel Kingdom is a MMORPG on the Droid and iPhone.  While this game starts off slow with a twenty minute tutorial it eventually becomes a  monster killing and exploring extravaganza. Then after a week or two, it simply dies off into something you want to uninstall.

      Parallel Kingdom  connects to Google maps and  a GPS locator allowing you to travel around the Google Maps globe searching for fame, monsters, weapons and gold. You start off on an Island talking to an old monk. This monk will guide you through a tedious tutorial.  After twenty minutes, you get to go off to your starting GPS location, This location is the exact spot you’re standing at  in the actual world. You can start building flags which you click on  to travel, using your GPS, or calling your dog on the dog whistle  and touring around with your four-legged friend.. Don’t get too crazy though because you are going to need gold to buy  “Roc Feathers”. Roc feathers are needed to go from one place to another and depending on how far you travel, the number required can increase.

      There is live in game communication  with chat rooms. The most popular room is the help chat where you can find everyone being helpful or just being social. There are several other chats including trade chat, general, and over 18+ chat  There is also in game mail.  You can’t chat to the people  you run into  unless you  meet in the chat room or send them mail.  

      The game currently has two forms of currency: gold and food.  The gold is a lot less valuable than the food.  Gold can be used to buy more food, weapons, items for crafting and just about everything in the game. The food in the game is used to level your character and your pet dog. You may also buy the food at the Parallel Kingdom store or have someone else with a Droid install it and use the friend code in the tutorial.  The food in the PK store will require real money because this is a micro-transaction game..

      It’s not all about fighting and chat rooms.  You can dabble in farming by .  collecting berries from certain trees and replanting them as an orchard .  Of course, you can also simply eat them.  Alternatively, You can  mine for stone and iron, which can be used to create buildings and weapons.

      With so much to do it’s not long before you find something you are interested in, but as the weeks dwindle on you  become a little bored. You've been slaying the same monsters and using the same weapons and armor. Those same weapons, I might add,  have been upgraded repeatedly.
After a few weeks of play Parallel Kingdom finally pans out to be nothing more than cheap entertainment. There is a little more to the game, such as dungeons and building cities with friends, but over all it all starts to blend together.  


Overall Likes: The socializing was fun. Some of the crafting and building making can be fun. Hunting monsters for the “grind”.

Overall Dislikes: Gets old  fast. There are only about 10 different mobs in the whole game. While the mobs have different toughness, they are still the same. It doesn’t matter what weapon you choose, whether it’s a sword or a neat black iron sword, they do the same amount of damage.

Overall: I do recommend at least trying the game. It’s free. If you are a fan of MMO games it’s worth the download.