Talk:Game Updates/@comment-76.233.26.173-20120428203042/@comment-4610180-20120430020634

ಠ_ಠ The art is still nicer. As in, the graphics in general, not sure how someone could say they're worse. They're both very "kiddy," I guess you could say, but DV's dragon animations are very very basic. You literally have a skeleton of the dragons, which divides them into different movable parts. Often it'll be like 2-3 pieces for the head, 2-3 for the body, 1 for each leg, etc. And these pieces are simply moved around, and that's how the dragons move. TM uses swf animations for their monsters, which allows them to do a whole lot more than simply moving skeleton parts around, but while it's a lot nicer in general, it uses up more cpu on your device too. The building/habitat quality is about the same for both games, I would say, but the grass and sky and stuff has a more hand painted feel to it, which I do like more than DV, because it's more pleasing to the eye.

You could argue about boring monsters, but you can easily make the same argument about DV. Sonic dragon? It's a bat. Iceberg? It's a walrus. Water? Sea serpent. Rainbow? An eastern-styled dragon with a rainbow gradient applied to it. Tree is literally a tree. Reindeer is a reindeer. At the same time, there are nice designs from both games. In the end though, what's considered "boring" or not is completely subjective, because what one person may consider boring another may not. Opinion will differ from person to person.

That said, as I previously mentioned, there are things about TM that can easily turn people off. Cons off the top of my head would include the ridiculously high cost of habitats early on, the fact none of these habitats can even hold 10k or higher (Max is 7.5k from large earth), how large trees cost 1m to clear (absolutely ludicrous, I tell you), small habitat spaces, which make the high costs more painful (Though it seems recently they did increase the limit on some of the small habitats from ONE to two monsters), and the gem price difference across devices. Yes, you heard correctly, things have different prices depending on what idevice you're using. I'm not sure what the reasoning behind that is, but gem costs on monsters can differ anywhere from like 20 gems to 200.

It's certainly a nice game to play on the side, and I do like how they implemented mythics recently, a la Pokemon style (Wish DV would do shiny dragons, it would give me something to breed for), but the game in its current state simply cannot compete with DV.

OKAY I'm done now. That ended up being far longer than I'd originally planned.