An interesting game, to say the least.
Pirate King Online is interesting in that it's an onlline MMORPG (free to play) that uses a little bit of cell shading to give it a real anime feel, but has just enough seriousness in it to keep from coming off as a "child's" game.
When creating a character, you're given the opportunity to pick between four different characters: an average sized man, a larger stronger looking man, an average sized woman, and a little girl (weird, I know). Fortunately (and unfortunately at the same time) each character can wear their own specific types of weapons, and armor, and there is PLENTY to choose from. All though pretty much available to characters level 20 & above - I noticed that no two characters look alike. Upon character creation, you can choose different hair-do's and faces but later in the game you can have even more hair-styles & even colors, but from what I could gather, it can get pretty expensive in-game.
The game in my opinion is very newbie friendly - as there is a sort of "locator" that you can use to find pretty much everything and anything. People can even give you coordinates to where they're standing, even if its out in the middle of nowhere, with nothing nearby. Upon entering in these coordinates (numbers typed into a small window) you'll get a quite obvious arrow near your character's feet, that will work as a director, and point you in the direction you want to go. And it will persist, as long as you don't leave the game, or enter in new coordinates (or bring up the window & hit ENTER to clear).
While the "coordinates" is a nice feature, it also takes away a bit of the opportunity to explore (unless of course you can avoid temptation to check for coordinates), as everything can be located with this (NPCs, monsters, towns, and even item drops can be located).
Characters seem to have a bit of freedom with character classes as well. You start of as a regular sort of adventure, with no skills to speak of, but upon reaching a specific level (don't quote me on this, but I think its level 13) you can take a new class. Depending on which character you pick, you can choose from a variety of classes... the average sized male for example, can change into a class that allows him to wield firearms, the little girl can become a healer, and the average girl can become a mage. I haven't explored leveling and each character thurougly however, so I'm sure each character has plenty of more classes to choose from, I'm just not aware of them ;)
Now for some of my dislikes of this game...
I haven't been able to find a specific way to regenerate my life points quicker as it can take a while of doing nothing to fill back up on its own. Most the time the drops from monsters are random items such as wrinkled leaves, or grass, snail shells etc. and can usually only sell for 1-4 gold peices. Health restoration items seem really expensive, and even at low levels, the cheapest (yet still extremely expensive) "potion" hardly restores health at all.
The camera view: its at a terrible position above your character, cutting off a lot of the view around you. If you zoom out a lot it can be remedied, but I'm pretty sure its not possible to bring the camera down to ground level; you're only able to zoom in and out - sadly enough.
Some quests seemed a bit bugged. Now I know the game is only recently released, so this could be fixed in a future update... but I've come across a quest that I was unable to finish, due to the NPC not acknowledging my visit. Meaning I was told to speak with a specific man, I located him and spoke with him, he talked with me about the quest but it was not recorded in my quests as "ready to complete". Upon talking to him again, he would speak the one liner unrelated to the quest. I would return to the person that gave me the quest, and they would still tell me to speak with the man. :\
There seems to be only one song in the game, and its not very long. It loops constantly, and its not exactly a peaceful melody either. I myself have turned music off since it nearly drove me insane.
All-in-all its not a bad game, and since its newly released I'm sure it is possible to improve. Its worth playing at least, if you have some free hard drive space, and some time to kill.