Creatures of Sonaria

Creatures of Sonaria is a game made by Sonar Studios, a survival and roleplaying game made in 2020 where you can collect, trade, fight and play as different creatures with other players. It is currently in its Alpha stage.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) The game is very laggy and takes up a lot of resources. Because of this, mobile players can have a hard time loading in, and even PC players as well. It sometimes causes devices to crash, kicks the user out of Roblox, and causes their screen to freeze. Getting disconnected can happen pretty often, and the lag can cause problems when fighting.
 * 2) Some creature abilities haven't been fixed yet, such as the Cottol's area poison, Gnolrok's rock breath, and Nindyr's toxic puddle, even after weeks or months of them being broken. Some creatures also have issues with their models that still haven't been fixed as well.
 * 3) The random Gacha was removed in 2021 and split up into a few other Gacha's, each one costing more than the rest. This makes the game a grindfest for new players and even experienced players in general if they want to get new creatures from the Gacha's, with an example of this being the session Gacha, where you have to kill 3 players, grow a creature, survive a weather event, eat 100 food and drink 100 water.
 * 4) The private servers used to cost 100 robux, but now they cost 500. Having a private server for a year means that you'll have to pay a staggering 6,000 robux, which is 75.00 U.S dollars in robux. While they are optional, this proves that the game finds other ways to milk the player's money.
 * 5) The dev creatures are a quick cash grab, as their species costs robux, so you'll have to buy them in order to finish your entire collection. This also means that a new player can buy them and get an overpowered creature at the beginning of the game.
 * 6) The game forces players to be on the game for a long period of time, with some examples being that you get 5 mushrooms per 2 minutes in game. The two occasional weather events with minigames barely make up for this as well, since that they can start to get boring quickly, and even then they give little to no mushrooms. There's also the time Gacha, and in order to get the Hellion Warden, you need to play for 250 hours.
 * 7) Some creatures are ridiculously overpowered, such as the Aeries and Sana'ata. The aeries were meant to be a quick escape creature, but its stats make it more of an attacking creature instead.
 * 8) There isn't much to do post-game after you've finished your collection. You can talk to other players and explore the map but that's about it. It doesn't help that completing your creature collection can take a while as well, since that there are 260 creatures in total, counting the ones that aren't in game or were scrapped.
 * 9) The herb plants look like brightly colored eyesores and are out of place, as it doesn't match the game's art style. They constantly move around the map which makes it a pain for herbivores to obtain them. What's even odder, is that they added meat spawners for carnivores which don't move around the map, which removes the challenge of hunting as a carnivore. There's barely any aspect of survival in this game, and it just seems like a roleplaying game rather than both a survival and roleplaying game.
 * 10) The map is tiny and can be explored around easily by using a flier within a few minutes. Thankfully, there is a map redesign coming which will make it bigger.
 * 11) There's no NPCs on land, only underwater. Even then, the underwater NPCs don't have any animations. So they either stay in place not moving at all, drift away from you into walls, or drift to you and stay in the middle of your creature, dealing damage.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) The creatures have nice color schemes, and have smooth animations (walking, running, etc). Their models look pretty good despite their flaws, and you can even buy other palettes to mix and match colors as of September 2021.
 * 2) The lore is kind of interesting. 3. The map redesign will come with the entire code of the game being built from scratch, and it will have reduced lag and less bugs.

Trivia

 * 39% of the creatures aren't in the game yet.