Well I have played both.
Redstone far more extensively than the phoenix (only because it's been out longer).
Redstone:
The graphics are very "super nintendo" for a comparison. Ya know, the chubby little characters...
Upsides:
Skill system > Many skills to choose from, allowing you to go either hybrid or pure, since all classes have a second side.
Quests > Tons of quests out there to do, you have class quests, normal quests, main quests, title quests, etc
That's about it for the upsides as far as I am concerned.
Downsides:
Character building > The game is utterly convuluted when it comes how you have to build your character. It would appear at first glance that you have a very open character system, allowing you put points for attributes or skills anywhere you wish and be fine. However this is not the case. Considering you won't see any sort real grasp on your character until your in the 100's.
Once there, you will see all sorts of equipment with large mods to your skills that have HIGH reqs (ie: X amount of charisma for a archer skill, etc)
In any case, the documentation on proper builds is very skimpy at best.
Transportation > I find this part of the game the most tedious by far. It seems like it takes forever to get anywhere, since you so slow. Even with like +25%, +30% or more run speed. The game is geared for cash shop players that are going to be buying those carpets.
Also, the cost of transporting from one area to another is ridiculous imho (10,000g! which is quite high considering high level items only sell for like 7500? maybe 10k can't remember to be honest...In any case, money is a major pain to get ... at least for the first 75 or so levels)
Quest system > While being an upside, since there are so many to do. They are also a downside, considering the utterly retarded way so many of them are written out. Making you go back and forth across the same few areas over and over and over again ... sometimes costing you more money than you get for even completing the quest in the first place!
Finally, the community. Someone mentioned above that it was "more mature" and less "kiddish" ... I really laughed out loud when I read that.
I find people extremely rude in game. Alot of them will refuse to even speak in english, despite the game being for english speaking people (GnG has a version for non english people that is IP blocked I do believe)
Overall, the game is like a 3/10 .. Go ahead and play it yourself, everyone should form their own opinions based on actually playing the game. But if you can't be bothered, feel free to skip it, your not missing anything.
As for phoenix ...
At first the game didn't seem too bad, very low grade type of game. Minimal graphics, nothing fancy to see, the translations are poor at best. The loot system drives me utterly up the wall though!
There is simply too much crap dropped, you usually spend more time picking up your loot than you did killing what dropped it.
Then you have the silly little "alt button" loot window, that is supposed to make things easier on you .. sadly this is not the case .. considering it can have you running all over the place trying to pick up other peoples loot ... just a totally useless feature.
When are games going to come to their senses and just give us automatic looting in every game. Makes life so much simpler.
Anyways, neither game is very playable imho. Many other games out there to play that involve far less hassle.
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