I'd like to start off by asking what in God's name made you think this was a kid's game? Was it the Standard Cave-in Protocol located on the Homepage?
Before I get to this, let's start from the beginning. Style: You are aware that you can change the layout of the game, correct? There's several layouts to choose from and you can also use a custom layout. If you played the game a decent amount at all, you would have visited the Account Options. Judging by the screenshots, this review isn't from a3's older years either. As for the bank robbery picture, it's humor. Something you apparently don't have.
You obviously don't play a lot of these games, because they don't a story. You hang out there and try outdoing your friends(or the game itself). Do whatever you want. You can also become a merchant, so no sir, battling isn't the only thing you can do. You don't even need to keep your alien alive. It needs to be alive long enough for you to do your daily battles, trains, gym gains, and whatever else you can do. Herbs do not "keep your alien alive", they revive them. VERY different concepts. That's the only thing you seemed to focus on, so I'm going to add some more things you could have focused on, such as, I don't know, fishing maybe? Fishing is one of the quickest ways to make credits on the game. There's mining. You didn't mention that part.
Oh boy, this is the section I've been wanting to tear at. You aren't asked your age simply because kids are not stupid, they know how to lie. Actually, he probably just forgot to add that in, but either way, it doesn't matter. "Safe" as in child-friendly? They don't need to be. This isn't a game for kids. It's a game for us losers who lack lives and enjoy socializing over a3 with people we don't have to stare at. And also, posts marked NSFW imply that the post isn't safe for any place in which the post can get you into trouble. If you see that tag, and click the post anyway, your own fault.
Moderators are to do their job when the rules are broken. Mature content is not against the rules at all. If a moderator wants to have an assholish personality, he/she will. Moderators still have to follow the rules of the forum, as they are enforcing them, but that doesn't mean they just have to stare at posts all day and figure out whether the post is good or bad.
There are filters for language. Go to account options > Decency settings. Users will have whatever type of conversations they want to have. There are no rules against it. As long as nothing like porn is posted, they are good to go. Unless they post something offensive without marking it "NSFW". As for the report button, in Quickposts there's a "Flag" option, and in message boards there is a "report post" button. You may also type in /mute ID to mute a player. You can also block specific players, again, account options.
All I have to say about the gameplay part, other than what I have already mentioned, is that you will always have to figure stuff out on your own. No matter what game it is. This is a text game, it consists of clicking. I don't think you need to be shown how to click the left mouse button over and over. Trust me, it's similar to riding a bike, once you learn, you never forget.
Guilds are what make the game fun. Another sign that shows you made no effort to actually play the game. The guild's usefulness depends on the guild itself. This is what you should have been mentioning in gameplay. The guilds themselves are battling for ranks, which are based off a level system, the Loza Arena system(Judging by how much you played the game, I'm certain you know how it works, so I don't need to explain), the Echoplane (This neither), and the Clearing (Same here). Also, every guild DOES have a guild chat. Also, you have the option of donating any percentage of your experience or credits, in exchange, the guild can provide you with weapons, herbs, resources, and so on to help you out. The guild also has its own message board.
If the rude and obscene users offend you so much, stay off the chat and message boards. A community is what the players make of it. So, next time you review a game, know your facts. This is byfar one of the most biased reviews I have ever read.
I played AAA a while ago, sent them a bit of money for some of the upgrades. Back then it was an intense grind. That is, each day you can only train x times, equal to your endurance, each raising a stat by a tiny fraction than a whole. Oh, and you have to pay to get access to the gym. You get 1 shot per day at learning 1 letter of a new language by doing a quest, and need 26... with a roughly 50-50 chance.
The best money was training a specific skill, such as fishing, herbs, or such, because higher level players would pay you for better healing 'foods'. Which left you honestly rather sick of that specific skill after a while.
The art style, while goofy, belies the basically text game mechanics. That is, the majority of the game is played by looking at what is said, not what the pictures are.
The primary difference occurs when mining, which is a very low graphics attempt at a mini dungeon crawl. You enter from one point, need to find the other point, and by wandering around you can find ores and monsters. Oh, but since it'll take you a few days/weeks to raise your stats to where you can actually survive, you can't do this very quickly. Nor go to the deeper levels very soon.
It's not a bad game, and I'm pretty sure it has a rather dedicated crowd of players. But my personal experience was that a majority of the features were based around artificially lengthening the amount of time it would take to earn any kind of reward.
I haven't played it recently though, so I'd love to hear about any changes or additions. What was your take?