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A worthy effort!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: September 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game was innovative. The way you have to get your characters and everything. This game was hard if you had no help. There was no guide offered so it created quite a predicament trying to find all the characters. The hardest part was knowing when to go places. Even though this game was fun make sure you have help from somebody due to the many parts in the game. All inall, the game was fun and exciting. If you really want to have fun then get the characters Beak and Fang.

Not the best but sill worth a look

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

In Ephemeral Fantasia you take the role of a musician/bard/theif named Mouse. Mouse and his talking instrument accept a job offer from the Island of Eternal Summer. Very quickly you soon find out not all is as it seems. Your mission is to break out of the time loop.

The repetitiveness of the game can be annoying (being stuck in a time loop) but after the first week you don't have to go to any of the events again unless you want to or are trying to recrute a certain character. Which makes this game very non-linear. The way you recrute characters is by convinsing them they are repeating the same week over and over. Its ok if you miss someone one week because you can get them next time.

Don't forget the mini games. I am not very good at the guitar mini game (which reminds me of guitar freaks) but thats ok. Its frustrating not to get a good score but it doesn't sffect the game's out come. Another mini game (there are others) is the drinking you play with Clair (a very inportant character to have). The first 9 times you beat her you get a piece of the map.

While were on the subject of the map, this is probably the most anoying part of the game. Find the different peices for the 'world' (island) map can be difficult and tiresome.

Its true the graphics aren't what you would expect for PS2, but really the're just different. Ephemeral Fantasia has a cartoonish anime look (which I like.)

I noticed this game hasn't been getting the best reviews. I think people are being to hard on Konami. I find this game challenging but entertaing and fun too.

What this all boils down to it that some people like it and some don't. Deffinetly rent it first. If you like non-linear RPG adventers deffinetly give it a try. Don't let reviews sway your opinion until you try it for yourself. Try to keep an open mind.

whatever fantasia

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Theif or musician? In EF you take the role of Mouse, a theif disguised as a musician. Your partner is a 300 year old talking instrment named Pattimo. [dont worry mouse is REALLY young]
Mouse receives an invatation from pandule island to come and pay a visit. he accepts thinking hes gonna make lots of money which he does. But anyway the graphics are AWESOME if you like anime. the battle systems great and you get more allies than you know what to do with. one thing. the princess is THE UGLIEST GIRL ON PANDULE!! sure she might be pretty on the cover, but in the game shes UGGGGLY!! Rummys prettier. you'll get to know her when you play the game. anywho, inthe game the same 5 days get repeated. the princess is pretty much forced to get married to the evil guy stupidly named Xelpherpolis [sounds like a city] time keeps on looping soooo.. you have to stop time from looping
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A++++
great graphics
fun battle system
hilarious cutscenes
if there were 10 stars thats
what i would give it!

Konami is cool man

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Those gamers who are familiar with Konami's other games will be in a for a real treat with this one. Most of Ephemeral Fantasia's problems arise from the fact that it wasn't created by Sqauresoft. Like Suikoden, the graphics aren't stellar and the music gets a little repetitive, but what it lacks in these areas it makes up for in involving storylines, multiple outcomes, an innovative and complex battle system, and challenging real-time elements. The positive aspects to this game far out-weigh the negatives. Most of the complaints surrounding this title stem from the repetitive nature of the time loop and the fact that the game is hard. My response to the second complaint is that it's about time we had a hard RPG for PS2, and that the game's difficulty is mitigated by the very existence of the ever-so-annoying time loop. If you die, the next week starts. Yes, you lose money and items, but the monsters on the island drop tons of dough and you can always get the items again (they even re-appear in the exact same places you found them before). At least dying doesn't take away experience a la Diablo II or Everquest. And you never forget moves or lose weapon upgrades. Furthermore, once you recruit a certain character the game provides you with a time vault that lets you stockpile a limited number of items and all the money you can find. I will say this though: without a guide of some sort, it's almost impossible to get things done. This is a convoluted game. I get the impression that the US got a dumbed down version of the game, which is funny considering how hard we seem to think it is. My overall conclusion: a good RPG with a great storyline and (FINALLY!) an interesting battle system. It starts out a little slow, but if you make past week one this game is a gem. Accept a challenge and pick this game up.

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