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Where's the next creature!?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: July 31, 2001
Author: Amazon User

At first I played this game for a while and I only had the ability to summon one creature. I stopped playing it for a while but then gave it another shot and now I'm really into it! You don't know what the next ring will bring you or how many creatures it will bring. You ask me? It's an amazingly adictive RPG game; and that is hard to find.

Not a bad RPG

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: September 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Being one of the first RPG's for the PS2 console, you have to give the authors, Voalition, credit for making this game. Probably not having a full concept of the powers that the PS2 console has, they have done a pretty good job with the game. Sure, the characters could've been done a little better but the environments are eye catching. Being stationed in Korea, we don't have a Blockbuster or any other place to rent video games. Lucky for me, my roomate also has a PS2 and purchased this game. I played it and was bored near the beginning but once you get past the first part and hit the first city, it's a pretty cool game. The story isn't too bad either. The battle system is a bit difficult with the chain attacks but it's an original idea...at least I think it is. With my roomate buying this, I enjoyed this game enough to purchase it. And with the price being lowered here on Amazon, it's definitly worth the money. All in all, a pretty good game!

the fighting was good!!....No WAy

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: May 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

All I have to say was that it was the worst game i ever played.It blowed!!When you fight you have to wait like 5 seconds before he even hits the guy.The graphics are terrible.The man character looks dead!If I was you I wouldn't buy this horrible and annoying game

Too many problems to be considered a decent game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Hmm...I'll start with what's good: the game is fairly fun, it has a reasonably cool skill system, there's enough side-quests to keep you entertained much longer than the game actually takes to beat, the characters have some amount of depth (and differ rather greatly), the graphics are fairly nice, the music is quite good, the voice actors fit very well with their characters, it's the best rpg-ish game on the PS2 (which, honestly, isn't saying much at all), and, most importantly, it has a great hidden movie (press X in the credits).

Now for the bad: there are enough random side quests to make the most hardened player of BG2 cry, and very few of them give you the option to not take them on. That means if you only want to do a few of them, you'll have to sort through the ones you don't want in your quest menu. Also the character AI is the worst I've seen since Warcraft 2. Characters will run off on their own to initiate a battle across the battle map, or will throw fireballs at enemies that are healed by fire while your other characters in the blast radius get hurt (after the same attack on the same enemy has failed to have a positive effect the last 20 times it's been tried). The sound cuts out all the time (probably one out of five areas/encounters has only the background music and footstep sounds) and I have yet to hear the sound from the Dragon summons. Probably the most frustrating thing is the messed up experience system. I won't go into great detail here, but after 20th level, you need 20 times as much experience per level, but still get it at the same rate....and you're getting fewer skill points.

So why does this get such a low rating? The real reason is that while it's on the Playstation 2, it seems like it was given as much effort as the average Super Nintendo game....from graphics to sound to depth of game, it's an inferior game taking up the shelf space of a superior system.

For Final Fantasy Fans Only

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: February 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I am a fan of RPG's and similar games for all systems, including the Resident Evil series and the Legend of Zelda series. I've also played the Final Fantasy games, and one thing is clear. You must enjoy the Final Fantasy format to appreciate Summoner. If you don't, you'll probably want to stay away and wait for Code Veronica and other games that will be out in the future. The combat mode (called chain attack) is nothing more than timing. You have no real control over combat situations beyond selecting a spell or move and then watching the game execute it if you time it right. Then, when your turn is up, you stand idly by and take whatever damage your current enemy dishes out. (Much like Final Fantasy) In addition, the information that the characters must get from villagers, etc. comes in annoying, long and largely useless scroll formatting. If Final Fantasy bored you after just a bit (as it did me), skip Summoner.

Cool Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This was the only game I bought for my PS2. None of the other games that have so far come out looked like fun. I'm into RPGing: Final Fantasy, Crono Cross, Legend of the Dragoon... etc.

The really bad thing about this game is the loading time. Although the PS2's loading is supposed to be super fast. The game graphics are okay, but not what I was expecting to see on my new PS2 system. The story line is wonderful! The game was full of hours of fun and great plot changes.

Great Game!

PLEASE MAKE SOME GOOD RPG GAMES FOR PS2

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: March 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I wouldn't play this game if it was given to me free. We waited so long for the PS2 to come out and all I'm playing on it is playstation games. No one makes good RPGs anymore. Squaresoft is about the best I've found, Working Designs, and Sony ---- come on, guys, give us some GOOD RPGs = PLEASE - PLEASE

Hey, it is the best out so far...........

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I really enjoyed this game, I am by no means as seasoned an RPG player as some of the other reviewers so I guess I don't have a whole lot to compare it to, but I liked it. From what other titles I have seen in this category so far it is the best. Unless you want to wait for Final Fantasy XXIV(whatever) then get this one for some fun. Peace.

This game ...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: December 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Thank God I rented this game first. When I put the game in and saw the graphics, I figured I must have rented from the Playstation1 rack, but that was not the case. The graphics just ... that bad.

Also, the way that you fight on this game is ridiculous. Point at the attacker and push X, wait, push X, wait. You really have no control over it.

For those of you thinking about buying this game, don't.

People that give this game a good review are trying to trick you into buying this game. ...

Summoner has poor graphics, poor audio, poor playability.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Summoner is bad. Just bad. There is no way around this. The graphics are fuzzy and unimpressive. Compared with Ultima IX on a PC with V2 1000 (ancient 3D graphics card!), the poeple are just plain badly rendered. And the plot and dialogue are limited to scrolling text! I demand audio dialogue in games of this generation. Finally, the play is simplistic. The "chaining" combat system works fine, but is uninteresting after a few moments. This is the truth : Crusaders of Might and Magic, a PS1 title I bought used ..., is superior in every way.

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