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The rare great SRPG

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have almost completed this game now, and it has been the most fun I have had with an SRPG since Advance Wars DS. It reminds me of Final Fantasy Tactics as well, as the story and game mechanics are very well done. I would certainly recommend this game to anyone who has played and loved the two titles listed above.

tactis game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

finally I have the pleasure to play a tactic's game with the same caliber as final fantasy tactic's for the ps1. I recomended this game to those who are know for the genre. graet game

Desacrating history is loads of fun!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

First off, it's a mistake to compare this game to FFT, when it's predecessor is quite obvious. If you liked Tactics Ogre, you'll enjoy this game thoroughly. The game is beautiful, the animations even though few and far between are amazing. The sounds are great, although the soundtrack, for me, is quite lackluster and one of it's lowest points (save a few tracks, the music is sorta off.... but Tactics Ogre wasn't memorable for it's soundtracks either) The voice acting is awesome, although most of the characters speak with an "outrageous french accent" which is quite funny at times. The control scheme is quite comfortable. Now for the good stuff:
The storyline takes a draw from the best known episodes in history in regards to the Lady of Arc and gives it some nice twists. Demonizing the English isn't fair, but it's fun anyways. If you dislike politic-heavy storylines, or dislike when they mix history with fantasy, you might not enjoy this romp.
The characters: although the characters feel uneven in the battlefield, all the characters so far are memorable in some respect. Awesome character development. Truth be told, I had my doubts about a lion-headed behemoth being your ally, but La Hire is awesome. Character building is quite different, most characters are set in their roles by a sort of predetermined character growth (some charachters are just better spellcasters than others, or have higher HP and defense...just because) and you can't mix and match weapons. So there's no job system to speak of, to remind you of Tactics Ogre for GBA. In short, some characters rock, and some don't. But you'll be using all of them, I assure you. And they all have their roles, even if those roles aren't quite clear.
Gameplay: so, the way Tactics Ogre works is (for those of you reared up mostly on FFT): the player has a turn, you move all your characters and act, then the enemy has a turn at the same thing. Turns are called phases, come to think of it. The good news is, you move and then act, so you can try out all the possibilities during one turn, and then actually execute them, without worrying about the outcome. The bad news is, once you act, you can't move if you didn't. Character growth is done through a sort of crystal system: you equip some abilities, or stats (say, HP+50...guess what that does) and later on, you can combine abilities to come up with new abilities (HP+ 50x2 gives you...HP+100)
There's also a story driven feature in the battle system: some of the chracters have bracelets that allow them to... morph? I dunno, at least it's not over the top.
Now, some nitpicking (neither good nor bad):
-there's an elemental affiliation system that I, to this point, don't get. It sort of works like FFT's zodiac system. Truth be told, at this early stage, I guess it makes little difference. Plus, the stella, luna and sol abilities are useful for combining skills.
-there's too few slots for skills.... but you make do with what you have
- some of the more necessary spells, like resurrect, cost an incredible ammount of MP, and some of the most basic spells do so too. Healing is a process too, you have to even think twice about it.
-like I mentioned, characters strengths are unbalanced: for example, Colet, the thief, is awesome, and will almost always never get hit, and some of the brutes, so I end up using him all the time, then I have Jeane, whom I never use, because he's there to ... take up space? As support? I dunno
-archers can shoot arrows through stuff, like rocks and buildings..... not even over them, as it sometimes happened in FFT. Or through your allies for that matter. That makes it too easy to like archers.
- some of the skill animations are weak sauce.
- the sprite animation is all cutesy and misleading; it personally doesn't bother me, but I can imagine some people either shunning it for this, or some people buying it for their kids, and therefore submitting their kids to a great title that might go over their heads.
-Death has become an issue with this title, and for good reasons: characters die pretty much in a permanent fashion. I haven't seen any resurrection items yet, and like I mentioned before, the spell to bring anyone back is very costly
- every character is a story character, there aren't any nameless foot soliders that you can shape into killing machines. I dunno how I feel about that one...I mean, not every character is incredibly important, but so far, out of 13 characters you can take to battle, 8 are pretty important. There's a lot of emotional investment to the characters, I must say.
-The main antagonist (or who seems to be the main antagonist) is a kid...you deal with that how you will.
-The storyline is religious heavy, so...you decide on that one too.

Overall, this game is awesome, easy to pick up, not necessarily for everyone, and if you're a tactical RPG buff, this one should be among your repertoire.

It had me at "Ho ho! Attendez!"

A Must-Have for PSP!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is really well-made and I highly recommend buying it! You can really tell that the game developers put in a lot of time to create a game that has a cohesive storyline, beautiful graphics (especially the anime cut-scenes!), and intuitive gameplay!

The game is basically broken up into different battles. After you finish one battle, there's a video which leads you into the next destination battle. You have a number of different characters to choose from to support Jeanne in freeing France. And while the gameplay is just these RPG battles, the amount of choices you have as the player is endless. You have to choose who is best suited to support Jeanne and how to allot their skills (i.e - assigning Flash Strike to a high-damage Rogue for a really high damage hit against opponents).

I don't really have anything negative to say about this game, except that it doesn't lend itself to being played for short bursts (10-15 minutes). If you're home and you have half an hour, sit on the couch and play the game. The game is kind of like a console game rather than a "portable" one, because of how developed it is with the story line videos/cut-scenes.

F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C!!!!!! A wonderful story and great strategic game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I owned around PSP games and frankly this is, by far, the best game I've seen. Great and engaging story, excellent strategic game and wonderful graphics. A great pleasure to play, I spent 50 hours to finish it and I am sad it is over.

To any PSP fan, this is the MUST game you have to have.

Awesome game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is the type of games that is perfectly suited for the PSP. Love the strategy involve during the battles. Story is good but it slows toward the middle of the game. The game is a little easy as you can level up pretty easily and there is no grinding involve. This game is very similar to Final Fantasy Tactics as it is a SJRPG.

This is a great game for you RPG fans

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The game is great, I love the 3-D views and rotation so im able to see everything on the battle field. The story is entertaining and the graphics are sweet. I love RPG's, although I did enjoy it, I wish it was just a little more complex to play. Its a intermdiate level game play with lots of text and animation. Over all a good buy, and I recieved it within five days with no problems.

sorry for the load time :wink:

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

i had originally planned to review this game, maybe a day or two after i received it. that just wasn't going to happen. i got so completely enthralled in this game that i forgot. so here it is: this is the best rpg out for this console, period. i admit i haven't played all the games, and i will be getting the new FF game when it comes, but i really don't expect them to be better than this.

With its innovative system of combining anime featurettes with the standard click through dialog the game seems to move faster with more of a dramatic streak than other rpg's.
There aren't any random battles, and the free combat system works wonderfully. as you progress through the game the opponents you face get notably stronger, especially in the free combat. when the game says that you've unlocked a new free combat area,i do suggest that you practice up before advancing tho the next stage as it definitely makes things easier and allows you to level up faster.
this game also has many different subplots, as almost every character you meet has something else happening than just following jeanne into battle every now and then. There is a good deal of very well done foreshadowing done in the scenes between and after various stages. it leads you to know that there is something going on/something wrong but it doesn't just come straight out and tell you, which is nice.
A lot happens in the game, besides semi-random wandering, and freeing the country from evil that happens in every other rpg out there. Theres a gripping storyline that really adds another dimension to the game play that really earns it the five stars. And theres French people, what more could you ask for?

Tips: Save before every stage and free combat!
Don't even bother with the Colosseum until you have, say two, very dominant characters- at least two level 50s.

Excellent S.RPG

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is quite a nice srpg game with a lot of contents and interesting ideas, such as the skill-binding. However, if they put more animation into the game, such as a special animation for skills, or magic attacks, the game would be even better.

Great graphics and storyline. Wished it was more challenging and a true epic.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I had more fun with Jeanne D'arc than I've had with other RPG's, except for Final Fantasy 3 and 7. The graphics and gameplay are fantastic, although I wished that the game was more challenging and the story a bit longer. I spent a total of 25 hours to beat the game, and after getting the hang of it, I found the levels less challenging to beat the FF series. But if you want a shorter RPG that's a lot of fun, Jeanne D'arc's a good one. It exceeded my expectations.

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