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Wow

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 60
Date: August 07, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I think this game looks great! It is the first true RPG for the N-64 and from what I have read it looks really cool. And it is about time the 64 got an RPG because Quest was to lame of an RPG to even be called a game.

BLOWN AWAY

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 27 / 41
Date: October 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is awesome from what Ive heard and seen. I really think the RPG makers outdid there selves. But theres going to be some competion between Ogre battles64 and Aidyn chronicles but to me theres no battle to fight just from looking Aidyn chronicles has all ready won. When I looked at ogre battles64 I thought it was for super NES, then I looked at Aidyn chronicles and I wanted it right away cause of its 3D graphics, unlike ogre battle 2D graphics. Well you decide but for me Aidyn chronices cant be beat!

Looks truly promising

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: January 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This title from THQ is their follow-up to Quest 64, a somewhat disapointing title which had the bare-bones structure of an RPG and a very weak story. In recent interviews, members of the Aidyn Chronicles development team have cited these weaknesses from Quest, and are promising an improvement for Aidyn. The game already has a more grown-up plot line, and if you have seen any pictures from the game, the graphics look great.

Let's hope that Aidyn comes through in 2001, as there has been a running lack of good RPGs throughout the N64's brief history.

It's about time

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 18 / 22
Date: January 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

From what I've read and seen this game is amazing! I have been waiting months for it to come out and still am. A total of 13 playable characters and hundreds of non playable characters throughout the game, either good, bad,or neutral. There is a money and trade system. It has fully customizable characters, every level up you put in experiance in the areas you want it like agility or strength, a great advantage if you rather like to be a weapon user rather than putting experiance points into magic. There is also a day/night cycle and some characters are either solar or lunar aspected.(Play well during day[solar], play well during night[lunar]) The battle system is great. You have complete freedom with your character being able to move around the battle arena in the characters movement range. A small fast character can move in bigger areas. This gives the a small character a chance to run behind an enemy and get in a backstab attack. A big muscular bulky player cant move as well though. It is probably best for them to just go in for a frontal attack. Finnaly there is an RPG that players have been craving. It is about time to because it is hard to look at the N64 and look at the RPG genre and see Quest sitting there. That game was a humiliation.

Wonderful Game-Finally a good RPG

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 11
Date: March 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

From what I've read and seen this game is amazing! I have been waiting months for it to come out and still am. A total of 13 playable characters and hundreds of non playable characters throughout the game, either good, bad,or neutral. There is a money and trade system. It has fully customizable characters, every level up you put in experiance in the areas you want it like agility or strength, a great advantage if you rather like to be a weapon user rather than putting experiance points into magic. There is also a day/night cycle and some characters are either solar or lunar aspected.(Play well during day[solar], play well during night[lunar]) The battle system is great. You have complete freedom with your character being able to move around the battle arena in the characters movement range. A small fast character can move in bigger areas. This gives the a small character a chance to run behind an enemy and get in a backstab attack. A big muscular bulky player cant move as well though. It is probably best for them to just go in for a frontal attack. Finnaly there is an RPG that players have been craving. It is about time to because it is hard to look at the N64 and look at the RPG genre and see Quest sitting there. That game was a humiliation.

This game is fun and interesting

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: April 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Aidyn Chronicles The First Mage is a good game to get if you like games like Dragon Warior.I love how the characters do battle, because it makes the battle come more alive.I also like the story line and the interesting characters you meet along the way.

Not enjoyable for the casual gamer

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 11
Date: April 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is a boring game. I just couldn't get into it at all. The characters' conversations seem to go on FOREVER, and there's no way to break away from someone talking to you and move on. The "battle mode" is also something that I found to be distracting and frustrating; however, if you're a big fan of the old-style RPGs that use this feature, you'll probably like this game. On the other hand, if you want fast-paced action or thrilling gameplay, I'd stick to another title. The graphics and story line are the best parts of the game. Still, I wouldn't spend sixty bucks on "Aidyn Chronicles" unless you're a hard-core RPG fanatic.

Not Zelda but It's Still Good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 12
Date: April 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Aidyns Chronicles is an excellent RPG if you forget about the Zelda series. In Aidyns Chronicles you get to take on the role of ten different characters, being upto a maximum of four at any one time. There is plenty of variation in this game as the tasks can be completed in any particular order. This is a great game and lets hope that they hurry up and supply us with a sequel

A diamond in the rough... covered with bugs

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 28 / 32
Date: April 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

A diamond in the rough... covered with bugs

Gosh I so wanted to like this game. There's a lot to like. The gameworld is huge - you could spend hours exploring it. The story is immersive enough to keep you interested. The combat sequences can be kind of long, but never get boring. Plus you have a large number of party-member combinations which changes the direction of the story. I could go on, but others have extolled about the virtues of the game better than I could.

The game feels kind of unfinished, like a piece of coal that isn't quite a diamond. THQ boasts a gameworld larger than both Zeldas combined, and this is certainly true. I spent about an hour trekking from the castle town to the first village - travelling takes a LONG time - and while the scenery changes alot (from forest to lakes to snow-capped peaks) there's not all that much to DO. After the initial "Gee that's pretty" factor, traveling from town to town becomes an effort in patience. The towns also feel kind of empty. There are a couple of people walking around, and about a dozen houses (only a few with people in them). I know that the memory constraints are tight, so they couldn't have included everything they would have liked, but that's the sacrifice you make for such a huge gameworld. I'm not sure this is a good thing. A smaller, detailed, more interactive gameworld is always better than a huge, sprawling, empty one, in my opinion.

Aidyn Chronicles is also, I'm sorry to say, a bug ridden mess. A few times my main character got stuck in scenery (trees & walls) and I wasn't able to get him out. But, the most unforgivable thing was the huge number of errors & crashes I encountered. I played for an hour, gathered & equiped my party, and set off on my quest, only to talk to a villager and have the game give me an error message and die on me. I started over, this time saving frequently. I reached a certain point and my saved game became corrupted, forcing me to start over again. This time I kept a back-up saved game. I reached a bit further only to have BOTH saved games get corrupted. By this point I was so frustrated tip-toeing around the game's bugs that I gave up and put the game up for auction on eBay.

This is a major shame, because the storyline was interesting enough to make me want to continue (long treks and empty towns nonwithstanding). Maybe if you've got more patience than me, this is a game worth having.

Aidyn chronicles

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: May 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I thought that the game lacked some fundumental basics of newcoming adventures and missions. The game tends to get repetitive towards the end. Altogether this is still a high quality game.

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