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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!

A Very Respectable RPG For The N64!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 20 / 21
Date: May 31, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Hello,

We had to wait over five years, but here it is!!

This was supposed to be the follow-up to Quest 64. While it does bear some vague resemblance to Quest, Aidyn Chronicles is a wholly different class of game altogether.

I've played many RPG's in the last twenty years, and while I can't say this is the best in every respects, for a game that attempts to challenge the demands of producing an exciting 3D medieval fantasy world geared towards the Dungeons and Dragons crowd, while attempting the bridge the innate limitations of the N64 console into a category of software that normally requires the most storage capacity possible (which the N64 game cartridge sorely lacks compared to CD and DVD), Aidyn Chronicles is a major achievement.

The developers paid much attention to detail in all aspects of the game. Couple that with the fact that this game takes 30 - 50 hours of continuous play to complete the main quest, and you have detail in epic proportions.

Hardcore RPG players have used PC's for their gaming experiences (and in some cases, the Playstation has made it on the map), but this is the first entry that has the complexity close to what one would expect to find in a high-end RPG PC game, without the keyboard, CD's, and $1000+ entry fee in the way of a PC as your console.

Remarks: I started playing it on a weekend a couple months ago. After a few hours, I was hooked. It became my favorite weekend companion. I recommend giving yourself at least an hour (if not two or more) per playing interval. Don't try to play the entire quest through in one sitting!!! It is exciting and absorbing enough (like other well written RPG's) to wrap you up in it and leave you in a timeless dimension. If it's your first experience with an RPG of this caliber, take note of that. Otherwise, it is a thought-provacative, exciting and fun!!

Good luck!

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.

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.

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.

A Role Player's Fantasy

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: September 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

First of all, I'd like to say I'm... at the "12 year old gamer from Fort Johnson", second of all, If y'all out there are real RPG enthsiasts and you like games like Dungeons & Dragons & Baldur's Gate you should be pretty well pleased with this. It's got pretty much every type of stat from DND & BG and you can actually move around during combat. I bought FF8, I still play it, but I'm more interested in Aidyn Chonicles, it has an intriguing storyline, and guess what mr. "12 year old gamer from fort johnson" you actually have to beat the... goblin boss before you can get a good story. Now instead of complaining about the fort johnson kid. I'll review the stats.

Graphics
They're not the best, but at least it's not Paper Mario(which is a fun game but is more action related than RPG related). One good thing is that you can go anywhere you want(nearly). I bought this game after stinging my [amt] to spend on a weekend field trip and when I got home to play it I got lost in the very first area(YA DON"T GET LOST IN THE LOST WOODS DO YA? THESE ARE THE WOODS FROM HELL)

Control
It has a simple interface where you use the joystick, the A button and the B button. Combat's pretty neat too . . .

Story
I'd tell you all about my little LV10 dude and what's up with him, cept that give it all away, let's just say this big story just keeps unfolding and unfolding.

P.S.Get all your characters to at least LV8 before trying the goblin boss.

The only true RPG for Nintendo 64

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: July 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is the best game for any system since final fantasy. Anyone who likes final fantasy will love this game. The battle techniques are the best in any game. Instead of jumping forward, attacking and then jumping back, you attack, defend or dive for cover behind trees and rocks. Ocarina of time and majoras mask have invisible boundaries were you cant go any further (lake hyrule, the desert) In this game any where you can see you can go.

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.

One of the best RPGs

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is one of the best games for n64- by far.
So what if its extreamly hard(I've had it for two years now, not even close)?The gameplay is great!You run around and talk to people like normal games, but when you run into an enemy, you go in to a complety different mode.Based on you states,some of you four charecters can move or attack.You have a certain space to move in to attack enemys.
The storyline is complacated, the game play never gets old or repetative,over all, this is a great game.I recommend it.

A great RPG

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I really like this game. The story is interesting and well laid out, yet you have the power to make your character complete his quest by means of number of different paths - and with a choice of forming your party out of a group of potential companions with varying strengths and weaknesses. The game contains a large 3-D world that is fun to explore and is full of all sorts of hidden treasures, caves, and ruins. The combat in this game is a sort of combination of the live-action and turn-based systems. For example, on your turn you can move your characters around the combat zone and strategically position them in places to maximize their offensive or defensive abilities - but you don't control the actual "swordplay", rather you just give a command to the character to attack or cast a spell upon a particular enemy. The only gripe I had with this game was in this combat system, I wish it was more live-action oriented than turn based; but that is merely a matter of personal preference. Other than the combat, I highly recommend this game and I liked all of the other aspects of its design, programming, artwork, story, and play.

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