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Good game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: October 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I liked this game. It has good graphics and music and the controls were easy to learn. It has a good story and Koudelka look pretty good. hehe!

wateva

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: October 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

the game is nice, although i haven't finished it yet(actually i just bought it a couple of days ago.)

what I really like about it is the atmosphere, it keeps you guessing, of what's coming next. that and the fact that the characters always keep you amused, since they always fight each other.

other tthan that, the game is very nicely done. it has great graphics, and gorgeous fmv's. the batle system is very simple, and very easy to learn. the characters talk in this game, which is nice for a change. finaly, the fact that the game has absolutely no money in it whatsoever (thank god, some of those game makers out there would put money even in this game) makes the game setting very beliavable.

there are only two things i could complain about. the first one being the batle speed. casting magic takes too much time, aspecially if you fight more than one character, and all of your people have weapons(the game loads each character and weapon separatly, each taking around two seconds, so do your math). the second part is the annoying battle music. these guys just couldn't live without a cheery balte theme. i think it ruins some of the suspense, and the monsters aren't as scary, when you hear "chocobo theme". if anyone knows how to get rid of the batle music, email me(dkdeathknight@yahoo)

other than that, the game is superb. i recomend it to all the people who are sick and tired of final fantasy love themes, and want to play something scary for a change. it's wel worth the (...) bucks i spent on it.

"B" for plot, "C" for personality

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Despite a few quirks that nearly drove me mad, "Koudelka" is the best console RPG I've ever played. It's the only one to even approach the intensity of a real friends, food, and dice-rolling role playing session.

The battle mechanics are a cross between the familiar Final Fantasy options and board control taken from chess. Despite the chess allusions in the game, characters can move freely within the area of the board they control but cannot move into the battle area controlled by the monsters. This was a small let down since it makes it impossible to outflank or move in behind your opponents nor can they attempt to do this to the player characters. Still, it makes it possible to position the characters so as to force the attack of the monster onto a single character.

The only real structural flaw of the game is that the inventory system is limited and once you reach the cap, you're forced to accept any new objects you find and must drop something already in inventory. Since the game doesn't allow you to simply leave the new items laying in the dirt, and requires you to carry crates full of items around in order to solve many puzzles, this gets sickeningly annoying the first time it happens and remains just as irritating throughout the remainder of the game.

The other sour note of "Koudelka" are the personalities of the main characters. To the designers' credit, three strangers who meet in an ongoing massacre really shouldn't immediately become hard and fast friends...but it seemed the views expressed by the characters during these bouts were pulled straight out of a night club in the 1990s rather than reflecting sentiments of England in the 1800s. The name dropping of historically significant artists throughout the game indicates a level of research and detail planning that seemed lacking in the personalities of the main characters, and when the mysterious medium Koudelka morphs into a whiny goth chick, it tends to throw off the feel of the game.

Despite these quirks, "Koudelka" puts the frivolous and simplistic plots produced by SquareSoft to shame, and the production quality of "Koudelka" is high enough that it makes the Final Fantasy series look shoddy in comparison. It is at last a game which can be enjoyed by those of us who successfully graduated from high school. I'll be watching for new titles from Infogrames.

Huge disappointment

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: August 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game started out with an interesting story line, then I continued to play and had flashbacks of the original Resident Evil. The battle field was a joke and the enemies were rather unoriginal. The weapons broke every five seconds and were we. The only aspect of this game that I thought had a gleam of originality was the weapon effects on status. All and all this game was a disappointment to Atari.

Loudelka

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I am 18 and I think the game is great. A little complicated, but good. The caracters are not like any other RPG. I am not an RPG fan, but this is the best one yet. Everyone who likes RPG's needs to get their hands on this game. Don't take my advice. Use your own.

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