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Decline downwards somewhat....

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: January 31, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I loved the first Vandal Hearts and really wanted to see if they would follow that game's story. The characters in this game though seem a little uninspired, and thus the game feels a little tedious.

I guess it is called 2 to capitalize off the original. The only common thing is the battle system. A great thing they did is make your armor and swords attached to your body. When you wear copper armor you will see your character wear it. Battles though get tough. Real tough. DO u like being outnumbered 5 to 5092509258902? I don't.

The difficulty makes it tough. I returned it after a month or two. The story is pretty good though. You get to meet up with some friends from the past. The main character is absolutely awesome. He looks so cool. I would give this game 5 stars, but the tough battles and uninspired characters(a great number) detracted a couple points. Buy it though if you see it now. It should be cheap.

This is one awesome game...!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: December 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Before this game, I did not believe that another game could rival Final Fantasy Tactics in terms of storyline, gameplay, and graphics. But then I played Vandal Hearts II

This game begins with a simple plot: your main character Joseph lives in a village as a peasant forced to conform to the inequities of a Caste system in which Nobles control every aspect of peasant and middle class society life. He eventually leaves his village in the middle of a very tragic event. The story instantly becomes much more than that, but I won't go into detail.

This game features a dual-turn battle system, which, to my knowledge, is previously unprecedented in strategy role-playing games . This makes it so that each enemy moves at the same time as each of your characters do. This makes the game much more fun and challenging, and it causes you to have to think strategically when planning each of your moves; you have to be able to anticipate how the character will attack you and plan your movements and attacks accordingly. This gets harder as the game progresses because the enemies will use a greater variety of weapons and skills. You might have to spend some battles outside of the main quest getting used to this new system, but it is an awesome experience. (I think they used more blood than really necessary, though. Sure, when they get slashed to death and die they have to bleed, but not THAT much!)

Also, the game gets rid of the job system featured in Final Fantasy Tactics. Instead, your weapons and armor give you all of your stats, abilities and techniques. You can equip up to two weapons on a character (Your shield counts as one of those weapons), with the exception of certain ones. Different weapons give you different attacks and special techniques.Armor determines your movement in battle. Heavy armor gives you a great deal of HP. Light vests give you less HP, but you can move farther and through grass. Wing armor gives you little HP, but you have amazing mobility and can move to great heights and over any surface.

The graphics are not the greatest. The pictures of the characters during dialogue are kind of strange-looking, and others are downright ugly. The character sprites don't look nearly as good as in Final Fantasy Tactics, but hey, graphics don't make the game, right?

Overall, this is one of the greatest games I own for PlayStation -- the others being Star Ocean 2 and possibly Final Fantasy Tactics. Anyone who is a fan of strategy RPGs or just RPGs in general should have this.

A Tale of Betrayel

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: December 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

When I first seen this game, I purchased it on the spot for the sole fact alone that I loved the first game. When I got home to play it a day later I was instantly hooked. The game is full of alot of political intrigue, and the story is very deep and moving.

You follow Joshua who is a young boy living on the land of a rich person, whose daughter likes him. Adele, the Baron's daughter, plays with Joshua all the time, when the Baron, and Josh's father both disapprove. To set up Joshua, the Baron's Advisor brings Joshua to the Manor and forces him to fight Adele's grandfather, killing him, and causing Adele to find the scene, and hate Joshua. Joshua is forced to leave his home, and thus the adventure truely begins.

The story is very deep and moving, as Joshua and Adele's stories take shape, and they are pushed together and pulled apart over and over again. The battle system is alot more flexible than Vandal Hearts and alot more strategy is needed to beat all the monsters. Now, when you move, a monster moves at the same time, meaning you sometimes will have to guess where that monster will move and anticipate it's move.

The menu system in towns and on the world map has still been kept in use, but it cuts all the [garbage] out of a game, and leaves you heading in the direction you are supposed to. There is no confusion on where to go here, like in other games.

Overall this game is great, and if you love alot of reading, and a great story then I suggest you find a copy of this great game as soon as you can!

Chrono Cross

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 37
Date: November 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I was really dissapointed with this game. The game play went ok, but there were wayyyy too many characters in the game. It reminded me of Final Fantasy too much. I think that the game designers were Final Fantasy programmers on a severe amount of Heroin.

This game can be sssooo boring sometimes!!!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: October 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game has a good story line but the exposition in between the battles can be just a little too wordy. Too much exposition to put in a game can make the game a little boring. The cool thing about this game is that when you strike a bad guy or a creature, blood comes out!^-^

Don't waste your money!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 16
Date: July 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game because I really like RPG's, BIG mistake! This isn't a true RPG this is a story game, This game is boring, the game is one big video and the only part you have in it is the battles that are annoying and don't have that something that games like Final Fantasy has, you also get to make the OCCASIONAL decision for the hero. The weapons are basic and boring with the only variation being in the stats and spells. The graphics are terrible, I've seen better graphics on a SNES!

The music is resonible but a bit repeditive with not much variation from song to song. The story is boring with the biggest twist being a traitor and a war. The story also jumps without much explanation, and as usual everyone is in love with the main character or his friends.

My suggestion is don't buy this game, wasting money on lollies will give you longer enjoyment! It looks like Konami have made another terrible RPG. If you like RPG's stick to SquareSoft and the Final Fantasy series.

Take my word for it, this RPG isn't one you would buy.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: July 02, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I'm sorry to say, but this game is just awful. The characters are bland and do not develop through the game. The plot lacks any intersting twists, and the graphics are just bad. Also, there is no variety in mission objectives, I's just "Kill all enemies". Take my word for it, this game is just not interesting.

Vandel Hearts 2 Another Dumb sequil

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 12
Date: June 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I've allways said the only series where the sequil wasn't worse then the orginial was the FF series, and VH/VH2 is no exception. I enjoyed the orignial VH so figured I would try the second one. I was very confused by the battle system, even though a plus is that it became very difficult for you to win battles now because of the constantly moving char's. The job system was very hard to get the hang of and had nothing I found immensly rewarding to intregue me enough to work with my jobs. Plus the fact that the magic was very low scale (even less then VH 1) and that the job class made no sence just made me dislike this game. If you want to play a RPG/strategy game. Try VH1 or Final Fantasy Tatics. This isn't worth it.

fun but trickey

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: June 23, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is great, except for a few spots. For instance, you learn special attacks when you use a weapon enough, and are able to equip that attack on other weapons as well. That is good in theory. But say that you learned that attack with an axe. You can only equip that attack on other axes, so basically you are stuck using an axe the entire game if you want that special attcak. I think that is ridiculous. Other than that, the game is great.

A great sequel

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: June 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

My first Playstation RPG/Strategy game was Vandal Hearts, and I immediately fell in love with it. I loved the job system, the cool armor and weapons, the items, the twisted storyline, everything. Now with Vandal Hearts 2, I can relive that amazing experience. The game leaned more toward the Final Fantasy Tactics-style gameplay (which is definitely not a negative), but there are some very cool and unique changes - this time around, you move while the enemy moves. This throws in a whole new element of strategy, as you can predict where the enemy will move and attack that spot as they reach it. There is a ton of armor and weapons at disposal, and another small feature I like is the ability to choose to enter random battles. There are some small quirks, however, such as the map being slightly bigger, and the camera angles are a bit cumbersome, but those minor details don't lessen the 5 stars rating this game deserves.

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