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Orphen great Action-Adventure Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 21
Date: November 04, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Orphen great game, story animation, etc... This game is NOT a Role-playing game. This game is an Action-Adventure. If you like Zelda for the 64 (which also is a Action-Adventure) you will like this game as well. I find a lot of people complaining that the game has these animation parts that won't shut up or stop. Will the thing is, that's the way you get a good story. The game does need to work on a few problems, but those problems are only very noticeable to people who enjoy games like: Mario 64. This game is only for anime fans for the series or people who like anime. This is a game to buy if you like: Great stories, power ball fighting, great action-adventure games, and anime style drawings. Activision has really out done it self for a launch title.

A fun game for anime fans

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: December 31, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is actually very fun. I don't know what all the other reviewers are talking about. You don't like that there is so much story? Well too bad! This is supposed to be game about story! It is based on an anime after all. The battles leave something to be desired, but like I said, this game is about story. The battles are just meant to be fill ins for all those gamers who would get bored like most of you people are. My only complaint is the voice acting. I think that Orphen's voice suits him but that's about it. If only they had Japanese voices with English subtitles.... Oh well, you can't have everything.

This game kicks!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is awesome! Although the game was a little rushed (there were some glitches in the game) it has a great storyline. This game has three different jouneys to take and it is great. The boses aren't impossible and that makes it kind of fun. This game is a good RPG game and anyone who likes RPG's should at least rent it. Orpen has many powerful spells and this game has a few hard puzzles.

Orphen - Finds a Home...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: October 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I loved this games real time combat. Very quickly paced game where the characters are very easily controlled. An excellent RPG game that will keep you intrigued throughout. Orphen has found a home.

a pretty good rpg game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: December 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

orphen:Scion of Sorcery is a pretty dern good rpg game i mean the graphics arent all that good.Okay here are my reviews for this game.Graphics8.5/10,gameplay10/10.and the sound9.5/10.So all in all i would give this a game a 9.5/10.And what i have to say for this game it is totally superb.This game is good for children and adults.So this is practically a got to get game.~merry christmas~

Great

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game,but, everybody thinks that this is a rpg game but, it's not,this is a adventure game,great for anime fans who had seen the serie about orphen ,like me.Other people thinks that this game is bad but, if they see the serie they'll like it.It's like dragon ball final bout it's a bad game but everybody like it because it's about dragon ball.This game is great for anime-fans and for a real player.

good but not great

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: October 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

a good game but not a great game. activision's Orpen: Scion of Sorcery is probably the best rpg out there for the PS2 so far. Great graphics and a great story line makes this the rpg choice for the PS2. the only thing that makes this game not a great game is that the battle system is not quite of a rpg type. the game feels and plays almost like zelda. this game is recommended to all PS2 owners who loves rpg but if action/rpg is not ur type then dont even think about buying this game. the best thing about this game is that it has anime in it(yes i said anime). so if u like anime and a good game then go out and buy this game right now. trust me u wont be dissapointed.

Orphen: Scion of Sorcery

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: December 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I do not know what all of you guys are complaining about, but I enjoyed this game. I have not finished with the third destiny yet, but I am almost finished. I bet that the reason that all of you are complaining is that you never REALLY finished the game. If you enjoy this game I know that you will like Sommoner as well. I thought that this game had a lot of good things going for it. There is also strategy in it because you have to use strategy to fight the really big monsters or you wouldn't get past them. My one complaint is that you need more save points that is why I gave it four stars. Sometimes if I got killed during a fight it took me ten minutes to get back to the same point until I figured out that you could restart the battle agian. I hope that any of you who are planning on buying this find this review helpful.

It's pretty good. At this price give it a shot.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: January 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This really isn't all that bad a game. Sure, it's nothing like most console RPG's--it seems that most complaints have been that it's not just like Final Fantasy, Chrono Cross, or anything else Square has made or been copied. As someone else said, it's more like playing a Zelda game or a Castlevania game, where you are doing as much platforming as fighting. Admittedly, a lot of the items seem pretty useless and it can be annoying to watch the same long cutscene fifty times until you manage to beat the boss--something that can be avoided by making a change to your setup and which resets the battle.

Like most dubs, there is of course something lacking. The cutscenes can look pretty ugly, but that can be made up for in part by the good anime cutscenes. The battle system could have used a little more interactivity to it, but it is not the huge problem that other reviewers have made it out to be.

The game's major problem is that it is too linear and short in terms of actual gameplay. If I remember correctly, I managed to beat the game in about 15 hours. I've just started to replay it after not touching it for nearly six months. If you don't have a problem with linear games then this won't be a problem for you. Be warned that there are no side quests, no mini games, and while things like the diary entries and enemy list make for an interesting extra, you can survive without them.

One more thing now that the anime is out. All you people that hated the characters in this game try watching the anime--just make sure you're watching the subtitled version. The characters for the game are just about right based on the anime--Cleao (Cleo) is somewhat annoying and bossy, Majic (Magus) is not bad with magic but looks up to Orphen, Orphen is dead on, and Dortin and Volcan are pretty close as well.

Give it a shot. If I hadn't played this game I would have never tried Zelda or Castlevania.

More Mistake-ridden than Stupid; a Nice Attempt from Shade

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: February 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This was my first PS2 game...I bought it two weeks before I even got my PS2. I remember looking at the super hi-res graphics in the pics (it both looked more impressive than it was, and I never played a Dreamcast by this point), and practically dreaming about it. While my every hope and dream wasn't met with the revolutionary game I was expecting, this game was a nice unique adventure that I still occasionally play today.

This game was IMO easily better than Evergrace, Eternal Ring, and even Summoner, the other three launch PS2 games, and I liked it more than some that have come out since. The game isn't stupid like many people say; it was just shrouded in a large number of bad decisions for the overall production. The graphics were nice, the battle system inventive, the plot decent, and the voice acting good.

The game's story involves a time-lapse in which Orphen is shot into a time and particular story, and when it's over, he is shot back to the begining, only to play through another. While remembering that something is odd between times he goes back and starts over, his memory of those he met, the places he's been, or the searching for the artifact called the Crystal Egg (which can control time), soon no longer exist, and similar plot twists occur in the three scenarios.

While not as linear as Final Fantasy X, it's also nowhere near as epic, nor does it make as much sense. Really the plot, while with some nice original moments, really seems like an excuse to have a game starring the decently famous character: the Sorcerous Stabber Orphen. The ending is pretty weak, despite the gorgeous music during the big end-credit sequence (there are two kinds of end credit sequences), and the writting of some scenes is simply terrible. Not to mention, there are just too many parts where something just happens to go wrong or right, and as such, things happen the way they do...which is sometimes the way they just happened, only now again, but ever so slightly different. However, due to the game's shortness (about 12 hours altogether), if you can tolerate a chunk of cheezy lines and repeditive or silly sequences, this game isn't much to bear.

The voice work during the cutscenes is great, however. Sure, they're all very, very annoying, but it's because the original writers only partially understood the true character of the Orphen anime saga. The voices are full of life, energy, emotion, and Quinton Flynn being chosen to play Orphen's role was one of the most brilliant moments of game-voice casting, ever! The character movement during the game isn't anywhere as nice...the big thing about it is that when a character is knocked over, the common thing for them to do isn't to stand back up, but to reverse-fall. Moments of almost unbearable tackiness start to clutter up any feelings of reality the game offers.

The game is, apart from the now outdated graphics and terrible movement, a rather believable and entertaining fantasy epic. This mostly comes because the ways the graphics are handled. The polygon counts in almost every other launch title was higher than in this, but the colors are vibrant, saturated and glowing, as well as the lighting very true-to-life, and the art direction rather decent. The monster battles are very cinematic in feel as unless hit by an attack, no enemy or ally HP display is projected onto the screen, while the camera follows the action very flashily, full of rapid camera-cuts, fast motion, and tons of flying effects. And, my favorite graphical touch by far: the sun, when looked upon, shines that great line of light that just barely misses hitting your eye perpendictularly, like in the movies...a great zenith, nice color temperature, and nice shadow work too.

Truthfully, while I love this game, I do not recommend it to anyone except the most patient of gamers. However, since it has so many of my memories in it, and it's well acted out and well colored (and that I'm trying to write an Orphen movie, inspired to be a sequel to the series), I know I'm going to be playing this game for years to come...despite that I know it's just me. I REALLY wish that they would either remake this title, or create another Orphen game (sequel, or side-story), since this game had shining potential, and nice imagination. If only the testers were able to mouth opinions as well as say simply: "yup, when I hit the square, I jump."

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