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An Awesome RPG that was sadly overlooked.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 16 / 17
Date: July 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game was one of the most unique titles ever to appear on the old SNES. It was the sequel to an RPG called Uncharted Waters, and both of the games were based on sailing. Now, other games such as Pirates Gold attempted this sort of thing, but none of them did it this well.

As it starts, you have a choice of six characters to play, and each of them has his or her own unique storyline. Their stories will often intertwine with other characters' stories. For example, one of the characters has a grudge against Portugal, and if you choose the character who is from Portugal, you will eventually have to fight her. As a second example, one of the characters becomes a rich merchant, so another character who is in serious debt might appear and ask to borrow money. The different characters even have their own theme music when sailing.

The game is also very true-to-life as far as the layout of the world. If you have a real map or world atlas, you can also use it for this game--the game's map is that accurate. Its placement of cities, and even the latitude and longitude, are completely correct.

Another cool feature of this game is that you can control how your character develops. Fighting, for the most part, is optional, not mandatory. You can even avoid pirate attacks simply by keeping your fleet small. You can be an adventurer, a pirate, a merchant, a privateer... All sorts of things. You don't simply choose one of these occupations in the beginning, but you become one based on your actions in the game. If you sail around attacking merchant fleets, you become known as a pirate (you will also cause the countries that those ships come from to become angry, and they might send out battle fleets to sink you). If you become rich by selling and trading, your reputation as a merchant will spread. If you sail all around, finding artifacts and discovering hidden lands, you'll be known as an adventurer.

The game also has a huge selection of ships to choose from, and if you buy them new instead of used, the ships are completely customizable. You get to choose the model, the material the ship's made from, how much space there will be for cargo, guns, and bunks for the crew, and, of course, the name. You have to manage cargo to trade, food and water for your crew, gunpowder for your cannons, lumber for ship repairs on the fly, etc. You can also improve your relations with the different countries around you. For example, when you become rich, try investing money in a port owned by a particular country. The more you do this, the more that country will like you. Also, investing in a port's shops will allow that shop to produce higher quality merchandise. Investing in shipyards will help the shipyards build better ships, and you might be able to unlock the ultimate ships in the game by doing this.

The graphics are not very impressive because of this being an SNES game. They are about on par with Final Fantasy IV. But, graphics are not the issue with a game like this. The sheer uniqueness of it makes it stand out. Unfortunately, it was overshadowed because it came out in the days of Chrono Trigger and the like. If you can still find this game, though, get it. This is an excellent game that certainly deserves a look.

The best snes game ever!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is simply the best game on any system below at least the PS1. Although other reviews have done a great job at explaining the game unless you've played it you can never really understand how great it is. I check at least a few times a year in hopes that a sequel will be released for the PS2 which would fix the only possible problem I could see anyone having with the game, the graphics are not the best (SNES)

Best Video Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This video game is the best that I have ever played (it even beats out Master of Orion 2). The graphics aren't impressive, but the sheer size of the game is amazing. You can play the game 100 times and each time it will be different. I got this game over 10 years ago and I still play it every few months.

Another Gem in the Crown of Koei!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This was by far the best game Koei ever came out with. Never have there been a game that I could go back to again and again and still find hours and hours of enjoyment!!!! The only sad thing is that Koei still havent made another one like this. Maybe some day Koei or another game company will come out with another game like this.

best game ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Koei need to get off their butts and make a sequel to this game.
Every once in a long while I check their web page hoping to see that they have released another installment of the Uncharted Waters series.
I still pull this game out and play it, and i've had it for six years.

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game. I had the original Uncharted Waters and bought this one when I found out it came out. It was really hard to find and I got the last one the store had. It is a lot better than the first UW in which you have a choice of characters, the graphics are a little better, and the game play is just great. I always waited for more to be released but none came to this country. There are in fact more of the series but never translated to US. They were on PS1 i believe, not sure if a PS2 one ever came out. Now there is UNcharted Waters Online that was released and I preordered it for the US release and it keeps getting pushed back....i.e. it was supposed to be released in 2005 and several date changes its sometime this summer in 2006. GameStop's website is the only place I saw that you can preorder this. Maybe if enough people show interest in it, it will be released here. I was spoiled with this game and now all the other ship and pirate games are sub par, but Pirates of the Caribbean is great, just like a UW sequel. Only problem is it has a lot of bugs because Disney bought an already designed game, Sea Dogs 2, and slapped the movie's name on it to be released at the same time as the movie and it wasn't quite debugged yet. I had it for xbox and the only problems i had were I just would save when i arrived and left each port because the further you get in the game it likes to freeze. I did buy it for PC but you can't use a controller with it and I am not good with the keyboard controls. Look for a sequel to this when the new movie comes out sometime this year.

The best game I ever played

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I enjoyed this game so much when I was younger. It is really perfect in every aspect. There is fighting, trading, dating, adventure, pirates, royalty, etc... I check all of the time to see if it has been released in PS2 or similar format. I have yet to play a more enjoyable game and hope to see it released on an updated scale at some point in the future.

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