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OK, for an ogre battle

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 139
Date: April 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Wow! I kind of think that this was really good. Maybe I'll find something tomake this better though.

This game KICKS!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 12
Date: August 07, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is the best installment of the ogre battle series I have seen in a long time as you battle your way through the game comquering new lands you form alliances and and new armies all together this truly is an awsome game!

The RPG/Strategy game of the year.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 17
Date: September 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Ogre Battle 64: Persons of Lordly Caliber is the highly anticipated sequel to Ogre Battle and Tactics Ogre for the Super Nintendo game console. In this installment you play as Magnus Gallant, a commander who sees many evils done to innocent civilians by the very people he works for and vows to fight this injustice. By taking command of him and other key players, you can build up armies and your characters, who may evolve many times during the course of the game. Your characters may also be aligned to good or evil, depending on how you react to certain situations throughout the game. With its beautifal 3D landscape, this installment looks to be the best one yet.

Ogre Battle series is the best!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 23 / 25
Date: October 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Finally, another RPG on the N64, unfortunately games are scarce enough on the N64, RPG are even less, only a handful. Thanks to Atlus (who does a great translation job by the way) RPG gamers can cheer now!!! Ogre Battle started on the SNES, its a great strategy games involving organizing your troops, it is also considered an RPG because your characters level up, can change classes and gain special abilities. It is a very deep and involving game, finish it once can take up to 50 hours, depending on how thorough you are. Many secrets, characters, branching story and multiple ending, I played the original game over 5 times.

Ogre Battle 64 is the sixth chapter in the series, most of the music and sounds are the same, so fans of the first one would be happy. Story is also excellent, great plot but mostly involving war and revolution, although nothing special, but the characters really draws you in, You even encounter many familiar people you've met in the first game. Well, I liked most everything about this game, but the gameplay was a little different, the maps are small and really ugly, I guess to compensate for the tiny maps your troops moves extrememly slow. Liberating castles really doesn't do anything, at least in the first one you can draw tarot cards radomly, which can add to your stat, and you can also use as special items during battle. There is also this interrupt bar you have to wait until it fills to change the troop tactics, to retreat and to use your special magic...and battles are usually not long enough for the meter to fill up so you can use the magic. Lastly the classes are mostly the same, with a few additions, and also a few missing. Overall its a good game, should satisfy those N64 owners hunger for a good strategy game, its also a good distraction for those waiting for the next Zelda later this month. My recommendation is to pick one up and enjoy it! Score: 85/100.

Well, there goes my weekend...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 23 / 26
Date: October 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

My wife bought this game for me, and although I probably wouldn't have picked it for myself, I gave it a chance. It turned out to be one of those games that is kind of tough to get into at first, but once you do, impossible to put down. This game ate up a big chunk of my time the first weekend I had it, and I play for a little while every night after work. The storyline is just amazing; It's like a good fantasy novel. I find myself playing to find out what's going to happen next. The ability to choose and answer questions that alter the story and your character's alignment really gets you involved. The battle system is really simple, and everything is explained within the game. At first, I thought I was going to get bored because you don't have a lot of control over the actual battle, but it turns out that choosing classes, formation and equipment is just as much fun. Also, there are many missions where you must dispatch other units, which adds to the strategy.

All, in all, hightly reccomended. There aren't many N64 games that have real long-term single-player value. This one does.

ONE OF THE BEST STRATEGY GAMES EVER

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: October 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the best games for the N64. In the beginning you are able to choose what your character will specilize in in the begginning. All in all, the only downer is the acasional use of strong language. It is an in depth game that only a person with a long attention span should try to tacle. With tons of different endings and the ability to train your army. This is a must have for any gamer.

Good Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: October 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game. I got it and played it for at least five hours in one long weekend. It is fun, has a good plot and requires strategy. I would buy this game.

Why would anyone give this less than 5 stars...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 40 / 43
Date: October 13, 2000
Author: Amazon User

First... any fan of the original two games including spin-offs of either (like FF tactics) will be very happy with this game. Stop reading and order it now. I'll try to explain why in a way that someone who's never played the series can understand.

This game combines elements from many different genres with classic D&D style theme. The story is very detailed and on the level with FF tactics, much more detailed than the original OB. Of course, the most important thing to consider is gameplay. So here goes.

You are in command of a growing regiment of troops that can include everything from knights, archers and wizards to dragons, other "monsters" and even the undead. You command your troops from an "overhead" position guiding units of up to 5 troops around the battle areas to take strategic positions, liberate towns and conquer your enemy.

Battle takes place when your unit meets with an enemy. This may come as a shock, but you don't directly control any of your troops in battle, they attack the enemy according to the way you previously set up the unit. For example, as battle starts initiative is automatically deterimined by row: your first row which might contain two knights launches an attack. As the first knight is swinging his sword the next knight is already moving towards his target and the rest of the battle follows suit. Thus, the battles are much more fluid when compared to the original game and most importantly the vile balance destroying tarot cards were removed and replaced with something which can be used much less.. in fact, I havn't had a chance to use it yet. Don't be worried about the lack of direct control if you havn't played the original OB, you'll find that setting up your units to fight effectively is just as rewarding, if not more so than the tedious task of choosing individual targets yourself. The possibilities are much more detailed in battle now. The grid you set your units up on is 3x3 which adds a middle row to the original front and back. As old fans know, different classes fight differently depending on which row they are in. Sometimes the number of attacks they perform is different, sometimes the attack itself will change. Obviously, the front row provides better offense and the back defense; the front row *generally*, allows for more short range and nonmagic attacks while the back row usually allows more ranged attacks to be performed.

In a game like this it's the little details that make or break the game and OB64 is just full of great little details in all things. One thing old fans will love is the suspend features. Some of the later battles can get quite long... the suspend feature lets you pause the game in the middle of battle basically and turn the system off to pick up where you left of later. Unlike a save function, you are forced to quit when you use it and the data is eliminated when you start up again so that you can't cheat. Another little thing, if you have 2 or 3 wizards in the same row in battle, they may combine their magic to create entirely new spells. In the battle and story scenes the beautiful rendered backgrounds come alive with grass blowing in the wind, little things moving in the back ground and excellent use of light and shadows on the characters. The animation is extremely excellent with small hand gestures and such being animated very explicitly. This game really has a lot of character and no flaws that come to mind. To a new comer especially, there is a little bit of a learning curve before you can truly master the game, but what game of this type doesn't require a little.. "work".. from you.

A final word about the music. Some of the music is used from the classic games but it's been given a "64" polish and sounds great still. We know the N64 isn't a CD player and I think Quest did a great job with the N64's limited sound capability. In fact the quality sounds great, the only thing I can't vouch for yet is the quality of the compositions themselves since I havn't been all that for into the game yet.

Bottom line... buy this !now! unless you have adverse reactions to RPG's/strategies. You won't be dissappointed.

This game is good but some bad things

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: October 19, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Okay lets start from the top, i rented this from blockbuster the first day they got it and right then i was a dicted to the game. It has a great plot and you mostly create your own characters. In the bigging of the game you have to answer 6 questions to chose your class (that means what you are like a warrior a witch a wizard a droll master and etc.).

Then the bad things are, that the grafics are pretty good but not the best on the market. The music is poor and the sound efics some times crakels. But that really all the bad things about it.

Every thing else is great, so if you are a RPG or a statgey fan you should get this.

This game rocks!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 30, 2000
Author: Amazon User

When I first got it, I didn't get the game, but just after a while, this game became more fun, and fun. The graphics might not be the best but the game-play makes up for that. I really didn't care about the music. I love RPG games, although I'm not really good at it.This game reqires a lot of pantiance, it's kinda slow. You need good stralagies since you have to control more than one troop.This is not a game for people that like straight action type game like streetfighter, twisted metal etc....I stronly recommend this game. Even if your not going to buy it, rent it.

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