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Amazing!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: December 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I had a lot of fun playing this game. Though when people say it's like playing the anime, I think it plays the manga more then the anime. Lots of parts in the beggining of the game fallow the manga more then the anime.
I found the game play exelent. Though controling Al would have been better, he didn't seem to fight every time I commanded him to. There are plenty of things to transmute in the game too, which makes it so fun. The plot is so rich, I love to play this game over and over again. Though there are only 7 chapters (levels) in the game, which makes it fairly short. It's very quick and can be beaten in less then a day. I do dislike how they change some events that happened in the anime/manga in order to fit the game's story line best, but the game is still great. My only problem with it is getting a good score in the boss battles. They take quite a while and are bothersome. Other then that, a great game and a must buy for any fan of Fullmetal Alchemist.

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I liked this game a lot. This one is a lot better than the first. I enjoy the cut scenes inbetween certain parts. You can also save them and watch them later. Like a small episode with missing pieces. But it is a lot of fun. And you get a dvd with two episodes on it!

Very fun game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I loved playing this game, and it took me awhile to beat it, considering I had to go school all the time. But if you make a day for it, you could finish it all in that day, since the game is pretty short.

However, it is very fun to me, I loved the animating scenes and dialouge! You don't hear to many fans of the english dub, but I'm one them. Sure, in some lines Vic went a little overboard, but I love his voice for Ed. He's got the sorrow, anger etc for the character, and even Alphonse's voice was very good, I just can not see anyone doing Alphonse voice instead of Aaron Dismuke. Very good actor to be so young, wish I had that talent. Anyways on the game ratings...

Story- The storyline was pretty cool, in somewhat of a way. I liked the many people they meet up with in this game. My favorites being (Winry, Rose, Arlen etc...)Though the storyline chapters are short, I wish it would have been longer. 4/5

Sound- LOVE it, this was the main thing I was looking forward to when getting this game. I would always get happy when I approach a cut-scene or dialouge box. 5/5

Graphics- They're pretty good, kind of like Kingdom Hearts kind of thing. But I don't really pay attention to this kind of stuff. 3.5/5

Gameplay- Almost like every action game, the fighting does go on and on. I'm really not a fan of the boss fights, and that was what was kind of getting on my nerves. But its part of every game...so I can't complain too much. 4/5

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Overall this game was very good, and fun to play! I really enjoyed it and since I'm a big FMA fan, if they ever were to bring anymore FMA games to the US, I most likely would buy it!

great game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Great game for FMA fans.Lots of transformations,when the movies play its awesome,2 episodes from Return to Yock Island,plus the cool action and graphics.Its worth it,and now its more worth it since its for $20.

FullMetal Alchemist2, Curse of the Crimson Elixir

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I enjoyed FullMetal Alchemist2 (FMA), Curse of the Crimon Elixir. I'm a die-hard RPG player, but had never played any of the FullMetal games. I bought FMA, Broken Angel, and liked it so much, that I searched Amazon for one similar. That's how I came across Crimson Elixir. I highly recommend FMA Crimson Elixir, and FMA Broken Angel.

4.5 Stars - Minor flaws, otherwise great game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: August 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

fma2 is better the fma1 because most of fma2 has the same things as the show and you can make a lance,sword, and hammer out of nothing.Also you dont need to charge your alchemy bar to make thing.

Fullmetal Alchemist

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I purchased this product for my 14 year old daughter. She is a huge Anime fan and a fan of this show in particular. She was very excited to recieve it and has spent several hours enjoying it. The game has good art and graphics. It follows a good story line and stays true to the shows characters. She did say that this game is easier then the first one. I'm not sure if that is due to the game or her being more adept at the game since learning on the first one. Overall, this is a good game and not just a blood and guts slasher thing. I recommend it.

Not Bad for a Fan...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I agree with the rest of the reviews that grant this game a 4 star rating. I thought it was fun, even when I played through it a second time. I could listen to the voice actors for this series all day long, and even Chris Sabat seemed well-adjusted to his part. (He does a good Armstrong, but that's only because the over-the-top and outlandish voice he normally performs actually fits the character for once) I was extremely happy that they'd returned for the game.

Fans of the series will enjoy at least one run-through. The characters are kept fairly true to the originals. Even Ed's line, "It's hotter than a couple of Chimeras mating in a boiler room" seemed right on par with his character. Riza remained stoic and slightly trigger happy and Roy was once again given all the cool, if poorly timed, entrances. Armstrong was, well... Armstrong... and Hughes was, as always, the doting father. The only character complaint I had was how often Alphonse called Ed "Ed" instead of "brother". I realize the Japanese way of addressing ones siblings is different than other cultures, so you could argue they should've changed it to match the culture when they dubbed it into English. However, I missed "brother" coming from Al's voice and it was strange that even though they kept it mostly true to the translation in the series, they would change such a detail for the game.

The parts of this game I absolutely loved had a lot to do with the cut scenes. The animation was smooth and definitely cleaner looking, but the character design didn't deviate like some newer OVA's/video games do. There was plenty of humor to go along with the story, once again a nice touch for those who like consistency like I do. Though the plot was a little weak, but tolerable, I found that the original characters didn't take away from the pre-existing ones. An earlier review called Crowley, "Sephiroth's long lost twin brother", but as a female fan of FFVII, I had NO problems with that.

The other main point I loved was getting the option to add Mustang, Hawkeye or Armstrong to your party for a short sequence. I did all three just to see how it went and all of them had their own distinctive differences. There was a small area where you could transmute a bulldozer which could actually hurt your enemies as well as your party members. Running over Roy a few times was more fun than it should have been... but you can't tell me Ed wouldn't have done the same thing. =) In fact, one of my complaints about the game was that you could only control Ed. I hope in possible future installments, they would add at least Alphonse as a controllable character.

Despite how much I liked it, however, I have some complaints. Number one on my list has to be the music. FMA received more than one award for its musical score and it deserved every one of them. From the series to the movie, the music is incredible. It's easily one of the best soundtracks I've ever heard. The game doesn't come CLOSE. I had my hopes up when the opening began playing "Ready Steady Go", but it only went down hill from there. Honestly, the score sounds like it was composed in someone's basement with a cheap keyboard in about an hour. The themes repeat so often, I was beginning to wonder if they'd only written four or five songs for the entire game. It was very cheesy... and very disappointing for a series that set the bar so high. For such an abrasive, annoying soundtrack in a game, I would normally just turn the sound down and listen to my own, but the voice actors, for the most part, made leaving the volume up worth the torture.

Another problem I had was on the technical side. The automatic targeting system was flawed and I often found myself punching thin air while my adversary beat me mercilessly from behind. The bad guys, particularly the bosses, seemed to be allowed many more combos too, making a couple of the boss fights exponentially harder than others. Personally, the fight in the cemetery was five or six times harder for me than the final boss... and that was with plenty of leveling the second time around. I also had a bit of a tough time transmuting the four weapons to switch between them. I don't think it was my controller, but I'm not entirely sure. Every other command went through fine except L1.

The graphics weren't bad. The still shots seemed a little simple for such a game, but I would rather see their expressions drawn unmoving on the two-dimensional foreground than see them poorly rendered on the playable characters themselves. Call me crazy, but I don't think the digital artists seemed up to the challenge.

All-in-all, like I said, fans of the series will enjoy the game just to see your favorite characters in a fresh adventure. As a stand-alone video game though, I'm not sure I would recommend it, especially if you haven't seen the series. It reminded me of a less-interactive Kingdom Hearts 1 with worse music. You can beat it in 7-10 hours so it felt like a bit of a waste of money once it was all done, so I would recommend buying at a discount, or renting it.

FMA 1 was just an action game. This one's like actually playing the series.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 26 / 26
Date: July 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Earlier in 2005, we received Fullmetal Alchemist and the Broken Angel, which was a little game(that was actually released in Japan 2 years ago!) based on the popular anime/manga series that was a decent enough action-RPG. In it, Edward and Alphonse Elric went through an original adventure in which they met with a young girl named Armony. Despite the fact that it was fun enough(if using alchemy to turn a mailbox into a mini-tank to blow things up is wrong, I don't wanna be right), it was still a bit lacking.

Enter Fullmetal Alchemist 2: The Curse of the Crimson Elixer. The game itself actually feels much more like the anime than the first game did. The graphics now sport a cel-shaded look that perfectly captures the feel of the TV show, the in-game cutscenes actually feature voice-overs from the cast(not just the anime scenes), many more characters from the series such as Winry, Hughes, Rose, and Scar make appearances, and the game even has the TV show's 2nd opening theme, Ready Steady Go. When it comes to capturing the TV series, FMA2 gets an A+.

Combat is also a bit more fun. Ed has plenty more combos to wreck damage upon his enemies, and this time around also learns a set amound of weapons to make that allow him to do much more damage. You'll also actually have to switch between them, one weapon will actually be more useful than another. There's also many more things to transmute, and this time around there's no stupid gauge like the first game. Ed will automatically learn new transmutations for objects as he levels up, for example, he can create a bomb, then turn it into sticks of dynamite. The plot can essentially be divided into 2 parts. The first half of the game is a basic retelling of Hiromu Arkawa's series, such as the Cornello arc and the infamous incident with Shou Tucker. It's the second half of the game where the real plot comes into play, as Ed and Al battle mysterious monsters called Golems in their hometown of Resembol. It's this, as well as an encounter with a mysterious girl, that prompts them to investigate. Their search eventually leads them to Jack Crowley, who looks like the long-lost twin brother of Final Fantasy 7's Sephiroth. The guy's a bit off the deep end, and his goal to bring back a loved one has wound up creating the most dangerous threat our two alchemists have faced yet. It all ties in with a mysterious Crimson Elixir(hence the title).

The problems? Well, first off, the game is possibly shorter than the first one. It consists of about 7 "chapters" and each one takes about an hour at the most to complete. Al is also still a pain to control with the R1 commands, and often winds up getting low on health, leaving you to either forced to use healing items on him or just let him be knocked out(however, I've read that the next game is going to fix this be actually letting him be playable, so there's hope).

Despite these shortcomings, FMA2 is still a lot of fun. Fans may also want to check the bonus DVD, which contains episodes 27-28 of the anime(since they haven't been released on TV yet). With games like FMA2: Curse of the Crimson Elixir, we may not just be seeing an increase of quantity of anime games in the US, but quality is well. Definitely worthwhile to a fan.

Fullmetal Alchemist 2 Exceeds the First.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: July 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is far better than the first one. In terms of graphics, the game far exceeds "Broken Angel" due to the fact that the characters are now cell shaded and look more like the anime versions. The game play is also better because you are given many more melee attacks then in the first where all you could do was use your arm blade. In this game, Ed can kick, punch, dodge and still pull off all his famous alchemic works. I highly recommend this game to anyone who is a Fullmetal Alchemist fan and anyone else who as ever wanted to perform alchemy on anything or anyone.

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