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Grandia 2 is a grand game indeed.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Absolutely wonderful. I have never played a game that has tugged my heart strings with a plot like this outside of the Final Fantasy series. The graphics are not really all that good, but who needs it when you have a great battle system like Grandia 2. It is very refrshing to be able to sneak up on enemies like in Xenogears and the visual effects of spells are top-notch as well.
The story begins as Geohound Ryudo travels to Carbo Village to escort a Songstress of Granas to a holy ceremony at a near-by tower. Now, Ryudo is as cynical as a person can get; a heretic who hates both God (Granas in this game) and women. Elena is the songstress and she and Ryudo immediately take a disliking to each other. At the Ceremony, Elena is possessed by the Wings of Valmar (Valmar is the devil) that can take the form of a beautiful yet emotional girl named Millenia. Millenia could be able to take over Elena's body and soul at will! Ryudo and Elena begrudingly travel together to the St. Heim Papal State to speak to his Holiness Pope Zera. On the way, they team with a boy named Roan with a troubled past, a man-beast named Mareg who seeks the death of Ryudo's long-lost evil brother Melfice, and an Automata (android if you will) named Tio who seeks the meaning of being free and listens only to Mareg. They also defeat all of the parts of Valmar in unrealistic battles. Pope Zera suggests that Ryudo and his party find the sword Lord Granas used to defeat Valmar in The Battle of Good and Evil, the Granasbar, and destroy Valmar's heart with it. Along the way, Roan revela that he is a prince of the People of Darkness, Mareg gets his revenge on Melfice, Elena questions her faith in Lord Granas, and Ryudo discovers what it is like to live life to the fullest. I won't spoil the ending for those of you not yet finished. A solid buy with top-notch voice-acting and amazing plot.

Ubisoft gave it their all

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is a classic RPG. It has a great story with excellent characters. The powering up system it has is rare. The system is very in depth and lets you do what you want with your weapons, items, and characters. It doens't have the best graphics of todays standards, but is an excellent RPG that you must own. One more thing the game is fairly long and will take about 30 hours if you power up.

Grandia II

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have Grandia II for both PS2 and Dreamcast and have enjoyed this game imensly. Since i'm a younger, not so advid gamer, it could be challenging at times.

The graffics are great compared to alot of RPGS that came out around the time grandia II did and most of the music seemed to fit the game. I noticed that many of the scenes look the same in for example, Roan's fathers castle where you go into the dungeon-like area, and it's easy to get confused on which way to go next if you have to stop playing for some reason.

The charricters were all great and felt like friends but Millenia wasn't used enough in my opinion.

The battle scenes were exellent in graffics and very intence during boss battles making you feel as though your life depended on defeating them.

Yet another Rip Off

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: July 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Again just like final fantasy VII dont spend tons of money when you can get the very same game for only 12.99 at gamestop.

I dont understand why people post this for 50 and 60 bucks..
Its an old game, yet a very good game.

If you wanna save money go to a game store and buy these hard to find games, cause on here they just want your money.

NO FINAL FANTASY BUT STILL GOOD.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you have the choice between this and Final Fantasy X. I would definitely tell you to go with FFX but after FFX is over and you want something along the same lines as it but don't mind the plot being a bit less compelling by all means give this one a try. As for the graphics there's not going to any big improvement to the graphics on PS2 version than the Dreamcast version like some other people said. It's basically a direct port of the Dreamcast version with a new opening and ending movie. By the way, in case you didn't know you can pick up the Dreamcast version from here for $... if you still have a Dreamcast.

Bad

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 24
Date: May 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is just bad.That is all i have to say.

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5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: January 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This Game is my Fav. game out of many games I have played. The graphics rock my socks. Even though I have only played it for Dreamcast I am sure that the graphics will be 10 times better. I must get for any TRUE RPGer

3.5 stars, fun and brisk gameplay, bad graphics.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: February 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I just finished with Final Fantasy X, and was looking for another RPG, and seems Grandia II is the only next Gen RPG that is a good and real rpg (A lot of games claim to be RPG, but they are really action adventure games).

The battles are brisk, there isn't a lot of frustrating like some other RPGs (i.e. you don't have to constantly looking for enemies to fight to level up.) There is no random battles, which kinda bogged down FFX. The characters seems cute and fun in typical Japanese Anime kinda of way.

However, the reason I am giving it a low score is because the graphics are simply horrible. I am not expecting graphics on the level of FFX, but The character models are not nearly as good as character models in Final Fantasy 9 which is on PS One. The character models are tiny, can't see any details. Granted, FF9 have prerendered backgrounds, but in Overworld, FF9 do have real time 3-D enviroments, and the 3-D enviroments in Grandia 2 are simply not as good looking as the FF9's 3-D overworld, which is unforgivable, considering, Grandia is on PS2.

The people at Game Arts may have good artists and good gameplay designers, but they need to learn some more programming skills. Right now, their programming skills are not good enough.

this is not the dc version!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: January 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Stay away from this game! It is not the same beautiful fun game that came out on the Dreamcast. It suffers from a bloched rush job syndrome. The beautiful graphics are now gone. The really cool looking spell animations are also missing from this version. Also slowdown is a majior problem. Get this for DC.

Just like the PSX Version

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: February 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I just brought this game and what first hit me was that it is
just like the PSX version. The graphics are a bit "softer" and rounder but other than that it's gameplay and style is not much off. I am bout 1/4 of the way through (2hrs) and just brought the strategy guide. From looking through the guide this game doe snot seem to have much to offer in length or replay.

I brought this looking for something like FFX (graphic, gameplay, and storywise) and it does not even come close. Still it's not a bad game, I'd wait till the price drops some before buying it though.

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