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Clunky clunky clunky

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: January 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The combat system in this game is sad, slow and clunky. In a the modern age of better, more smooth combat systems, this one is depressingly bad. I can typically tough it out for an interesting storyline, but I had to put this one down. Definitely not recommended.

What crack were you smoking when you thought this game was good?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: June 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game after reading all of the reviews on here. I thought, wow, super, this game will be awesome. I played it for an hour and was bored....maybe this just isn't the type of game for me. Maybe I should have given it another try. Maybe it really is horrible. All I have to say is rent it. Save your money. Don't be stupid like me.

They Did it

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

They spend so much time with this game making it , trying to make it as good as it could be and they did. They only thing wrong is the slightly "blocky" movements that the main character makes when climbing or coming don off of things. Primals Exploration is amazing, it makes you feel very interested in whats coming up in the game. Primal combat system is innovative, and the graphics are some of the best I've ever seen on PS2. This game is a fantastic game and I think people who love adventure games would be foolish to pass it up.

Primal

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I like the demons and I always liked a dark, cryptic type of games. And well this is one I had my eye on for a while. Like Diablo and Devil May Cry, I liked the type of games where you are only you against legions of enemies. And well I give this game a 5 stars cause I wanted too.

Outstanding Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is by far the best PS2 game i have ever played. the story line and the graphics are totaly cool, and the intovative controls are easy to use. the contorls are simmaler to that of the Zelda games so you do not have to worry about jumping and suff like that. This game offers a great blance between action and puzzel solving.
the music in the game comes on during a fight then it goes off again after the fight so most of the time you are playing in dead silence, however that only adds to creepy effect that the different worlds have.
This game will keep you comming back to it, and that is what a game should do.

Primal The Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I got this game after i checked out a demo of it, it definatly lived up to its face. Quite gothy and cool, I love it. Jen is a little slow at responding to fight commands in water but she still kicks .... The game really makes you try to think and stratagize for ways to get into places and to find answers to things. Sometimes you find suprises like tarrot cards, its a pretty cool game with awsome music and effect for transformation.
Though sometimes i wonder why Jen doesn't just kick that hunk of rock (scree) for being stupid and letting her go alone into places when he is just lugging behind cause he doesnt feel like doing stuff. SCREEEEEEEEEEEEE! :-D I would recommend getting the guide to help you with enemies this is one game you shouldn't go without.

Horrible? No! Fun? Yes!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is a puzzle game with action thrown into it. It is the kind of game where you think you might get tired of walking around, and then a second later four monsters jump at you and its time to fight. This game isn't for the kind of person who likes a game for the fun of shooting someones head off with a shotgun. Its mostly finding objects to help you last through the night, or powers. Later in the game you get powers that gives you the chance to become a monster! I think thats awsome! Don't you?

Primal means glitch, i hate it when a game is filled with glithches

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I am not going to waste time, i hate this game! not so much the game play but this game is filled with glitches, and it is very boring the kind of game that gives you a headache that last until you turn it off and then sweet relief. i don't have time for that kind of incompetence by games designers, i did not see this through i got stuck some where in a pool of water and got fed up, or! i did not save often so i lost all the other save points so don't over write just in case laters folks.

Good graphics and characters, crummy gameplay

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

In this game you play as Jen, a heavy metal girl who's boyfriend has been kidnapped and taken to the "demon realms". Jen is taken to these realms by Scree, a gargoyle, and told that she must restore order to the realms in order to save her boyfriend. There are four of these realms, and the graphics are very good, the environments are very creative, and there's a lot of exploring to do.

The first realm is mostly a forest at night, though there is also a city, coliseum, underground caverns, etc. I didn't care for this realm too much, it's very maze-like and I spent the whole time having no idea where I was supposed to go or what I was supposed to do when I got there. The second realm is underwater, and you'll spend the whole time swimming. It's also very tough to navigate as you have to go from place to place and it's a big puzzle as far as how to get there. At least the mission was straightforward, you have to achieve a number of objectives one after another. The third realm was by far my favorite, you travel through an incredibly gloomy village and eventually wind up in a marvelous castle. It was worth it for the scenery alone. The fourth realm was so-so, it's a bunch of underground volcanic caverns and you'll spend a lot of time trying to get from one place to another. The challenge in this level is fun though.

Probably the biggest problem with the game is the combat - it's the most basic button mashing imaginable. Just press R2, over and over and over. By the end of the final boss battle I though the middle finger on my right hand was going to fall off. You basically get one weapon on each level and use it throughout, so there's absolutely no strategy when it comes to combat. Though to be fair, in the third realm you could run away from your enemies, then get a powerup from your gargoyle pal, kill one enemy, get another powerup, repeat until they're all dead.

The story is another problem - you start out trying to save your boyfriend, but spend the whole game trying to restore order to the demon realms, which doesn't seem to have much to do with the original story setup, and left me feeling totally uninvolved. They should have just ditched all the boyfriend stuff and instead come up with a different setup that would have made more sense and been more relevant.

Overall, good graphics and characters, lots of (often frustrating) exploring, and repetitive combat. It's a pretty game and some portions of it are certainly quite fun to play, but overall the bad outweighs the good.

If you don't fall asleep...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

So, I'd heard both good and bad things about Primal. I bought a really cheap copy so I wouldn't waste too much money, just to be safe, but to tell you the truth, I wish I hadn't spent that $3 bucks.

Yes, the graphics are pretty good, if nothing new; and yes, it is very tempting to parade around as a little midget gargoyle dude, but it's just not worth the first 45 minutes of the game.

It is so incredibly boring to start out with, I'd recommend it to anyone with insomnia or other serious sleeping disorder. 10 minutes in and you'll be fast asleep. If you can, through some miracle or act of witchcraft, stay awake long enough for the game to pick up slightly, you're still not out of the not-so-proverbial woods. Very, very slowly, almost like watching grass grow, you'll notice some increased action/excitement, but just when it starts to get mediocre, it's over.

Despite the Yawn factor, the midget a la gargoyle makes the game. Hell, I could have done without the girl all together. Most of their banter is forced, and you just want to shout at the screen "Gee, thanks Mr. and Mrs. Obvious!". However, if you get into that special place where you are very easily entertained, play it for the sole purpose of watching a bit of "Waddling Gargoyle Walk."

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