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best game ever!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Ok, i'm a huge role playing game fan, FF, skies of Arcadia, Tales, and all of those, great games, but hands down this is the winner game. The story is amazing, game play is easy to learn, and the graphics and music are great too. You will never play a better game then this one- swear! real time fighting, and a butt stuck to the couch story, makes this the best one yet. Just combine all your favorite games, and you have this one, you'll love it!!!

About as good as PS2 can get

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Im a pretty picky gamer. I have found very few games interesting enough to finish. I finished this one. I really didnt think it was too difficult to learn or to get through. I dont like the cutscene length, I timed one at nearly 30 minutes!! However, this game was very fun. I have played many of the FF series and I think this one holds its own against those.

Rogue Galaxy is awesome.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This has got to be in the top 5 of all rpg's i've played. Bosses arent't too easy.(got my butt kicked several times by getting lazy). I disliked the factory system. I'm 90% through the game and havn't made a thing there. Liked the frog log and everything else about the game. I'd recommend it to anyone who likes RPG's

Great Game to kill the time

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a good game for old-fashioned dungeon crawler fans. Though the battle system could use a little tweak here and there, it is, overall an exciting and somewhat challenging piece to play.

A galaxy of adventure awaits!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I recommend this to any and all RPG fans out there who need something to spice up their collections.
Interesting characters and a great storyline put this at the forefront of the RPG genre on the PS2.
It also has great graphics and plenty of things to do on the side from the main quest.
This game will keep you busy for a while and its has plenty of replay value.
There was even an entire new world added to the US version!
Dont miss out on this because this is sure to be one of the last great games for the PS2.
This is like a mix between Breath of Fire and Skies of Arcadia.
(Which are two great games by the way)
This was also made by the same team who created the awsome Dark Cloud series.
Buy this game and I promise you will not regret it!

Overlooked but still wonderful!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The first and easiest way to know if a game is really good is if after a year of being out on the market, the used price at GameStop is not that far off from the price for a new game. This game follows this "rule".

While it's hard to find sometimes, and the strategy guide is even harder to find, the game has a rich story line, great voice acting, and different and exciting gameplay.

There are only two cons: sometimes it is very "dungeon-crawling", and going through some areas takes forever. The other thing, which I kind of like, is the abundance of cut scenes - more than your run-of-the-mill RPG, I think.

I just absolutely love this game, and there are too many reasons to list, from the voice-acting, to the characters to themselves, to the weapon customisation, to the multiple weapons per character. At points it will seem very similar to Final Fantasy XII (for example, main characters starting out in a desert area? big fancy city with lots of technology? warring empires?), but is that really a bad thing? Lots of different sidequests, tongue-in-cheek comedy at times, and some throw-backs to anime fans and other geeks like myself that just add that extra bit of awesome.

I would and do highly recommend this game to everyone I know.

Fun game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a fun, action rpg that isn't too complicated for the casual gamer.
definitely worth the price($20)

My Favorite PS2 RPG

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Rogue Galaxy succeeds due to many factors, the main one being its story (which breathlessly escapes most of the JRPG cliches). I appreciated hte fact that you played as a prty, but there was minimal babysitting - an efficient list of set commands is available to issue your teammates. the combat is fast and fluid, and brekas up some of the humdrum mechanics of many turn-based affairs. the weapon/item synthesis is deep (practically a game in itself), and it will take well over 100 hours to experience everything just once. Any fan of dungeon crawlers, level grinders, or fast-paced action/RPGs should check this out.

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game for hard core gamers and for rookies. It's fairly easy to figure out and one feature that is very nice is the ability to run from a battle.

Rogue Galaxy - Repetitive, Pretty, Predictable

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The game's general story is: seemingly nobody boy wants to leave planet to explore, is mistaken for someone else, and has to keep up this facade to prevent himself from missing out on his chance to explore the galaxy.

And the game starts off good, really good. The problem is just that as the game continues the story becomes more and more predictable and sappy. I think there was one plot twist but you could see it coming a mile away (heck there were cutscenes in every location directly telling you it would happen).

That said, the combat system is fun, it's a mix between Secret of Mana's action based battling and Final Fantasy's random battles which may or may not turn off people to the game. I found it to be refreshing and, for the most part, enjoyed the battles. I did find, however, toward the end, you could rely on casting one skill at the beginning of each battle and pretty much kill all the enemies in one quick blow, time and time again.

There are plenty of side things to do ranging from a bug arena (pretty interesting idea) where you bring collected bugs to battle to be the best to a factory where you arrange materials collected with set recipes to build new items for the stores you frequent.

Unfortunately, the game's story is horrid and there are other flaws which take this almost wonderful game and turn it into something less than exciting. One of the main flaws with the game, I'd say, is the constant need to grind away at enemies to survive at all. You'll beat one area and instantly be thrown into the next where the enemies seem nearly impossible. I mean, it makes sense to increase the level of the enemies but so dramatically? It just forces you to sit at the beginning of each stage, build up enough of a level to survive the battles, and then move on out.

There are also weird items you get in your inventory that seem to have no purpose after their initial use and are downright silly. You're given a glove that increases your strength at one point to break something in your way... but then the glove is never used again. Oh wow, we're very lucky that glove was in the area for this predicament.

Anyhow, the game is pretty and if you can stand the somewhat sappy empty story you will enjoy the game. So if you do see it on sale, I suggest buying it and giving it a try. Don't jump into it thinking it'll be on the level of any other RPG series (Suikoden, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy) because it just isn't.

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