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D&D on PS2

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I felt like I was playing a Dungeons and Dragons Campaign instead of a video game. You have the traditional D&D classes, races, similar spells, and a huge whopping dungeon. Sure, you can't go anywhere else but the dungeon in the game, but there are multiple levels and town-affiliated quests. It has more than enough content. Spell components (and scrolls) matter, inventory matters, disarming chests, random traps, identification of new items (which may be cursed), and most importantly (what makes the game great) trust matters.

I'll repeat: *Trust* matters.

I've gone through a terrible amount of normal roleplaying with humans where an idiot playing a character (usually a spellcaster with supposedly high intelligence/wisdom) in my party goes and does something stupid. It ruins the experience, because either you ignore it and keep playing or have a pointless argument with hurt feelings. This game takes care of that in a wonderful way, and I really feel the same sort of roleplaying 'rush' without the dice.

In this game, if you don't treat your allies right (like keep getting them killed), they won't trust you, and your party can't perform allied attacks (necessary for later levels). I was skeptical too, but the trust factor really makes the game for me. The story is about as developed as an average D&D campaign (not much). The game is mainly about exploring, leveling, and staying alive. An enormous amount of NPC encounters inside the labyrinth add humor.

You've heard the good, but now for the bad. Sounds can get repetitive, menus could have been improved, and combat takes too long. The graphics are fine; they accurately convey a dungeon exploring expedition's experiences.

A major downside is no fast-forward for combat. By the time you're level 10, the monsters in the first areas of the dungeon are no challenge, but it still takes time to walk through their areas (even with shortcuts). You still have to select everyone's actions, and even using allied 'Rush' still means the encounter wasted thirty seconds of game playing. Additionally the menu system inside the Vigger's Store could have been way improved, as I probably WANT to sell everything I just had identified, and no, if it is a cursed item, I don't wish to equip it, thanks.

Overall, if you like D&D dungeon crawls, and don't mind video games having a lot of stats and items to keep track of, buy this game.

It Was An OK RPG

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 11
Date: July 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The text is written a litle too akwardly, and with bad wording. Not the best graphics. Overall I woudn't recomend it to someone who isn't either an RPG fan or realy into the series...Final Fantasy 8 happens to be my favorite in the series. The only one in the FF series that is even a little bad is Final Fantasy 9. The graphics weren't that great and the characters were weird, I mean come on, a boy with a tail and a girly haircut!

You have got to be kidding.....

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: October 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game had some cool aspects but all in all it is not worth your money. i like to see my character on an rpg on a shooter its cool having the 1st person veiw but on here its annoying. the characters you met are really tight and well drawn but everytime they have something to say you just see a picture of them no mater if its good or bad. i give it a 2.

didnt get the game at all

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 22
Date: August 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

do not buy from this company I ordered 5 games and they all came in from different places just fine except atlus usa. I havent recieved the game and they have had a month to ship it the others came about 3 weeks ago.

So so ...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

OK, but I got tired of it very fast and gave it away.
The is out of your control too much. And as far as the graphics go ... um ... what graphics?! Don't expect special-effects either. I just found this game to be at the level of what used to come out ten years ago or so ... where these programmers sleeping all this time?

Great Old School RPG

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is your classic RPG of building of characters, finding treasures and slaying everything in front of you. In less than a week, I have probably played more than 30 hours on this game and I'm not even close to completing it!!! The spell system and side quests bring a whole new dimension to the game. At the same time, you don't have to follow the quests and just build your characters up. It doesn't make you follow one path, which is what I never liked about the Final Fantasy games. Your only path is building your characters up and going further and further down into the dungeon. ROCK ON!!!!

Very Good Dame For Classic Roleplaying

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game. While the graphics aren't supurb, it has a great game play feel. For those purest that like role playing games that are turned based and are about building up players, it is a must. The concept of building trust amongst the group to be able to do special moves is very cool.

10 stars

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: December 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

You are the one... you have to find the princess with her treasures hiding from the pure evilness of the underworld creatures. It is your destiny to find the princess and to bring the kingdom back and to take those evil creatures down.This game is a blast and you will have lot of fun playing it. If there was a surplus of 5 stars added to the five stars (10 stars) I would rate it 10 stars to a definate facture.

No, don't even think about it

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 24
Date: October 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Don't plan on it. It is bad. You will be in a bland environment, with graphics made for the N64, then you will be in a story that doesn't involve you or anyone! Awesome! Not only is there no motivation, but there is a boring game!

Take for example, save points. To save you have to leave, to leave you have to find an item or WALK back. When you learn about team attacks from this dude, he tells you all the different things then you try them. There is one that took me 3 hours to beat. It is called team defence. Every turn, 16 goblins would run at my guys, one time I tried attacking the goblins, but died horribly and had to redo my hour long work. Ok so then I tried again. This time when I did team defence, my girl would get lucky sometimes and hit something. it literally took me 2 hours just to do that battle. 3 hours because of the losing it and walking back.

Cons:
-The game costs money
-Battles are repetitive
-The environments are stupid. It is blocks. All blocks.
-You hit up, down, left, and right to do everything.
-The town is all text and stuff, there isn't any walking around.
-The game has such poor graphics that are some of the most boring and uninspired environments ever conceived in a game.
-The atari has better graphics than this game

Pros:
-The game is hard to find
-You get a receipt for buying it

Fun game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is a pretty fun game, it kept me busy for quite some time. One reason i like this is the way you can build your character. You can chose from a few races, then depending on your race and alignment, you can choose your class. Another thing that sets it apart from other RPG's on the PS2 is how its in first person view. The battle system is brilliant and relys heavily on teamwork. A good RPG worth buying.

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