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SEWAGE!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: April 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

How anyone can give this title a solid 5stars is beyond me. This title is by far the worst RPG game ever created!!! "Time Stalkers" is everything gone wrong with an RPG, which had the potential of being a great title, if just a little more time and effort were put into the project. Dungeons are randomly picked, (which can be an either good or bad thing dependings on one's preference) can only carry 5 items when entering a dungeon (only level 1 weapons can be carried inside a dungeon since your character is started at level even time they enter a new) , and worst of all if you're defeated in a battle guess what, not only do have to start the entire dungeon from scratch, but you're also started back at level 1 and lose all of strong weapons which you had gathered during your voyage!! What were the creaters thinking?!! Not only that, but the list goes on and on!! Do not buy this title!! I'll make you want to play NES rpg titles!!! Which are better may I add, than this title!!

Who thinks up this stuff?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: October 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Why the heck would anyone make a game like this? I cant believe there were actual human beings behind its creation. I mean, who was it that said "Hey! Lets make them start back at level one in each dungeon just for kicks! haha!!", total waste of money ...

Timestalkers- I feel so Nautious

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Timestalkers is the most pathetic attempt at an RPG I've ever seen. A boy and his Blob and the ROM Life's Battle are gaming miracles compared to this. First off, your levels restart every time you enter a new dungeon, and you can carry almost nothing into a dungeon. Games like this caused the Dreamcast to bomb.

We need to send Time Stalkers back to grade school to teach it about being a good game.

Buy it if you are feeling particullary retarted today. I hope this warning prevents you from making the same mistake I did. I would have killed for a review when I first got this game, I had to pay a lot since I got it when it first game out.

This was Sega's first RPG attempt on the Dreamcast, and like they say, "First is the worst".

Buy a miracle RPG like Skies of Arcadia or Shenmue instead.

P.S.-The guys who gave those kickin' reviews were Toys R Us employees trying to make you buy this game.

THIS GAME IS HORRIBLE

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: November 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The story to this game is great. Awesome even. But the gameplay....the returning to lvl 1 after each dungeon and all the little bugs and glitches that make it horrible ruin it....

Ths game wasn't very good

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 33
Date: December 13, 1999
Author: Amazon User

THIS GAME WAS NOT UP TO MY STANDARDS, its graphics were only soso,and the entertainmet value was awful low. It doesn't stand up to the competition and no one should buy this game. The only reason i gave it two stars was because of the system that it runs on. DON'T BUY THIS GAME ITS HORRIBLE

They Robbed Me!!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: October 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Now when I first played this game, I loved it! But after awhile of playing I came to this one boss that I have spent a month on and havn't been able to beat! And it's not cause I'm not good at fighting, it's because whenever he hurt's you, his life bar refuals to whatever amount he hurt you for TIMES TWO!!! So if he takes away 22 health points from you, then he will gain 44 health points from you!!! What!?! And because I can't get any more health than 96 it makes it so I'm at a MAJOR dissadvantage! And for the record 7/10 that I attack him I miss, even with the special attacks (Every one knows that special attacks shouldn't miss. Other wise that makes it a regular move that just costs something more than a special attack!)!?! Now that's unfair. Now I'm not saying the game is bad because I was really enjoying this game up to this point! But now I feel forced to buy a hint book or I may never beat this guy. Shame on the creators for making such an unfair boss! I feel like I was robbed of my money for this game.

role playing?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: May 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Sorry all, but this game is a BIG disappointment. The graphics are lame considering the Dreamcast's processing power. There is really no role playing to be had here either.The randomly generated dungeons and idiotic leveling system make the game a bore, not to mention that the towns offer nothing but mindless text banter from uninteresting characters. This is not a good game. Hopefully we will get a real role player like the Final Fantasy series or even an installment of Y's....something! Until then, save your money.

An average Role Playing Game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: March 30, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I had greater expectations of the Climax Team, coming from earlier games such as shining in the darkness, etc, I expected a wonderfully rich, enhanced experience. While the richness is there, the actual plot of the game and the almost complete lack of story whatsoever really shot this game in the foot before it got out of the gates. Like evolution, this game also has the random dungeon layouts, making it bsically a graphical M.U.D. (Multi-user-dungeon.) Basically a text based hack and slash world where one travels around, exploring and looking for treasure, wtih basically no plot involved. This may be good for some, but I appreciate games like Suikoden II, and a few of Squaresoft's games for giving me an actuall intellectual plotline to follow, as well as giving me the funky treasure and fabu eye-candy. Time stalkers' characters leave little to be desired. While some of the various designs were well done, I particualry love Rao (lion man), they severely lacked any sort of thick personality. Sword is bossy and arrogant, Rao tends to be more reserved, etc, but that is basically how far it goes. No real character developement to be found. Overall I would have liked the Climax team to almost completely forget about the random dungeons. I mean give me a break, it must have taken very little time at all to program the random algorithims, what did you all DO with the rest of your development time? Add some more depth and richness to your games, take a cue from Square or Konami. We LIKE depth.

A ... RPG Game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: August 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Time Stalkers has some awesome ideas behind it, but it has too many problems to really recommend above your standard RPG on the PlayStation. Currently, EGG is still the only real worthwhile RPG on the system, and it's of the action variety. I actually enjoyed Time Stalkers a bit more than Evolution, primarily due to the title's original ideas. I'd definitely recommend that you hold off your cash until the real role playing games hit the system.

Worth a Rental, Perhaps a Purchase if it strikes your fancy.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: May 24, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I enjoyed Time Stalkers greatly, and while it is an okay game, it is not on par with most blue-blooded RPG's. The graphics were good, and so was the sound. Nothing terrible, nothing angelic. Each time you enter a dungeon, the dungeon changes, and the map is random. You also lose the ability to equip certain skills once you leave, and certain items as well. The reason for this, is that the more powerful abilities and treasure require high stat points to work properly -- your experience and stats are reset to base scores once you leave a dungeon, either by death and escape or by completion.

I had played Azure Dreams on the Playstation and loved it, and was told I would thus enjoy Time Stalkers. In Azure Dreams, you search random dungeons, but you also keep your stats when you leave. Your monsters also keep their levels. Time Stalkers is similar, but Azure Dreams is far superior, IMHO.

The story is interesting, but not captivating. The characters are actually somewhat annoying. You have no sympathy whatsoever for the main hero, who is for the most part, a jerk. Not even an antihero, Sword is rather disagreeable. Evolution was far better, comparitavely. I enjoyed it more than I did Time Stalkers, because I loved those characters. The story interested me, and I actually thought it was a great deal of fun. This game is too, but for such a short RPG the time sure drags on when you play it.

The VMU games are fun, but at the rate the VMU batteries burn and die, it makes the question of worth uncertain.

How long does it take to beat? I finished TimeStalkers in one rental; and that was without playing it non-stop. It is fun, mark my words, but replay value is limited in my opinion. Save your $ for Shen Mue and rent this one if you need some other RPG's to tide you over until the big guns are released on the Dreamcast.

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