So far:
Story:
As with all SRW games it's a cross-over between universes, with characters meeting even though they're from "next-door worlds" as they put it in the game. I'm hoping some mech appear soon.
More on the story in wiki.
Overall:
Provided I'm not faced with the stupid number of random battles followed by enevitable save point-less death I had to try to endure in FFIII I'll stick with this to the end. The storyline seems interesting enough and the controls aren't too taxing or too easy at the same time. It looks nice enough during battles and there's enough skin on show to keep the anime crowd happy.
- It's NOT the SRW I love, but it's not bad. I hereby apologise for all the comparisions that follow after.
- Battles are turn-based in an FF kind of way but I don't find them as tedious.
- The graphics when walking around are very retro - think back to the 16bit era. Functional but hardly pretty, though still in line with standard SRW battle map images.
- The voice acting is really good and very promising for the next proper SRW on DS. If you don't understand Japanese it won't mean much to you.
- Battles are easy when you get the idea. You can attack up to 5 times per character per turn (but it's a bit more complicated than that I think), to build up the biggest combo you have to press A for the next attack just before the enemy hits the ground reeling from the last attack. My max combo so far is 40 hits.
- The special abilites have survived and can be used in a turn without affecting attacks, as can items.
- The longer the battle goes on, the more your Killer Move (必殺技) bar charges. When at MAX you can press Y to unleash the current character's killer move. This is when you have the brief up-close AMV that you see in the adverts.
- Yes, KOS-MOS from Xenosaga is in it.
Story:
As with all SRW games it's a cross-over between universes, with characters meeting even though they're from "next-door worlds" as they put it in the game. I'm hoping some mech appear soon.
More on the story in wiki.
Overall:
Provided I'm not faced with the stupid number of random battles followed by enevitable save point-less death I had to try to endure in FFIII I'll stick with this to the end. The storyline seems interesting enough and the controls aren't too taxing or too easy at the same time. It looks nice enough during battles and there's enough skin on show to keep the anime crowd happy.
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