03-04-2006, 04:57 AM
Grandia.
That is by far one of the greatest RPGs ever devised by human minds. Badgers have made better, but they're mostly about things we can't relate to. Grandia has no big airship. Grandia has no "save the world" objective until the very end of the game, nor "rescue the damsiel". In fact, at the begining, the hero is a bumbling oaf.
It starts off in the town of Palm, which is undergoing an industrial revolution, so everything is being powered by steam. Justin, aged ten, the hero, with the worst hero name ever (which I love), has a keen interest in history and wants to follow in his late father's footsteps and become an "adventurer". The game opens playing a hide and seek game along these lines. It's really, quite fantastic and ingenious. I think you have to play to at least the begining of the second disc to understand just how marvelous it is. Eighty two hours of play spanning two discs, with Anime based FMVs, sprites and faces, which are displayed above the character dialog. It's fantastic.
That is by far one of the greatest RPGs ever devised by human minds. Badgers have made better, but they're mostly about things we can't relate to. Grandia has no big airship. Grandia has no "save the world" objective until the very end of the game, nor "rescue the damsiel". In fact, at the begining, the hero is a bumbling oaf.
It starts off in the town of Palm, which is undergoing an industrial revolution, so everything is being powered by steam. Justin, aged ten, the hero, with the worst hero name ever (which I love), has a keen interest in history and wants to follow in his late father's footsteps and become an "adventurer". The game opens playing a hide and seek game along these lines. It's really, quite fantastic and ingenious. I think you have to play to at least the begining of the second disc to understand just how marvelous it is. Eighty two hours of play spanning two discs, with Anime based FMVs, sprites and faces, which are displayed above the character dialog. It's fantastic.