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| Okage: Shadow King; PS2 | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jun 30 2006, 11:04 PM (83 Views) | |
| KTKarona | Jun 30 2006, 11:04 PM Post #1 |
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Take hold of an epic roleplaying story as you control the character known as Ari, a rather shy, quiet young boy who lives with his family in a manor near the village of Tenel. Everyone knows Ari is rather overshadowed and never speaks up for himself, but this was all about to change as his father brought home a mysterious bottle one day. Shortly after that, his life began changing, sure enough, as with a curse brought on by a ghost onto his sister, Annie, Ari had to become the servant to the evil spirit that dwelled within the mysterious bottle his father had brought home, the Reincarnation of the Great Evil King Gohma, the Evil King Stan! Now the eternal servant of Stan, Ari must follow his master's orders and help him conquer the world while Stan regains his powers. The character design is something that reminded me of Tim Burton's 'Twas the Nightmare Before Christmas, and that drew me into playing it so many years ago. This is one of those basic text RPGs, in the sense that everything other than little bits that the narrator may say is in text. You may still get some little voice effects here and there, but nothing too grand, if you're swayed by that. The battle system is turn-based, and the monster design is rather wacky as well. When your character's turn comes up, battle pauses and you choose one of four main actions: Fight, Special, Item and Defense. If you choose Special, you get to choose from the list of skills that that character has learned through the levels, which may depend on Health (HP), Magic (MP) or Labor (LP) points. Field map design is pretty open, you have some narrow paths you can walk through to explore the paths there, but for the most part, it's set on main paths from city to city. Monsters on the field appear as red, white or blue ghosts, which are the general type of monsters you'll be fighting within this game. And although you play as Ari, you'll gain the assistance of 5 other party members that will join you as soon as you get to specific parts within the story. The story itself is pretty nice, but to me, the three choices that it gives you sometimes for conversation seem rather unrequired, as some conversational pieces are accepted with the same response from the other person, no matter which you choose. You have minor side quests to perform, which is always a good thing, for the most part. You can perform the Cyphertext challenge, which is decrypting the puzzle found on the Cyphertext items you'll acquire in a chain, or you can do a worldwide item delivery quest, which will start by you getting one item from someone, then finding someone else with a need for it, trading that for something else, and then proceeding on until you find someone else who needs the new item and so on and so forth. Your ultimate goal in the game is to assist the Evil King Stan with reclaiming his scattered remains of power and conquering the world, but don't let that stop you from taking in the beauty of the world, in its own way, as well as getting a chuckle every now and then at the design of the non-playable characters. This is an alright game, very fun if you're into roleplaying games, and the only bad part about it is the minor loads every now and then when Ari traverses from inside of a building to outside of it, or from the field map to a city. But don't let that stop you from enjoying this game, which is what this review is to help you get a grasp of. |
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| Dante | Jul 11 2006, 01:10 PM Post #2 |
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cant really comment on it seeing as i aint played it...yet, cos after that review im gunna
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| gamer014 | Aug 22 2006, 02:57 PM Post #3 |
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Really good game, weird plot twists and good ol' humor. All of the characters are psychologiclay(sp?) damage an a funny sort of way. I didn't get to finish it since somehow candle wax got all over it and it got screwed up while I was cleaning it. And evil king stan isn't very scary, even to most of the people in the game. |
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