![]() ![]() Vagrant Story actually shares its setting with FFT: Ivalice. If you are a Final Fantasy Tactics fan, there are tons of references around through item descriptions. The game is very well written, and uses "Shakesperian" english to great effort. It's something to be experienced for sure. Moreover, the sound design is great as well, and you actually feel inside a long abandoned, cursed city. The dungeons have their own invisible traps (which you can make visible through a spell), and block puzzles, which you need to move around to access different sections of Leá Monde. This is in contrast to games like Skyrim or Fallout, where enemies pretty much differ from each other by how much damage they deal to you, and little else. Enemies have a good variety of skills and tricks, meaning you won't feel like you are battling the same enemy over an over again. But it is not as simple as "higher tier = better", as some equipment, particularly wooden protection, actually makes your magical skills better than the equipment that offers better protection against physical attacks. The game also has a "material" system: the better the material, the better your equipment will be. and acquire better (or worse) pieces of equipment. You can go to specific workshops littered throughout Leá Monde to combine your different swords, axes, spears, shields, armor, etc. Your reliance on equipment is made more meaningful through the equipment combination mechanic. These abilities can range from "do extra damage" to "drain some of the enemy's HP". As you acquire new skills, your combos get progressively stronger and more interesting. It has definitely the most engaging combat I've ever experienced in an RPG, and one of the most rewarding to boot. ![]() All of that out of the way, here's why, if you don't mind about the disadvantages mentioned above, you should get this game: - Vagrant Story has the most engaging combat I've ever experienced in a videogame, bar tactics/strategy videogames. I don't like JRPGs as much as I did when I was a teenager. I say this because those two are some of the most popular RPGs ever made, so it is important that you have an idea of what I think of these "acclaimed" videogames. Fallout 3 and Skyrim, to boot, deserve no score higher than a solid 70 out of 100. Of these, none of them, I repeat, NONE of them, deserve anything higher than a solid 90 out of 100. I have played Morrowind, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Skyrim, Planescape: Torment, Fallout. This is my first Metacritic review, and probably my only one. So now you will probably want to hear what is so good about this game, why is it a 99 out of 100? Before I say that, I want to mention a few things. Dependence on equipment and the combo system. Heavy emphasis on combat and dungeon crawling. I've already told you the reasons you may dislike this game: - Lack of NPCs. This is the only reason why I give this game a 99 out of 100. This is one of the frustrating aspects this game has for most players, made even worse by the fact the game lacks a proper switch-weapons hotkey. Even in the early game the "good" weapons still won't do much damage to the opponents. Use the wrong weapon, and you may find yourself doing laughable damage to your enemy, or no damage at all. Because of this heavy emphasis on equipment, you will need to use every weapon at your disposal. In addition to these increases, you may or not find stat increasing items, though this are rare. Your stats only increase by defeating the bosses scattered throughout the game, all of which you will encounter as you advance through the main storyline. You should also know that the game heavily relies on equipment to defeat your enemies. ![]() There are no NPCs for you to interact with: it is you, Ashley Riot, against the monsters inside the city of Leá Monde. I can't emphasize this enough: the game is HEAVY no the dungeon crawling. This game's combat relies on combos executed through a rhythm mini-game, where you press a button of your choosing to execute another attack upon seeing an exclamation mark pop up above Ashley's head. It is a dungeon crawler, you play lone ranger Ashley Riot has he explores the ruins of Leá Monde searching for the antagonist of the game. Before I go in-depth, I will tell you a few things you should know about Vagrant Story. And to me, the score that more closely represents this game is a 99/100. Before I I gave this game a 10 because it was either that or a 9. I gave this game a 10 because it was either that or a 9. ![]()
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