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Slightly innovative turn-based JRPG still gets repetititve

Published July 25, 2008
3 out of 5 starsScore: 60/100

Eternal Sonata features absolutely marvelous piano music, and a story that shows parallels with Chopin's live in the Polish  "great emigration". The entire storyline is absolutely ingeneous, even though the part that plays in Chopin's dream suffers from the typical Japanese overacting. The novelty is the real-time turn-based attack scheme, and the party levels. I like both. Still the game gets repetitive, and after months of playing intermittently, I'm still stuck in some sort of tower with all powerful enemies. It's not that I can't beat them, it just takes so much time.....

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