Legacy User 9058's Reviews

163 public written reviews

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Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World2008

Nov 30, 2008

Ok, let me get this out of the way. I've been addicted to Action RPGs since the original Zelda was released and was a huge fan of the Tales of series since Tales of Destiny was released. I played a ton, and I mean a TON of RPG's last gen. Tales of Symphonia just happens to be my favorite RPG of last gen. Sure, it's cliche, but the overall package was amazing. It's hard to explain, but you can't relive that…

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Chrono Cross1999

Nov 9, 2008

I remember when Chrono Cross was released and wasn't blown away in the least. Chrono Cross didn't live up to the hype by the media (Gamespot gave it a 10, EGM gave it a 10). It didn't live up to Chrono Trigger's standards either. It was ultimately a disappointing sequel to one of the greatest games ever made. Chrono Trigger did so many things right that Chrono Cross just doesn't even toy with. For one, they tossed…

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Dragon Valor1999

Oct 21, 2008

Dragon Valor was not a fun game. Ok, I thought it was fun at first, but once you did one dungeon, you did them all. Your tactics rarely changed with combat. The platforming could be frustrating at times. Strengthening up your character and then having most of that power stripped away is stupid. The difficulty was kinda tough at times because you can't bulk up on healing items or magic potions, so you have to use…

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Mega Man Legends1997

Oct 20, 2008

Megaman Legends was overall a pretty enjoyable RPG. The graphics were impressive, the load times were short. The cutscenes looked amazing. The dungeons were fun to explore. The dialog was quirky, the towns folk were interesting. This was a fun world to be in, to bad the game was only 10 hours long. My only other two complaints is the ugly dungeons generic look of the dungeons and the terrible controls at times.…

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Saiyuki: Journey West2001

Oct 15, 2008

Saiyuki: Journey West wasn't a great game nor a bad game, but it was perfectly average at what it did. The graphics aren't bad, the sound is good, the controls are tight. The story needed more depth, and I wasn't a huge fan of the skill system, but I guess these are my only true complaints. Saiyuki is pretty fun overall. If you enjoyed Final Fantasy Tactics, then this one of the best FFT clones I've played.…

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Ōkami2006

Oct 1, 2008

Ok, I liked Okami alot. I want to get that out of the way before I go into my rant. Okami was FUN. There is no denying that. I loved the puzzles were creative, the dungeons were fun to figure out. I thought some aspects about it was totally unique, while others were blatant clones of Zelda ideas. I love Zelda games, boy do it. I love Zelda clones and Okami is one of them, but what get's on my nerves is when people…

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Dragon Ball Z: Sagas2005

Sep 21, 2008

I'm not a Dragonball fan at all. I don't think I ever sit through an entire episode in my life. I do like these character action games, so I attempted to play this, besides having no prior knowledge. I must say that Dragon Ball Z Sagas is a pretty bad game. One of the worst games I've played on the Gamecube actually. It's also pretty damn easy too. The game was actually more difficult in the beginning of the game…

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Grandia II2000

Sep 21, 2008

Ok, let me rant a little bit before I dive in my Dreamcast review. I originally played Grandia 2 on the PS2. I didn't know first hand of the differences until after I played it but I knew something was wrong. When you chatted with someone the dialog text ran in slow motion. It was so slow I avoided NPC chats. You also ran in slow motion in town scenes and cutscenes aswell. The Playstation 2 version was so slow and…

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Shining Force EXA2007

Sep 15, 2008

I can't say Shining Force Exa was a better game than Neo because it didn't really improve much. Only the graphics were improved in my eyes. The battle system was nearly untouched (not that it was bad to begin with), the story felt a little worse. I really hated the gimmick of two characters only for the fact that they ruin your dungeon crawling pacing. The framerate drops was slightly fixed, never problematic but…

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Champions: Return to Arms2005

Sep 13, 2008

Ok, I hated this game. I really really did. Not only did it feel like a poor expansion pack of Champions of Norrath, but it was full of game crashing bugs (re: graphics). I have never in my life been more bored playing an Action RPG in my life either. This is seriously one of the worst and I've sat through Bard's Tale, D&D Heroes, Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel and much other pieces of crap. I would recommend to…

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Final Fantasy VII1997

Aug 31, 2008

I have a weird history with Final Fantasy 7. I played all previous Final Fantasys that came out before Final Fanasty 7, including Mystic Quest and Chrono Trigger.. heck basically all Square games at this point. So when I first heard about Final Fantasy 7 and that it was coming out on the Playstation, I was pissed. I didn't want a Playstation, there was no games on it I cared about and I already owned a Saturn. I…

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Enchanted Arms2006

Aug 31, 2008

Enchanted Arms was..eeh.. ok I guess. The graphics are really bad. The voice acting annoying. The story was crap. However, I did like dungeon crawling in the game. I loved finding all the Golems (I got most of them). There was plenty of fun sidequests. I loved building up my characters skills. While the battle system was a little slow, you can set your battles to Auto, so you can create really fast battles if you…

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Eternal Sonata2007

Aug 22, 2008

I had alot of fun with Eternal Sonata.. for the first two chapters. I was expecting a game that started off with a couple main characters, and then you followed through with them til the end. That did not happen. My fondest memories of this game will forever be with the first couple chapters, that is before the game turn into a total mess with me. That is when you had a solid group of likeable characters with a…

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Final Fantasy Tactics1997

Aug 10, 2008

I was a huge fan of the Final Fantasy series, I had not missed a single one during this period (ok, there was only 1,2,3,Mystic Quest and 7 at this point), so when Final Fantasy Tactics came out, I was hyped beyond belief despite little info on the game. Either way, I picked up Final Fantasy Tactics the day it came out. It wasn't a jaw dropping experience at first like Final Fantasy 7 was, but Final Fantasy Tactics…

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Marvel Ultimate Alliance2006

Aug 8, 2008

I had so many problems with this game. First there was alot of bugs and glitches. One instance I was playing as the Thing and Rhino trapped me in a wall, and I couldn't move. Another instance I was playing as Ghost Rider and I some how was thrown off of a ledge by a glitch. Another time I was playing as Blade but the Vision thought I was wolverine, and the Blade started talking as Wolverine. The biggest glitch of…

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Blue Dragon2006

Aug 3, 2008

Blue Dragon reminds me of a mix of Final Fantasy X-2, Dragon Quest 8 and Evolution, maybe with dash of Okage: Shadow King for good measure. There was a few things that really peeved me about Blue Dragon, sure the game was extremely easy, sure the blur effects annoyed the crap out of me, sure the story was perfectly average at best, and sure the graphics weren't exactly blowing my mind. Outside of that, I really…

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Virtua Quest2005

Aug 3, 2008

Virtua Quest is about the closest thing you'll find to Kingdom Hearts on the Gamecube, to bad this is a really really bad RPG. The fighting is really repetitive. The platforming is horrible, unreliable and completely frustrating. The story and characters are unlikeable and boring. Everything else inbetween is quite generic. The Virtua Fighters only play a small part of the game, and they're easy to defeat. The only…

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Dinotopia is a short, easy and stripped down RPG.

Aug 3, 2008

Ok, not only was this game short, it was easy, had a terrible story with some of the poorest written dialog I've read. The dungeons are pathetic, as were the bosses within this game. There's no collectibles within the game or even puzzles, heck Drake learns to "Double Jump" like in every platformer game ever invented since Mario but there's only two sections within the game that require it. While this game might…

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Medabots Infinity is one of the worst RPGs ever made.

Jul 29, 2008

I'll just jump right into this one. Medabots Infinity just plain SUCKS. I can't even picture Medabot fans enjoying this. The graphics are bad, the controls are even worse. The camera angles work against you in all the boss battles. The dungeons are all the same and felt randomly generate. The game has an extremely high difficulty, and this is pretty bad for a kids game. How are kids suppose to play this game when a…

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Dark Savior1996

Jul 23, 2008

I remember when I first bought the Saturn. Dark Savior was promoted on the back of the box, or possible in one of the booklets that came with it. I was totally wowed by the graphics. Looking back today I still think they're very good, I would like to say that Dark Savior is like slapping Paper Mario in Vagrant Story's world. That sounds pretty damn weird, but it's true. Of course though, Dark Savior came out long…

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Tales of Symphonia2004

Jul 22, 2008

Note: this was one of my first reviews and I agree it's pretty horrible, I wrote this a few years ago, so I'll leave it unedited for now. I still love Tales of Symphonia, and I still can't think of a better last gen game than this. I had trouble getting into Tales of Symphonia at first. It was a little slow moving and it picked up the speed really quick. There’s a ton of depth to the game, a lot of sidequests, great…

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Wild Arms Alter Code: F2005

Jul 22, 2008

I beat the original Wild Arms game at the 28 hour mark, but this one took me 49 hours. Between each game, they have the same amount of towns and dungeons, but Alter Code F was a MUCH longer game because of the slowish battle system and drawn out storyline and dialog scenes. If Alter Code F was 20 hours shorter, I think I would be less harsh on it, but it quickly worn out it's welcome. Ok, this game was just WAY to…

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Wild Arms 42006

Jul 22, 2008

Despite a few Wild Arm-isms, if someone was to tell me this was a Wild Arms game, then I wouldn't believe them. There is a ton of changes in this game from the previous titles, some for the worst, but other for the better. I like the platforming elements to the game, the new Hex battle system is really fun, they added voice overs, these are all huge improvements. On the downside, I hate the new dot-to-dot map (it's…

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Wild Arms 32002

Jul 22, 2008

The battle system was kinda boring, since most of the moves took forever to work and it was way to flashy. There was way to many unneeded cuts during battle, it just gave me a headache, and also could confuse me if there was multiple enemies of the same type on the field, since they ran around the battle field at random. I would seriously set my moves, then turn the channel to watch the news and flip back to set the…

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Wild Arms 22000

Jul 22, 2008

Wild Arms 2 was just a boring game overall. The story bored me, the battle system was simpler than the original (and THAT was a simple battle system to begin with). Nothing was improved over the originals flaws, and alot of it actually regressed. The puzzles are still kinda fun I guess. ----------Battle System---------- Wild Arms 2 is a turn-based RPG. The turns are laid out in rounds, for instance you choose all of…

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Wild Arms1997

Jul 22, 2008

The game has a unique setting to it, but a few things about that bugs me. While it's set in some world based off of the Wild West with guns a tootin’ and deserts, there's only one character that actually uses a gun. Actually that gun is more like a bazooka / laser gun, not really a pistol like shown on the box cover. Another thing, his primary weapon is actually a sword, and so is Jack's, and Cecilia uses a magic…

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Xenosaga: Episode III - Also Sprach Zarathustra2006

Jul 22, 2008

I liked how fast paced the battle system was for this game, but they sacrificed the combo attacks and other fun elements from the previous games to do that. I felt the graphics were dumbed down, and the cutscenes were shorter, which was also a unique thing about the other two games. There's barely any sidequests in this game. There was just alot of things that didn't fell right, I enjoyed it for the most part, but…

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Xenosaga: Episode II - Jenseits von Gut und Böse2004

Jul 22, 2008

Overall, I think the story, graphics, sound and world map was all improved. I have mix feelings with the battle system, since I think it was improved in some areas, but entirely messed up in others. They added a bunch more sidequests in the game, and the dungeons require actual thought at some points, so I think the game as a whole was improved. Otherwise, it's the same ol' game you played before. Even with all of…

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Xenosaga: Episode I - Der Wille zur Macht2003

Jul 22, 2008

Even though the battle system had plenty of depth to it, and the story was pretty enjoyable, I was still left pretty empty with Xenosaga. I spent over 40 hours with this game, and most of that was micro managing and cutscenes. I felt like I didn't accomplish anything. ----------Battle System---------- Xenosaga is a standard turn-based RPG. There's six playable characters in all, but at the start of the game a couple…

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X-Men: Legends II - Rise of Apocalypse2005

Jul 22, 2008

Overall the game was a huge improvement over the original but in the level designs. They're bigger and less linear, but still generic looking and boring. ----------Battle System---------- X-Men Legends 2: Rise of Apocalypse is a 3rd person / top down view Action / Dungeon Crawling RPG. Just about everything is the same from the last game, so I'll try to spend this time talking about the differences. When you level…

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X-Men: Legends2004

Jul 22, 2008

The story was ok, the battle system was pretty fun, although a bit to much button mashing. The only problems I had with the game was the weak dialog they gave Magma, the cheap level design, stupid AI, and dying from falling off of cliffs. Otherwise this was a pretty good game. ----------Battle System---------- X-Men Legends is an action / RPG with a top down view and a PC dungeon crawler feel to it. All the battles…

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Virtual Hydlide1995

Jul 22, 2008

Out of all the Saturn RPGs, this is easily the worst one. Heck, I might even say this is worse than Quest 64, actually I know it is. This game is generic in every sense of the word. Not only was there no story, the controls were terrible and the graphics were nauseating. I'm not just saying "nauseating" to be cute, try spinning your character around or running between some trees, you'll want to puke. The only…

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Time Stalkers1999

Jul 22, 2008

This game in alot of ways reminds me of Azure Dreams or even Tao's Adventure. You capture monsters for your team, and run around boring randomly generated maps going from floor to floor. So yeah, this game isn't very good. I love the cutscenes, but they're only used during the most important dialog scenes, which would be the opening and ending of the game. The actual game itself is completely boring. All the…

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The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age2004

Jul 22, 2008

I had some mild hopes for this game. I'm a big Final Fantasy fan, I liked the Lord of the Rings movies and I loved the videos I saw of the game. I didn't expect it to be separated in chapters and I was expecting atleast some freedom in the game, not just battle to battle situations that this game turned out to be. I also didn't expect the story to be so bad. Nothing lived up to my expectations, but luckily I only…

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The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess2006

Jul 22, 2008

While alot of people say this is a clone of Ocarina of Time, I would have to disagree with them. While there is a few connections that annoyed me, like the frozen Zora Domain, the fact that Link lives in a tree, and the fishing pond, the rest is pretty much all new. Sure you'll have your main 3 characters from the Zelda game like Link, Zelda and Gannon, and Epona comes along as well. Other than those 4 characters,…

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The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker2002

Jul 22, 2008

Wind Waker was a great game, although I was very skeptical at first and it did take be a while to get use to all the sailing, but otherwise I had a ton of fun and it was a worthy sequel to Ocarina of Time. They did enough to make it different, but also kept enough to keep it familiar. The story was really good, one of the better stories for Zelda, it just seemed really rushed at the end. ----------Battle…

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The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures2004

Jul 22, 2008

Four Swords Adventures had a good story, nostalgic graphics, and some of the best gameplay seen on a current gen system. The game disappointed me with the use of chapters, but I got over it. The minigames are fun, and if you have 3 buddies with GBA links, then you should get a ton of replay value out of this. The single player is satisfying enough, but overall one of the best multiplayer games I've ever played. I…

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The Legend of Dragoon1999

Jul 22, 2008

Overall this game was great, but not quite on a PS1 era Final Fantasy level that they desperately tried to achieve. The battle system is kinda original, but not quite as fleshed out or as fun as later games like Shadow Hearts and felt a little tacked on. There's only a few sidequests to be found in the game and you can't complete them until the end. Leveling up just takes way to slow for me. They split the…

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The Bard's Tale2004

Jul 22, 2008

At the beginning of this game, I found it extremely difficult, but once I started to get use to the summon system and I started leveling up gaining new attacks and weapons, the game just got overly simple. I still died plenty of times, but I never was frustrated by anything since there was always save points around. The game marks your next destination(s) on the map with a yellow marker, so it's always simple to…

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Tales of the Abyss2005

Jul 22, 2008

Tales of the Abyss certainly wasn't a bad game, I've played much worse RPGs. There was just to many things that annoyed me and there just wasn't anything new about this it. There was nothing improved over Tales of Symphonia, and many things, including the story was recycled from Symphonia. I REALLY wanted to like this game, but it was just a big disappointment. The story was generic, the characters were frustrating.…

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Tales of Legendia2006

Jul 22, 2008

I'm a big fan of the early Tales of games like Phantasia and Destiny, so I was expecting something on par with those. I kinda got that I guess, the battle system was atleast close to par (where's my Tempest attacks?), but the story didn't "grab" me like the other Tales of games I've played. The biggest flaw in the game is the weak weak weak weak dungeons, luckily they're short, otherwise my mind would of dried up…

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Tales of Destiny1997

Jul 22, 2008

I originally played Tales of Destiny back in 1998 or 1999 when I borrowed it from my cousin. This was my first Tales of game, since at this point it was the only one to reach the American shores, but what a game it was for me back then. 2D rpgs seemed dead in the water at this point, there was Wild Arms, Suikoden, Legend of Oasis and a handful of others, but Final Fantasy 7 created a wave of 3D. Tales of Destiny was…

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Summoner: A Goddess Reborn is a buggy 3rd Person/Action RPG.

Jul 22, 2008

Stupid things about the game bugged me, the biggest one is enemies will often stop in their tracks if they don't see you, even if you've attacked them. There was one annoying scene where the assassin Sangrial is sneaking behind enemies lines and I sniped one with a bow, so another ran around yelling "ALERT! ALERT!" yet everyone else didn't move until I shot them with a bow. The dialog was very bad at times. There's…

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Summoner2000

Jul 22, 2008

Summoner is a boring game. The battle system was boring because for one it was slow, you really don't do much with it and the hit ratio slowed everything down. I haven't played a game with loading times this bad since GTA: Vice City about 3 years ago. The graphics are painfully outdated and overall ugly. Why does everyone look like a corpse? You backtrack alot in the game, so it's not very big at all. Each town will…

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Suikoden Tactics2005

Jul 22, 2008

Suikoden Tactics was pretty fun, despite being the most unoriginal game I've played in a while. Nothing about it was new to me, but the combat was still fun and I liked the storyline and how it finished up the story in Suikoden IV. The game could be a little difficult at times, I died atleast 40 times in this game. Luckily, you get to restart at your last battle with all the experience you earned during it, so you…

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Suikoden IV2004

Jul 22, 2008

Suikoden IV seemed like a return to form in a sense. There was alot of throwbacks to the first two Suikodens from the battle system to the Unite attacks, to the world map, and loads of other things. This is definitely a different beast compared to Suikoden III. The storyline is ALOT weaker, with more forgettable characters, but the battle system is a little simpler and fun. I love the non-linear-ness of the game, I…

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Suikoden III2002

Jul 22, 2008

I really did not like the battle system change. It made boss fights frustrating at times. I liked how much detail they put into the character models, and the characters themselves. Almost all the characters had a rich storyline, and most of them were important to the story. I loved the story and characters alot, but I think because of the high emphasis on storyline and characters really made the game painfully…

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Suikoden II1998

Jul 22, 2008

Suikoden II improved on most of the things the first game laid out on the table, but it still fell in a few traps that I hated about the original. I'll start with the good side of things. For one, the graphics are alot sharper, more detailed characters, better looking towns and world map. The story has alot more depth to it, although I really hated the wooden main character. This is very story driven game, and I…

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