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If you like the Tales games, Tales of Symphonia on the GC is an amazing RPG. Brilliant plot, memorable skits and characters and the Devil's Arms sidequest (and  Abyssion/Nebilim - HARD!) are just some of it's good points. The battle system is really nice with the characters fully customizable - different costumes, different combat skills (T or S type) and I think you can have multiplayer. It's only bad points are that a certain plot device is used a bit too much - [SPOILER]you're betrayed about five times throughout the game[/SPOILER] - and the most annoying female character ever is in the game. Apart from that though, it's fab.

At the moment I'm at level 84, 70+ hours and have the Devil's Arms, have beaten Abyssion/Nebilim and there's still loads of side-quests to do. A long and rewarding game.

Dragon Quest - Journey of the Cursed King had a pretty piss-poor storyline and a SLOW battle system. It was a little bit weird that Jessica had loads of skimpy costumes but the males had none - and her ultimate costume was a dominatrix (sp?). A bit......alienating for me.

Plus, the blonde haired girl in Blue Dragon looks very like Jessica but with blonde hair and a different outfit. I never liked Toriyama's art that much anyway (I thought it would grow on me, but alas) and the character designs look pretty uninspired. I absolutely hate the lead's design. He looks like a bloody NPC!

I don't think it's the game that will make me rush out and buy a 360 to be honest.

I got my version of DDS1 for about £50 off eBay (about $90 I think) and spent about £40 on the second. I spent about £100 ($180-ish) on both games and both came brand new. Which isn't bad.

Suprisingly, lately I've seen the DDS' now very cheap around shops (£15!) so I guess they aren't selling massively well in the UK. Atlus keep saying how their sales in Europe are pretty good though. I think Lucifer's Call was the first MT game released over here (I could be mistaken, but no Persona/Demi-Kids/Devil Summoner etc have been seen over here).

For me, online is nearly always better than shops. I was rather annoyed when I got my (massively glitchy) From The New World off eBay for £25 and then saw it Gamestation for £20. Dammit.

t's ok to like Square Enix. Hating on them stopped being cool back in '03.

What? Squaresoft and Enix were both brilliant companies - Final Fantasy 6 to 9 (my personal favourites) and Enix with its Star Ocean and Valkyrie Profile series are amoung some of my favourite games. Am I not allowed to feel disappointed due to the fact that two great companies merged together and have produced such weak results? Don't even mention Final Fantasy 12 which is possibly the most disappointing game I've ever played.

I do like SquareEnix - there are moments in their latest games which remind me of their past glories. But a company that openly admits it has more plans for re-releasing old games than making new original ones is one that has fallen from grace in my eyes.

Plus I don't own a DS (I like my PSP just fine thanks - it's got Valkyrie Profile on it : D). I'm not going to lie and say I'd like MegaTen to start coming out on the Wii/DS. Nintendo consoles, for me, have always been about the casual gamer and I can count the number of RPGs on the Gamecube on one hand. I read in the official 360 mag that the PS2 is still outselling the 360 in Japan and even Blue Dragon didn't raise the sales much. I think there will be one more MT game on the PS2 but after that....I dunno.

Because I stopped doing it, therefore it is no longer cool.

Apart from the arrogance seeping from that statement, why out of interest did you start liking them in 2003?

Fair enough. When you take into consideration the difference between Atlus and Sqauare-Enix, that does become apparent. I guess Fes will prolly go the way of Shadow Hearts Covenant - Director's Cut and never be translated.

I never did understand SE's stance on releasing to Europe an "extended" FF10 edition and not to their biggest consumers, America. Then again, anything SE does these days is subject to question.

This is the company that officially wants to re-release their old games on new formats :corkysm17

Interesting. Freudian designs all the way, huh? Well, at least they're interesting to look at.

Which Artemis would it be that you're referring to? The EP Maya Artemis didn't look very breast-like.

Dammit. Maybe it is a bad copy - I thought it was too good to be true that I mysteriously got it a day before release.

I bought two copies of Lucifer's Call and both had the same glitch - both froze at 50HZ during battles in the Amala Labyrinth randomly. I can play it fine in 60HZ though (though I didn't even know what 60HZ was when I had my first copy though).

OK, I'll try and get SH3 cheap then. Thanks much.

Having read through various walkthroughs of the deleted Snow Queen quests (16 hours of dungeon? I'm sticking with the normal game thanks!) I keep coming across a certain event - where "Toro" (I think that's Chunky) turns into some sort of horrible demon. As in, hentai horrible ("a very sexually explicit demon"). Out of pure curiosity (don't worry, I'm not a perv or anything) I was wondering if anyone has a picture or can describe this demon to me.

The only thing I can come up with is the Mishaguji (sp?) demon from the latest Devil Summoner. I didn't actually notice it until I ran across a rather childish, obnoxious review where the reviewer spent about half a page rambling on about "penis head" - Mishaguji. I saw what the reviewer meant (I didn't find it as amusing as he did however) and related this to the Toro demon.

So, my question is - was the Toro demon an early version of Mishaguji? And what does this grotesque demon in the Queen quest look like? A lot of walkthroughs go on about it but none of them elaborate on what it is.

Thanks.

Hi guys. Bought this fab RPG off eBay a few days before the release here in the UK and thought I was getting a good deal.

However -

There's something very wrong with the battles. As those who have played the Shadow Hearts will know, the battle system camera focuses on the character model and their attacks quite a bit so imagine my suprise when (after the near flawless Covenant) -

1) The physics engine on all the characters seems to have a bad case of tourettes. For no reason at all, characters hair, boobs and clothes will all suddenly veer off in a random direction! Johnnys little tuft of hair constantly "spazzes" (sorry to use the term, but it's all I can think to describe it as) for a split second and then returns to normal again! Shania's breasts do the exact same, even in Fusion form. Ina game that uses something such as the Judgement Ring, this is a pretty annoying thing to suddenly see when trying to hit criticals.

2) Special Attacks seem to have whole frames of animation missing. Mao's Cat Touch's sound effects are about 2-3 seconds behind the actual animation. Also, just before the finishing blow, the enemy completely disappears! Another example is Shania's ultimate Fusion form Tiwara. In her final attack Sun Flare, there is a scene that is supposed to show her brandishing one of her swords and then another. This doesn't happen, and instead her breasts go mental (wibbling everywhere) and the animation of brandishing one of her swords literally has about 2 frames (she stands still and then suddenly has on sword up in the air, with no movement inbetween). Although this doesn't affect the game itself (I've since completed it) it cheapens it so much.

So, my question to you is - have I been done and got some beta copy or something? The voice acting etc is completely fine it's just this bizarre glitchy battle system. Does anyone elses copy have these things in them?

I'll be honest - I'll be annoyed either way. I'll either have to shell out for anther copy or this is the second Ghostlight published game I've bought that's had pretty bad bugs in it. My other Ghostlight game was Lucifer's Call, which froze every single time I played it in 50HZ. I could play the game for ages, but then for no reason at all in a battle, the thing would just freeze.

Thanks much and I hope someone knows what the hell I'm going on about : D

Hey people. Sorry I haven't been on for a while but I've been pretty busy - I went to university this year and moved quite far away from home. Plus I had Persona 2 ET, Devil Summoner and Persona Rev. to complete : D

I was just wondering - is it possible there's a chance that Persona Fes will be released in Europe? America is getting the standard version - albeit with a very nice artbook and soundtrack, which I shall be ordering on import at some point - but do you think that Atlus will have translated Fes in time for Europe? On Amazon.co.uk it says Persona 3 will be released in 2008 (screw that release date for a game of conkers!) but doesn't state what version it is.

I'm wondering this because a similar thing happened with Final Fantasy 10 (I believe - I could be wrong). I have read that America got the "normal" FF10 whilst Europe got the "International" version. This has something to do with the Dark Aeons apparently. Could someone who owns the NTSC game tell me if they exist in the game? I own the PAL version (I live in the UK) and the Dark Aeon sidequest is pretty damn hard.

Either way, I'm supremely looking forward to this game - Devil Summoner was good but some parts were disappointing (why was the town and dungeon music repeated so much? What the hell was wrong with Beezlebub's voice? An old man?!) and after completing (finally) Persona 2 (with that FRICKING Alice! Took me hours finding her!) and now a good 20 hours into Persona Rev. Im in a Persona sort of mood.

NB For anyone who remembers, I finished my Persona Rev. booklet. I will try to get you some pictures when I move back to my student house.

Thank you.

October 10th? I'll guess a few of 'em will be turning up on eBay. I'm buying DS unless I find it has review scores to be abyssmal or something.


Awww lucky. I want pre-order fun stuff :(

You'll have to have your PS2 chipped or modded to play back-up games and then it should play the burnt disc.

I'm immensely interested in this - although I haven't played them yet due to region constraints, the Persona series in full (as in all three on PS1) would be grand.

Out of interest Tony, where did you get Innocent Sin from? I've never seen it anywhere to buy, no matter how much I scour eBay.

I liked Atelier Iris (the original) and Star Ocean 2 for hand-painted sprites. I've seen Saga Frontier 2 but I hear it's like Unlimited - you'll either be part of the minority who love but will most likely hate it.

Wha? Just how many FF13 games are there?!

I'm now totally confuzzled.

It's not really the "let's sell this game!" for me. I know if I had seen a Call full page ad in a PS2 magazine, I would've been very interested. Actually, I first laid eyes on Call on Amazon, where I first mistook it for a platformer (?). It's just annoying that due to the lack of publicity, I missed out on the initial reviews on the game etc.

And yes, DQ is...pretty awful. Much like Unlimited Saga, the price has dropped quite rapidly over here as well.