I wanted to do a quick post on Vagrant Story. After not playing it for a little bit, I stuck it in and tried picking up where I left off from a few days/weeks ago. The first boss fight I reached I eventually died after getting pretty far. This was kinda upsetting, and was enough for me to put the game down and move on for the time being. I may eventually come back, but it's no use playing a game that I'm not having much fun with. Since I can't give a full review, I wanted to write down my impression since I only made it about ~25% of the way through. The graphics are absolutely gorgeous and it's surprising they look that good on the PS1. From there though, my criticisms get harsher. The story is not very enticing and pretty confusing with them explaining very little. You will go for long periods with little story interaction, so it is hard to get motivated to play and continue on. The sound is pretty pathetic. The battle system is confusing and not structured very well. Pounding the action button until I get an attack is not very fun or intuitive. What makes the battle system worse is the weapon system. The weapon system has great potential, and could have been great. Each weapon has three different traits that pair up to enemy's traits. The more you use it against certain enemies, the more it builds up against those enemies. The problem stems from you only having six weapons and endless combinations of weapon traits. Also, to try and maximize your weapons, you are constantly changing weapons against each different monster you face. Being that the changing weapons is way more complex, slow, and cumbersome than needed, this process gets old, QUICK. Even if you change weapons for each monster type you come across, when you reach a boss, you will do 1HP of damage per turn, if you can hit him, while he's wailing on you and your risk stat increases, making the fight go worse. For all of the negatives I spilled off, the game is pretty mediocre. When it's good, like for the story when it comes and actually completing tasks, it's good. It just has some obvious flaws and areas they could have easily improved upon.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Vagrant Story
I wanted to do a quick post on Vagrant Story. After not playing it for a little bit, I stuck it in and tried picking up where I left off from a few days/weeks ago. The first boss fight I reached I eventually died after getting pretty far. This was kinda upsetting, and was enough for me to put the game down and move on for the time being. I may eventually come back, but it's no use playing a game that I'm not having much fun with. Since I can't give a full review, I wanted to write down my impression since I only made it about ~25% of the way through. The graphics are absolutely gorgeous and it's surprising they look that good on the PS1. From there though, my criticisms get harsher. The story is not very enticing and pretty confusing with them explaining very little. You will go for long periods with little story interaction, so it is hard to get motivated to play and continue on. The sound is pretty pathetic. The battle system is confusing and not structured very well. Pounding the action button until I get an attack is not very fun or intuitive. What makes the battle system worse is the weapon system. The weapon system has great potential, and could have been great. Each weapon has three different traits that pair up to enemy's traits. The more you use it against certain enemies, the more it builds up against those enemies. The problem stems from you only having six weapons and endless combinations of weapon traits. Also, to try and maximize your weapons, you are constantly changing weapons against each different monster you face. Being that the changing weapons is way more complex, slow, and cumbersome than needed, this process gets old, QUICK. Even if you change weapons for each monster type you come across, when you reach a boss, you will do 1HP of damage per turn, if you can hit him, while he's wailing on you and your risk stat increases, making the fight go worse. For all of the negatives I spilled off, the game is pretty mediocre. When it's good, like for the story when it comes and actually completing tasks, it's good. It just has some obvious flaws and areas they could have easily improved upon.
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