A great time killer. This game doesn't break any ground in the RPG genre but it doesnt suck either.

User Rating: 8.3 | Tales of Legendia PS2
By _AbBaNdOn | Review Date:
I cant tell the difference between the story of one rpg over the next anymore but this game does have a nicely fleshed out story. You wont find any huge gaping story holes in this game. Some of the character types are typical but they have been mixed with different attitudes to make them feel kinda new. The battle system is..kinda boring, i mean its better than being put to sleep with menu systems from FF style games. You can have up to 4 guys in a fight and they are all on the same sidescrolling path. You knock the bad guys back and forth from one side of the screen to the other or pile them up in a corner and some of your characters run away when people get to close. You have a crappy 3 hit combo and you learn special attacks which you can change out whenever, you only get to have 4-5 active specials at a time.

The battle xp is kinda wierd. You get rated on a bunch of things and it gives you an overall rating which affects your rewards or xp or something. Sometimes i would get 100 xp sometimes i would get 200. I mever did get any more than that though lol? Which makes leveling kinda hard as you get more powerful.

I saw that it keeps tracks of how mny times you have played through the game so it looks like it will have some kinda new game+ and replay value.

Nothing turned me off about this game but then again nothing made me want to not put it down and play something else. I hated taking it back cuz i know i will totally forget the storyline and stuff by the next time i get around to playing it lol, but i have better things to do.

Im kinda sick of RPG's and there combat systems. I want rpg storylines with hack n slash gameplay. I cant wait for .hack: G.U. , Phantasy Star Online , and Rogue Galaxy. But now igot something to do when i m bored waiting for those.

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