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Binding: Video Game Brand: Xseed Games EAN: 0853466001094 ESRB Age Rating: Everyone 10+ Label: Xseed Games Manufacturer: Xseed Games Platform: Sony PSP Publisher: Xseed Games Release Date: October 01, 2008 Sales Rank: 3577 Studio: Xseed Games
Features:
Enjoy the vast selection of weapons, armors, and enhanced magic all visible on the in-game character models.
Intense real-time 6-on-6 battles requiring tactical combat strategies and controlling various party members rather than button mashing.
Increased customization gives each player a unique experience, allowing players to change skills, race and appearance over 100,000 possible combinations.
Encounter up to 245 different types of monsters, including Samurai, Zombies, Gargoyles, Dragons, and Minotaur; play online with friends- Network Play- Connect for two-player Co-op adventures and Versus battles, or trade items and weapons.
Improvements to the Quest system with an increased number of quests and the ability to suspend or cancel quests.
Product Description: When the goddess descended from the heavens, mortal kind was crushed beneath her glass wings. Countless people lost their lives, and those lucky enough to survive could do nothing but tremble in desperate hopelessness at her great power. A lone enchanter fought the goddess and was able to wound her, but alone could not defeat her. The goddess dispersed her evil servants throughout the land in retaliation and hid herself within the world to recover. It has been nearly a thousand years since those events and mortal kind is still scouring the earth in hopes of finding and defeating the hidden goddess. The Kingdom of Weishelheim supports the best of these, Latroci or sanctioned adventurers, with an official status once they prove their valor. And thus, on the day of the examination to become an official adventurer, your adventure begins. Sequel to the hit PSP title released in April 2007, Valhalla Knights 2 returns with more features, content and freedom of customization, letting you create the ultimate battle party. Additional races, job classes, weapons and monsters enhance the real-time tactical team combat as players follow an original story created by the scenario writer of Final Fantasy XII, Miwa Shoda.
Improvements to the Quest system with an increased number of quests and the ability to suspend or cancel quests
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Walk on Down, a lot.
Valhalla Knights 2 is much the same as the First game, you complete quests, gain levels, etc.
The GOOD: The Graphics are excellent. Easily the best point in the game. LOTS of areas to explore. Story is good, sound is good, and the Colliseum is a nice touch for quick leveling. And a Massive amount of quests to complete.
The BAD : Your going to do a lot of walking. There are no waypoint, or partals in the game. You'll have to trudge through several areas just to get where your going. With so many quests to do, sometimes its hard to figure out which to move the story along.
Aside form the constant time consuming walking, I'd Highly recommend this.
Rating: - Satisfying Successor
I am something of an RPG freak, and as far as Valhalla Knights 2 goes, I was definitely satisfied. There are elements from the first Valhalla knights that are improved upon, such as extended character customization, which really helped make this game a win for me.
PROS
- The story was interesting and I was intrigued from the beginning. Though this is a dungeon crawler and there is lots of grinding involved, there is a coherent story also.
- The graphics are great for a PSP game. Everything looked crisp and clear on my screen.
-The battle system and subsequent battles are fast paced and exciting, but there is also an element of strategy involved. For you to be successful in battle, you can set up your character's formation, equip them with various different equipment. This is done before the battles actually start however. The game gives you ample time to prepare and countless enemies to gain experience from.
-The amount of customization is fantastic. There are hundreds of different weapons and armor types, the more powerful ones discovered as you become more powerful. You can also customize your class. You choose one class to start with (Fighter, Mage, Priest, Thief, or Monk) but you are not limited to this one class. In fact, you level up faster if you choose more than one class. For instance, you can choose to start as a Fighter and then when you reach level 10, choose to be a Monk and you'll start over at level 1 BUT still have the level 10 hit points and stats. Lastly, VH2 gives you the option to customize your characters appearance and race. For each different race, there are a selection of hairstyles and face types to choose from.
-The game is definitely not too easy. Items have to be analyzed before you can equip them or sell them, and the enemies become more difficult as you gain more experience.
CONS
-The only place you can save is at the hub town. This is easily remedied by pausing the game and then turning your PSP in sleep mode.
-There are no warp gates back to the hub town, which means to reach an area, you have to pass through the areas before it. However, once you fulfill your given quest, you can use the item ESCAPE CARD which takes you all the way back to the hub town's save point immediately. The escape card is available at the hub town's armory.
Overall this game is a great choice for those who enjoyed the first Valhalla Knights and love a good dungeon crawler.
Rating: - Avoid at all costs
The PSP has been plagued with bad RPGs and Valhalla Knights is no exception. In fact, it probably takes the cake as the worst of them all. Almost every aspect of this game is bad. I could write a 20 page paper elaborating on every bad point but I'll keep it to bulletpoints.
* Little to no story and what is there is mind-numbingly boring.
* Constant backtracking. There is only one path through the entire game and everytime you go out and come back you have to go through every point in that path. There are Escape cards that can bring you back to town but they are expensive and you get so little money from anything in this game. To make matters worse, I have yet to find a revive spell (20 hrs in) so everytime one of your party members die you have to run all the way back to the town to revive them then run all the way back to where you were.
* Every item you find needs to be analysed, even if you have already found and analysed it before. This is punishing at the beginning of the game when it costs 100g to get something analysed that you can sell for 110g. Oh, and if you do not analyse it you can only sell it for 10g.
* Battles are over in about 5-7 seconds. Part of the fun of RPGs is setting up strategies for battles. Unfortunately, you cannot even navigate a menu before the battle ends. This makes Magic users useless and fighters are relegated to hack and slash.
* I have yet to find a weapon in this game that is stronger than any other weapon. The only differences I have seen is in their status effects.
* There is NO explainations on anything in this game. You wind up guessing or accidentially running into something that may help your character.
* Graphics are bad. Probably some of the ugliest character models I have ever seen.
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I could go on and on. Do yourself a favor and avoid this game. It is boring beyond believe. Thank God I kept the shrink wrap intact because this game is going back.
If you want another opinion go to RPGamer. I agree with everything they said.
- Walk on Down, a lot.
- Satisfying Successor
- Avoid at all costs
