Good as in "playable anime" good. People rave about the battle system, but the game suffers from having incredible ideas as far as combat is concerned and then being incredibly easy. The only challenge comes from an ultra-frustrating and difficult to navigate optional dungeon that has a small boss rush at the end and encounters that can one-shot your party after well over an hour of navigating with no saves. I guess too if you skipped all three optional dungeons the last boss might have been hard, but the one and only time I played through the game, my party was cracked from all the optional dungeon treasures and though the last boss was easy he still had a crazy amount of health and took a while to take down.
The sense of adventure is unmatched though by any JRPG I've ever played which is saying something. I know it's this studio's bread and butter but they really nailed it here. Lots of good comic relief moments and interesting locales to visit. The game has a LOT of optional dialogue kind of like Xenosaga -- most npcs have 2 if not 3 different dialogue sequences if you talk to them multiple times, your party will have a little pow-wow if you camp in the middle of dungeons, and you can talk to everyone in your party at dinner at the inn. Most all of these dialogues change at almost every plot trigger too.
On an aside, Grandia 2 had a Hard Mode which actually lived up to the name and took more advantage of the uniqueness of the combat systems in the first game, but is faaaaaar more tropey and managed to feel like a few steps back in plot and characterization (but still decent worldbuilding)
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Its either a bot or moron just being contrarian for engagement.
It makes no sense.
Any post he will disagree with, he's essentially self bumping his thread and doesn't know a better way of doing it.
Your original post
what a load of shit
was quoting this
Good as in "playable anime" good. People rave about the battle system, but the game suffers from having incredible ideas as far as combat is concerned and then being incredibly easy. The only challenge comes from an ultra-frustrating and difficult to navigate optional dungeon that has a small boss rush at the end and encounters that can one-shot your party after well over an hour of navigating with no saves. I guess too if you skipped all three optional dungeons the last boss might have been hard, but the one and only time I played through the game, my party was cracked from all the optional dungeon treasures and though the last boss was easy he still had a crazy amount of health and took a while to take down.
The sense of adventure is unmatched though by any JRPG I've ever played which is saying something. I know it's this studio's bread and butter but they really nailed it here. Lots of good comic relief moments and interesting locales to visit. The game has a LOT of optional dialogue kind of like Xenosaga -- most NPCs have 2 if not 3 different dialogue sequences if you talk to them multiple times, your party will have a little pow-wow if you camp in the middle of dungeons, and you can talk to everyone in your party at dinner at the inn. Most all of these dialogues change at almost every plot trigger too.
On an aside, Grandia 2 had a Hard Mode which actually lived up to the name and took more advantage of the uniqueness of the combat systems in the first game, but is faaaaaar more tropey and managed to feel like a few steps back in plot and characterization (but still decent worldbuilding)
and I made no mention about the graphics.
2 years ago
Anonymous
None of those posts are mine lol (except the obvious one)
Needless confrontational agitprop posting, for Grandia...
For what purpose?
2 years ago
Anonymous
Anon was probably right about it being a bot. Its sad how much of this website is misguided people talking to robots.
Lots of words for little content. Can tell what kind of game you'd make. >kiddy jrpg is not hard enough
Newsflash, most people didn't even find the optional dungeons on a first play through. You'd normally give Sue mana eggs, don't level up water significantly early on, miss extra mana eggs and loot, etcetera. The game is designed for the actual carefree adventure of a kid going in blind. The consensus on the game is correct. It did atb battle right and had positioning and attack timing while being ultra accessible, while the likes of square couldn't even get the first part right in multiple tries.
The game is easy as a necessity of its poor progression design though. It reeks of a game where the developers realized late they didn't communicate the magic system & sue role properly and play testers were getting stuck so they just reduced the difficulty throughout the game to compensate for their frick up instead of fixing it.
And who replays a 70 hour game to experience 1 optional dungeon in the last stretch lol.
>kiddy jrpg is not hard enough
I would have found this easy as a kid too though. Comparatively speaking there were enough JRPGs aimed at the same age range released before Grandia that were more difficult that it is worth mentioning the difficulty.
Played it for the first time two years ago. It's fine. Nothing mind-blowing as an adult though I can see how as a kid it'd have been. Has charm enough.
Had to play with the Japanese audio tho and I'm not someone who usually cares, but I just couldn't take the dub seriously.
Its either a bot or moron just being contrarian for engagement.
It makes no sense.
Any post he will disagree with, he's essentially self bumping his thread and doesn't know a better way of doing it.
No it's really bad. Based on the ps1 version instead of the superior saturn version. And they fricked up lots of stuff like filtering and putting things in the wrong aspect ratio etc. Just awful.
It was designed for Saturn as the primary console so it was molded around what the Saturn could do.
This was still in the era of floating vertices in PS games.
no, emulate the original
the remaster uses the buggy psx version (even though they lied to everyone and said they would use the original) and it forces you to keep a shitty filter on all sprites
Bump, have it on my wishlist.
Good as in "playable anime" good. People rave about the battle system, but the game suffers from having incredible ideas as far as combat is concerned and then being incredibly easy. The only challenge comes from an ultra-frustrating and difficult to navigate optional dungeon that has a small boss rush at the end and encounters that can one-shot your party after well over an hour of navigating with no saves. I guess too if you skipped all three optional dungeons the last boss might have been hard, but the one and only time I played through the game, my party was cracked from all the optional dungeon treasures and though the last boss was easy he still had a crazy amount of health and took a while to take down.
The sense of adventure is unmatched though by any JRPG I've ever played which is saying something. I know it's this studio's bread and butter but they really nailed it here. Lots of good comic relief moments and interesting locales to visit. The game has a LOT of optional dialogue kind of like Xenosaga -- most npcs have 2 if not 3 different dialogue sequences if you talk to them multiple times, your party will have a little pow-wow if you camp in the middle of dungeons, and you can talk to everyone in your party at dinner at the inn. Most all of these dialogues change at almost every plot trigger too.
On an aside, Grandia 2 had a Hard Mode which actually lived up to the name and took more advantage of the uniqueness of the combat systems in the first game, but is faaaaaar more tropey and managed to feel like a few steps back in plot and characterization (but still decent worldbuilding)
what a load of shit
What's wrong with it
Saturn version looks better
Your original post
was quoting this
and I made no mention about the graphics.
None of those posts are mine lol (except the obvious one)
Needless confrontational agitprop posting, for Grandia...
For what purpose?
Anon was probably right about it being a bot. Its sad how much of this website is misguided people talking to robots.
It's still one of my favorite games in the genre, but I'm not going to be dishonest in my critique
Lots of words for little content. Can tell what kind of game you'd make.
>kiddy jrpg is not hard enough
Newsflash, most people didn't even find the optional dungeons on a first play through. You'd normally give Sue mana eggs, don't level up water significantly early on, miss extra mana eggs and loot, etcetera. The game is designed for the actual carefree adventure of a kid going in blind. The consensus on the game is correct. It did atb battle right and had positioning and attack timing while being ultra accessible, while the likes of square couldn't even get the first part right in multiple tries.
The game is easy as a necessity of its poor progression design though. It reeks of a game where the developers realized late they didn't communicate the magic system & sue role properly and play testers were getting stuck so they just reduced the difficulty throughout the game to compensate for their frick up instead of fixing it.
And who replays a 70 hour game to experience 1 optional dungeon in the last stretch lol.
>kiddy jrpg is not hard enough
I would have found this easy as a kid too though. Comparatively speaking there were enough JRPGs aimed at the same age range released before Grandia that were more difficult that it is worth mentioning the difficulty.
Played it for the first time two years ago. It's fine. Nothing mind-blowing as an adult though I can see how as a kid it'd have been. Has charm enough.
Had to play with the Japanese audio tho and I'm not someone who usually cares, but I just couldn't take the dub seriously.
Grandia 2 is fine, but they fricked up the sprites in 1. As far as I know it has not been fixed in a patch.
It's a charming adventure rpg. Better than crap modern Ganker likes such as Xenoblade
Lookin' good.
Right looks better
looks like shit man
>inb4 "50U1 vs 50UII355"
left one looks better tho
Its either a bot or moron just being contrarian for engagement.
It makes no sense.
Any post he will disagree with, he's essentially self bumping his thread and doesn't know a better way of doing it.
what's up schizo
No, play it in 240p on a CRT or with a filter
Play the Saturn version with translation
No it's really bad. Based on the ps1 version instead of the superior saturn version. And they fricked up lots of stuff like filtering and putting things in the wrong aspect ratio etc. Just awful.
What's superior about the Saturn version
It was designed for Saturn as the primary console so it was molded around what the Saturn could do.
This was still in the era of floating vertices in PS games.
OK but you didn't answer my question.
Ok
A lot of the textures were fricked up on the PS1 version because of how the Saturn handled them, mainly tile sets improperly rendering on the flooring
If you can stomach forced filters maybe. I wouldn't recommend it, emulate the original.
no, emulate the original
the remaster uses the buggy psx version (even though they lied to everyone and said they would use the original) and it forces you to keep a shitty filter on all sprites
grandia 1 has a really good adventure story
i finished this game after 6 months of playing