Ari_Gold said:
thats my runner up for rpg game of the year |
Well that's pretty good. Second place for this year is an accomplishment.
I think JD'Arc has a nice combat system, good level design, fairly good story (but see below for a negative), fair level of complexity and decent art direction. It's playable right up to the very end of the main story and has a bonus feature for playing on after the end that is fairly good for these sort of things. I would guess the main story is about 25-30 hours which is a very nice length for a SRPG.
Negative points: The bosses that you fight over and over again. They never seem to die. The loading of animations from the UMD is very irritating when it's happening in the middle of a battle. The skill stone system is interesting but seems overly complex. The godspeed powerup is broken in the sense that it becomes the primary consideration in combat.
The game overall was entertaining and I would recommend it to any fan of the SRPG genre.
