| think-man said: Looking for a good oldschool JRPG to play, I've nearly played them all except this one. For some reason this title kept slipping off my radar I've played the spiritual successors on the ps2 years ago but didnt like them much. Has anyone played this recently and can give me a good reason to try/ not try it?
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Played it, finished it, went back to it multiple times, finished it multiple times. It's worth playing.
Combat is Legend of Legaia light. It uses a similar method of inputting attacks, but don't expect any deep custom combos where you can do multiple combos together each turn as it doesn't work that way without stocking your AP. In Xenogears you'll be using your most powerful attack every turn so there's really no reason to use anything less than your most powerful attack unless you're using the 7AP attacks that are elemental and the enemy absorbs the element.
Story is great, but second disc is several hours worth of storyline with little gameplay in between that and when you can finish the game. Dungeons and towns are designed with platforming in mind which is a really nice quality. While the game is reading random battles though, if you are on the ground, you can't jump, so can cause a problem on systems you can't hear the disc read. If you want to hear the disc read and know when random battles are about to start, play it on the PSX. Despite what people may falsely inform you, if you're already mid air, you cannot get into a battle unless you land on a spot that is a battle regardless, so no you're not going to get in a battle then drop straight down after battle.
Great music. Also has a few fun mini games. A fighting game. Also a card game where you have four hands with one face up card on each, the opponent as well, two hands in the middle and you can put the next card higher or lower and your objective is to get rid of all of your cards.
Decent amount of end game content. An area where enemies give you quite a bit of money and equip with some of the best armor and weapon drops in the game. Also a lighthouse with a little bit of extra story with the most powerful gear equipment in the game and items which permanently increase stat values for characters.
