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famousringo on 11 December 2008
Kasz216 said:
Darc Requiem said:
My brother had this game on PS2 and didn't care for it very much. I haven't played it personally but it doesn't seem to be revered like other NIS games. I have a feeling that we will be seeing a lot of NIS on the Wii. The high userbase, low dev costs, and their small size seems to make the Wii and NIS a good match.

That's because the story wasn't focused on being funny.  Which is what NIS games basically hang their hats on.  People love the stories fall in love with them and keep grinding.

The circular movements combined with the unique ways you gain skills though makes the game head and tails above the rest in gameplay though.


Encouraging. Maybe I won't have to buy a DS to get my SRPG fix.

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Stats87 on 11 December 2008
Kasz216 said:
Stats87 said:
The other NIS SRPG on the PS2 was Makai Kingdom

Don't forget Soul Nomad and the World Devourers.

Which probably has even better gameplay then Phantom Brave... but it's a mix of SRPG genres so i didn't include it.

It's like a regular SRPG and Ogre battle combined in some way.

 

ahh yes, I had a feeling I was missing one

 



Kasz216 on 11 December 2008
famousringo said:
Kasz216 said:
Darc Requiem said:
My brother had this game on PS2 and didn't care for it very much. I haven't played it personally but it doesn't seem to be revered like other NIS games. I have a feeling that we will be seeing a lot of NIS on the Wii. The high userbase, low dev costs, and their small size seems to make the Wii and NIS a good match.

That's because the story wasn't focused on being funny.  Which is what NIS games basically hang their hats on.  People love the stories fall in love with them and keep grinding.

The circular movements combined with the unique ways you gain skills though makes the game head and tails above the rest in gameplay though.


Encouraging. Maybe I won't have to buy a DS to get my SRPG fix.

Who am I kidding?

I know how you feel.  How it works though is you gain your skills through the weapons you equip... swords, spears etc.

HOWEVER, you can equip other items as weapons that grant you skills as well.  You can swing trees at opponets, Throw Starfish, Cactus'  etc.

You gain your special effects that way... with different special attacks being tied to different stats... so you might get one attack whose damage is decided by your Magic resistance... etc so there is a lot of min-maxing that can be done.  The different element stuff is of course there as well...

You can fuse together items to make them more powerful, people to make them more powerful and get new abilties, and you can tie the special abilties that are tied to a weapon to a particular person instead by fusing the person and the weapon together.

 

 



BTFeather55 on 11 December 2008

It is not new.



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pearljammer on 11 December 2008
Kasz216 said:

Gameplay wise it's the best Nippon Ichi SRPG out there.  Story wise it was the worst though, but only because it was more serious then the others.  It was a good story just not my kind of story.  I don't care about girls with no friends who want friends.

Looks like it's just a port.

Still promising in regards to future NIS development.

 

That's precisely what I thought. It was the story/characters that made Disgaea so damned memorable, I just thought the game lacked charm compared to their other titles.

I haven't played Soul Nomad, would you/anyone recommend?

 



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Kasz216 on 11 December 2008
pearljammer said:
Kasz216 said:

Gameplay wise it's the best Nippon Ichi SRPG out there.  Story wise it was the worst though, but only because it was more serious then the others.  It was a good story just not my kind of story.  I don't care about girls with no friends who want friends.

Looks like it's just a port.

Still promising in regards to future NIS development.

 

That's precisely what I thought. It was the story/characters that made Disgaea so damned memorable, I just thought the game lacked charm compared to their other titles.

I haven't played Soul Nomad, would you/anyone recommend?

 

I'd recommend it... though i haven't gotten to far into it because i started replaying Ogre Battle after a while.

Gig is a hilarious character.... multiple endings... and the different things you can do like kidnap people to be in your army can be fun.

 



BTFeather55 on 11 December 2008

Strategy rpgs on the PS2 from NIS Eternal Mana ( I think that is what it was called and that it was a strategy rpg instead of just an rpg there might have been a couple of these I'm feeling too lazy to look it up right now but it was about alchemy and there might have been an offshoot that took place at a school for alchemy ), La Pucelle Tactics, Disgaea I and II, Phantom Brave, and Makai Kingdom.



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LordTheNightKnight on 11 December 2008
pearljammer said:

Hmm, is this just a PS2 port? Or is it a new game of the same series? It very much looks like a port, although I'd love to be proven wrong.

Out of the NIS SRPG's on the PS2, this was likely my least favourite that I played behind Disgaea 1 & 2 and La Pucelle Tactics. Regardless, it was a good game and should be played by any SRPG fan who may have missed it last gen.

 

So considering the developer, the weakest is still pretty damn good.



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outlawauron on 11 December 2008
Soriku said:
So the only thing negative about it is the darker story? Eh...well, I like more serious stories, and I haven't played a NIS game before, so it would be bad for me :P But why can't NIS have more serious games and funny games at the same time?

Isn't that an oxymoron? And if you want to play it Soriku, why don't you get it on PS2? It's not likely that much change, given the nature of NIS, and it's around $10.

 



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yushire on 11 December 2008

Is Phantom brave a PSX game before? And whats SRPG?



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