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Wild Arms: The 4th Detonator... is just too frustrating. Too hard. I am at the end... and now normal enemy battles are getting harder than the boss battles. So I just quit... I mean, I totally lost all interest in the story because I had to quit playing for exams... and since then I played all the way through Musashiden 2, AND I started Grandia III.
Wild Arms was okay... but it just pales in comparison to most Squaresoft games(Yes, I know Wild Arms is not a Square game, but there's really no way to hide the fact that it isn't by Square... :/). No, I refuse to call them SquareEnix. :( I wish they kept their name Squaresoft. :( ;_; There was nothing like seeing that logo at the beginning of a new game... Then that darn merge screwed it up forever. :( There was a time when Squaresoft games... were all just so amazing, if you saw that logo... you could tell right then and there that the game would be amazing. Except for the Saga Frontier games... no one liked those, but everyone knew to avoid those. But I'm talking even before that... Seiken Densetsu 2 and 3... Chrono Trigger... Final Fantasy 4-6... When they didn't release a new game every month, like they have been doing all year. Squaresoft was really good until they went to Playstation. Then they were really good for Final Fantasy games... Now... god, after FFX-2... I have lost almost all faith in them. But, I looked at some pictures from Grandia III... and it just looked too amazing to pass up. And it is.
So yeah, yesterday I took Musashiden 2 back to town to sell it... and I got 3300 yen for it, after paying 6100 yen for it. :( But on the bright side, the Book Off had Dragon Quest VIII there for 3200 yen used, and since I used my Book Off Points card, I got 450 yen off that right off the bat, so I only paid 2750 yen for it! So I basically traded in Musashiden 2 for Dragon Quest VIII, and 550 yen. So I proceded to go to the other game store to buy Grandia III. I have never seen a PS2 game with TWO DISCS for the full game. I have seen games with the game disc, and some preview disc... Or something like that... but never two PS2 DVD discs for one game. And after playing it for a bit, I understand why. It is a cinematic RPG... but even MORE cinematic than FFX, if you can believe it. The beginning intro is about 15 minutes long, and then you go through long story scenes all the time. But unlike crappy story scenes like in Wild Arms: The 4th Detinator, these are actually funny and show the character's personalities... while entertaining. I mean, the Wild Arms music was good... it was better than average... BUT THE MUSIC IN GRANDIA III IS PERHAPS THE BEST I HAVE HEARD SINCE ... FINAL FANTASY TACTICS. I can't believe it. That with the combination of how detailed everything is visually... would make any game good enough to buy. But what really makes it ... Beyond belief... is the battle system. Oh my God. I couldn't believe it... Your guys are always running around on the battle field... and if you time your characters right with the right character, you can do air combos... that just look AWESOME. Everything is so great... I can't wait to play more of it! Also loading time is almost non-existant, even for saving your game. It's unbelievable. I can't wait to try Dragon Quest VIII seriously, to give that one a go... because it'll probably be just as awesome, if not, more awesome than Grandia III. But I guess it's hard to compare games that are just SO different... (Grandia III has an all new fighting system, and the typical RPG stuff... but Dragon Quest VIII sticks back to it's NES roots... and even has the same battle sound effects as the old NES games... still has all the options from the NES games, etc... very old school.)
Wild Arms was okay... but it just pales in comparison to most Squaresoft games(Yes, I know Wild Arms is not a Square game, but there's really no way to hide the fact that it isn't by Square... :/). No, I refuse to call them SquareEnix. :( I wish they kept their name Squaresoft. :( ;_; There was nothing like seeing that logo at the beginning of a new game... Then that darn merge screwed it up forever. :( There was a time when Squaresoft games... were all just so amazing, if you saw that logo... you could tell right then and there that the game would be amazing. Except for the Saga Frontier games... no one liked those, but everyone knew to avoid those. But I'm talking even before that... Seiken Densetsu 2 and 3... Chrono Trigger... Final Fantasy 4-6... When they didn't release a new game every month, like they have been doing all year. Squaresoft was really good until they went to Playstation. Then they were really good for Final Fantasy games... Now... god, after FFX-2... I have lost almost all faith in them. But, I looked at some pictures from Grandia III... and it just looked too amazing to pass up. And it is.
So yeah, yesterday I took Musashiden 2 back to town to sell it... and I got 3300 yen for it, after paying 6100 yen for it. :( But on the bright side, the Book Off had Dragon Quest VIII there for 3200 yen used, and since I used my Book Off Points card, I got 450 yen off that right off the bat, so I only paid 2750 yen for it! So I basically traded in Musashiden 2 for Dragon Quest VIII, and 550 yen. So I proceded to go to the other game store to buy Grandia III. I have never seen a PS2 game with TWO DISCS for the full game. I have seen games with the game disc, and some preview disc... Or something like that... but never two PS2 DVD discs for one game. And after playing it for a bit, I understand why. It is a cinematic RPG... but even MORE cinematic than FFX, if you can believe it. The beginning intro is about 15 minutes long, and then you go through long story scenes all the time. But unlike crappy story scenes like in Wild Arms: The 4th Detinator, these are actually funny and show the character's personalities... while entertaining. I mean, the Wild Arms music was good... it was better than average... BUT THE MUSIC IN GRANDIA III IS PERHAPS THE BEST I HAVE HEARD SINCE ... FINAL FANTASY TACTICS. I can't believe it. That with the combination of how detailed everything is visually... would make any game good enough to buy. But what really makes it ... Beyond belief... is the battle system. Oh my God. I couldn't believe it... Your guys are always running around on the battle field... and if you time your characters right with the right character, you can do air combos... that just look AWESOME. Everything is so great... I can't wait to play more of it! Also loading time is almost non-existant, even for saving your game. It's unbelievable. I can't wait to try Dragon Quest VIII seriously, to give that one a go... because it'll probably be just as awesome, if not, more awesome than Grandia III. But I guess it's hard to compare games that are just SO different... (Grandia III has an all new fighting system, and the typical RPG stuff... but Dragon Quest VIII sticks back to it's NES roots... and even has the same battle sound effects as the old NES games... still has all the options from the NES games, etc... very old school.)