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Disapointing.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I was so excited when I found this game in the used game bin at the Game Store the other day. I was a HUGE fan of the first one and was excited to see a sequel. Well after playing for one day I am sorry that I ever found it at all. The animation is choppy (even for its time. They should have never moved to 3D from 2D. I have no idea why this is even a sequel - there is no mention of the first one. The only simialrity is hacking the bushes for money. There are WAY to many cut scenes and while the voice acting is good, the scenes themselves are not well drawn. And they take place every few minutes. Fight a monster - get a cut. Walk into a room, get a cut.
The first boss is WAY to hard for a first battle, there are far to few saved spots. I am only a few hours into the game, so it could get better, but based on the other reviews here I am not optimistic.

Robots, Pirates and Underwear Monkeys, Oh My!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: August 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

That's only in the first hour. Unfortunately, this childish cast of monsters follows you throughout your journey as Flint "The Pirate Hunter" in your quest to take down the ultimate evil in the form of a trollish frog-wizard. If you've ever wondered why there is no Alundra 3, all you need to do is try to make a single pass through this one.

Gameplay:
Alundra 2 completely breaks away from its predecessor by throwing away the old 2d engine and replaces it with a clunky 3d one. The control is directionally based, much like the original Parasite Eve, adding the ability to rotate your camera in 8 directions. Here, the first problem arises while playing. Should you have the need to rotate the camera while moving, you'll find yourself unable to change directions unless you stop moving completely. Movement is very clumsy in this game which compounds with Flint's sheer sluggish-ness. Now add the game's horrid clipping, and dodging enemies can sometimes be an impossibility. Which is a shame, since no matter how many hit points you have, odds are 6 hits (attacks or collisions) with an enemy will find you dead.

Like the original, Alundra 2 is full of puzzles that require manipulation of the environment, and this clumsiness usually means that you'll be getting stuck running by diagonal walls or missing crucial jumps because you can't see where you're supposed to be going. The puzzles are also extremely easy until you get to around the 60% point of the game, at which point they actually take some thought. Which is good, because by that point the monsters and bosses become childishly easy, and without the more challenging puzzles, you'll be hard pressed to find reason to keep playing.

Graphics:
The move to a 3d engine was a bad one. The graphics in this game are just completely bland and uninspired. It's like taking all the bad parts of Granstream Saga and Threads of Fate and mixing them together. The polygonal characters are poorly rendered with bodies consisting of no more than ten polygons and the texture mapping is poorly done. There are no FMV's so-to-speak, with all the cut-scenes done with the game engine and the few movies being the game-engine on some other background. Definitely nothing to please your eyes while you slug through this one.

Sound:
The voice-acting in this game is surprisingly well done, albeit corny, and the list of actors is impressive with more than one recognizable voice in the mix. Unfortunately, the voices are the only upside since the music is uninspired at best. Be prepared for a lot of digitized oboes since the composer seems to love them more than is natural. Sound effects are par, they aren't annoying, nor do they rise out of this flavorless morass.

Overall:
If you're looking for a sequel to Alundra, this is not the game to you. Having gone through the entire game, there is not a single reference to Alundra or even to the Alundra world of Inoa. In fact the only thing that can be said to link the two games are the puzzles, but even then, these are much easier than the original. Even the original had a story that was dark and interesting, with Alundra being able to walk in people's nightmares and save their souls, but this one is pitiful and hackneyed. Basically, you are a pirate-hunter that teams up with a princess to save the kingdom from a court magician who goes awry. That's it, there's no side-story, back-story, or better-story ever revealed during gameplay.

Basically put, I can take games with bad graphics, poor sound, shoddy gameplay or no story; I just can't take a game with all of those traits combined. In fact, the game will clock you in around 20 hours with the last 5 hours being no too bad. The problem is that the first 15 hours were absolutely horrid. So horrid, in fact, that had my memory card corrupted and I had to replay them to get to the enjoyable part of the game, I would have just thrown the CD in the microwave and watched the lightshow.

Da perfect game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: January 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the best games I've ever played.I got the game a couple weeks back, and I haven't stopped playing yet.The game is perfect for people that like role-playins games with swordsplay involved.Alunda 2 all the way.PEACE OUT:]

Why is this rated teen

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: November 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

ok first off fighting monkeys and robots sucks.... this doesnt even come close to any zelda game by far.ok with that off my chest ill give you the good and the bad first the good, graphics:8 battle sytem:9 controls awkward at first because of the camera thing but its cool:7.5 now the bad plot:3 enemies,they're robots,monkies and stupid little gremlin things that should be in a dr. suess book c'mon :2 so i played about a half hour than turned it off in disgust maybe good for little kids with some parents help.so... stay away from this game

too many annoying puzzles

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: April 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

alundra 2 is a weak game because of the lousy camera angle. i hate it when i cannot see were em i going because of an object blocking my view. and i also hate those annoying puzzles that when u mess up u have too start all over again. and those minigames, my god u have too have superhuman speed and patience just too accomplish them. and they all cost a bundle, apparently like in the real world money those not come easy in alundra 2. sidequesting also is barely original. even that shining sword whos still weak at the enemy. barely impressive. storyline is a bit edgy, meet the princess meet the bad guy save the princess from the bad guy, same old same old. one thing i like though, sometimes the characters make u giggle. but thats it, and i also like "the shooter" minigame.

greatest rpg ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: November 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

this game it so cool the bosses are very easy like in alundra 1 this game is just the best rpg i have ever played. thought it is short the shortness is made u by the gameplay in the game.my fav part is when at the begining of the game a hugh key falls on a whale and turns him into mako the robotic whale.

Miss the SNES and Genesis days?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

A solid but unspectacular action RPG. Gameplay is very similar to 16-bit games much like Beyond Oasis, Zelda 3, and Light Crusader with inventory management reminiscent of Y's 3. Basically just an old school hack and slash adventure with a block puzzle thrown in from time to time. Short of the occasional FMV and the 3D graphics this game could have easily been done years ago on older systems. Graphically it looks quite nice, but the camera angle is a little difficult at times. Overall a decent game that doesn't really live up to modern standards. Fans of titles like Soul Reaver and the PSX Final Fantasy games would be better off to look elsewhere.

This Games Da Bomb!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 24, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the best RPG games I've played since Zelda 64! My N64 broke from over-playeg so I got PSX. It was great to find a game like Zelda for the Playstation but the strategy guide isn't the greatest. I recomend using an online walkthru or the Expert Gamer walkthru. Over-all this game rocks but the graphics could be better.....

Alundra 2

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 10
Date: December 14, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I have played some very bad games in my ten years of gaming but this game tops them all. When I first bought it I hoped that it would keep up the excellent standards that Alundra set. I was wrong. This game is totally rubish as far as I am concerned. While the graphics may look good they become very annoying. The music is o.k but the worst features of this game have to be the lack of a decent storyline and the camera angles. Overall, u think that any real RPGest should go out and buy a decent game such as FFVII.

THIS GAME ROCKS

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: October 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

For all you RPG lovers out there this game rocks. If you don't have it get it this is a must-have. There are only a few downsides one of wich is the views, other wise this game is perfect. Sure the text is a little cheesy but it's a great game. I encourage you all to go out and buy this great RPG.

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