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Okay for the players who don't like bright and cheery colors

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Vagrant Story is much more compicated then a game should be. The battle system is really complex and hard to figure out. But the storyline is awesome and the characters are wonderfully detailed. All in all it is a pretty good game, i guess.

Maybe the greatest video game of all?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: July 31, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Amazing graphics, with easy to learn game play, and a story line seeming fit for a movie spectacular. Follow in the steps of a lonely warrior unsure of his past, searching everywhere for the answers while on the trail of an evil black magic wielding villian. Face off against dragons, golems, zombies, ghost's, and some of the most amazing monsters, and bad guys you have ever seen. A True classic, Not matched by any game of any genre. Finally a game that gets better and better, the more you play. one of those games you will never want to finish, and when you do youll want to do it again.

Untouchable.

A Mixed Bag

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 13, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is a mixed bag, full of pros and cons. For example: Con: It's an extremely dark game that mainly consists of running around in a dungeon where the view makes it difficult to see what your character is doing. Pro: The music, the dark, and espionage filled storyline create a wonderful atmosphere of mystery and fear.. the battle system is excellent, but the puzzles are the boring cube-movin', lever pullin' type. It's not extremely long, so you're probably better off just renting it ... :)

Better than those stupid Final Fantasy's

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: February 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Vagrant Story is a great game. The graphics are probably some of the best graphics on the psx today. The battleling system is very good, although it takes some time to learn how to use magic and chaining abilities, if your more of the sports game fan like i am. The dungeon that you spend the whole game in is not that bad. The thing is though, that all the rooms look basically the same, and it is sometimes hard to remember where you have and have not been. The game is challenging, and you will find yourself in some lengthy battles with certain bosses. I would recommend not using a gameshark at about the 8-12% complete point, because when you get to a certain room, numbers will just start appearing on the screen taking away from your 999 mp at rapid speed. all in all Vagrant Story isn't your normal RPG, and can even be liked by sports game fans like me, who think all other RPG's stink!

Better than the FF series!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is AWESOME! I am a serious RPG gamer, and I really think this game is way better than the Final Fantasies.(not to say the FF's aren't all masterpieces, mind you!) VS is the best game Square has ever made in my opinion.

First off,no more random battles! All the enemies are visible on screen. Playing games like LoD and Chrono Cross I got so annoyed at seeing the screen fade into a battle.In VS,you see the enemy and whack the enemy.After beating a certain boss,you get the power to string attacks together using battle abilities. The battle abilities take time to master, but add so much to the over-all effectiveness of Ashley's strikes that they are definetly worth the effort. The same goes for the defense abilities. They allow you to limit the damage taken by foes' attacks.

As you've probably already heard the graphics of this game are wonderful. The plot scenes blend in perfectly and don't make the game look like Roger Rabbit as did the CG sequences of FF8.

Like everything, VS does have it's disadvantages. The dark rooms of Lea' Monde do get a bit tiresome. Also, the block puzzles are quite annoying. These things can be overlooked though. The superb plot and gameplay more than make up for bothersome little quirks like the two mentioned above.

All in all VS is a legend in its on time,sure to transport the gamer playing it to the haunted halls of Lea' Monde and bring them back with a feeling of awe.

Too much makes this game too bad...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: May 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Quite frankly this game doesn't live up to all the hype. I still can't believe how people say the graphics are so good since they are all completely dull dark and dreary, not to mention blockier than most SNES games I've played. The sound is nearly non existant. hardly any music in the game at all, just a plethora of drips squeaks squeals and puking noises. Gameplay isn't too bad, though it isn't exactly the most fluid I've ever played, and the objects in a room tend to get in your line of sight all too frequently, no matter how you swing the camera view. The battle system is a Parasite Eve clone thats been tuned up to the point of being almost too complicated to use. it takes practice for certain. The monsters are outrageously easy if you simply use hit and run tactics. the bosses on the other hand tend to be amazingly hard if you don't know what you are doing. Plot is relatively non existant in this game. the opening movie pretty much gives you the basic run of the game. the game tends to lead you around by the nose for the first hour or so and then you have a very limited number of option available for the duration of the game. Its just another dungeon crawl. I love Dungeons and Dragons but even that gets boring if you do nothing but one dungeon exploration after another and thats really all this game is. the true value of the game comes from being able to find a multitude of weapons and armor and then being able to make use of various workshops to combine those items into more powerful armaments. unfortunately this is tedious and time consuming, taking up more than 3/4 of the game. Overall they just took a rather bland game and tried to cram in all kinds of technical stuff, taking nearly every RPG option you could think of and trying to put it all in one game. If i wanted to spend all my time reworking weapons i'd have been a blacksmith in life.

I've rented this twice now and both times its been (bad)

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: December 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

okay the graphics are stunning and about as good as the humble ps1 is going to get but I've got quite a few criticisms of this game so here goes:

1) Its hard to know what you're supposed to be doing half of the time so a lot of the gameplay is spent running around doing nothing.

2) The combat is ok, but it can be VERY annoying a lot of the time due to the 'affinities' of weapons and the 'risk' system.

3) Weapons and affinities are a good idea, but the way they are implemented is dreadful. I found it infuriating.

4) The weapon creation system is appaling and it is almost impossible to find a combination that does anything. And when it does there is no way of checking so it ends up just as a (bad) time wasting issue.

5) The story is okay but its hard to get a feel for the characters and get involved with the story as in mgs and ff games.

Overall, I wouldn't buy this game(...).

Difficult

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: March 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I never got to far playing this game. Up to the first save and after that I'm stuck and can't proceed in the game. So I really didn't like this game.

A masterpiece

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 02, 2000
Author: Amazon User

With Vagrant story you can expect to have one of the most dedicated and complete games of these last years, you wont be dissapointed even tough the game is not a traditional RPG (interaction with people, town travelling etc. ) but one with a great mix of strategy and action. I'm kepping my fingers crossed so the good folks at Square brings Vagrant's weapons and attack systems to their up coming Final Fantasy titles. Beatiful music, characters and a exotic blend of cultures make this a must see and a masterpiece.

Square.... I LOVE U

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 25, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Seriously! I do! REALLY! Anyway, enough about Square. Now for Vagrant Story! This game has phenomonal graphics for a Playstation game. The enviorments are not only well made but beautiful! AND, with the look around feature u can look at certain objects and admire their bueaty. The Gameplay is great, having a huge choice of weapons and some you made your own too. The Battle system is like Final Fantasy tactics combined with Threads of Fate. It's all in real-time, but has a limit where your range, spells, and items can go. ARRRGGGHH! It's so hard to explain, yet so simple. BUY the game!

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