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August 25, 2008 at 2:25 pm #4885Lord Yuan ShuKeymaster
This game is worth a Dreamcast purchase itself.
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Huo Hu's Adventure started Destiny of an Emperor hackingAugust 28, 2008 at 12:56 pm #35936NiahakModeratorIs it?
I actually got a Dreamcast a couple weeks ago to play through Shenmue (I was still doing forklift stuff 10 minutes before I left for the airport, so I obviously still haven’t beat it). The DC seems a little flaky sometimes, but I’m still wondering if it’s the copy of Shenmue I got.
I have a copy of G2 for PS2, but I’ve heard it’s an inferior port. How bad is it? Is it worth hunting down a DC version at whatever cost?
Oh yeah, also, I’m in Kyoto now :) unsecured internet is a wonderful thing.
August 28, 2008 at 5:05 pm #35937Lord Yuan ShuKeymasterNiahak said:
Is it?
I actually got a Dreamcast a couple weeks ago to play through Shenmue (I was still doing forklift stuff 10 minutes before I left for the airport, so I obviously still haven’t beat it). The DC seems a little flaky sometimes, but I’m still wondering if it’s the copy of Shenmue I got.
I have a copy of G2 for PS2, but I’ve heard it’s an inferior port. How bad is it? Is it worth hunting down a DC version at whatever cost?
Oh yeah, also, I’m in Kyoto now :) unsecured internet is a wonderful thing.
hehe nice, always good to find the intranets.
Yea I’ve heard something like that about Grandia II PS2, that it is bugged…not sure the entirety of the matter. So if you have it on PS2 you can probably play it on there but if you want to pay for the full experience then by all means get it for DC.
Just checked actually and I can’t believe it’s like 10 fuckin bucks for a nice copy of the game with the case on Amazon. I’d just grab it there.
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Huo Hu's Adventure started Destiny of an Emperor hackingAugust 31, 2008 at 5:23 pm #35938thechieftainParticipantIt was pretty good on PS2, i never plaed the dreamcast though so i cant compare.
September 15, 2008 at 5:16 am #35939NiahakModeratorTurned out I’d left the game back home in WA (or else lost it somewhere).
I picked up a copy at a local gamestop (along with a copy of Way of the Samurai so messed up it just makes funny noises when I put it in the PS2).
So far I’ve played about 9 hours. This game is addictive! The first Grandia was annoying because the main character’s such an annoying brat. Ryudo by comparison is much more tolerable, and the situations don’t feel quite as contrived (don’t get me wrong, they still feel contrived ;))
But this game just runs so fast it’s hard to stop. It’s easy to pick up, entertaining, involves no deep thought but is still strategic. The negatives I’d heard were mostly that it’s cliched. Which it is. But just like the Lunars, the cliches are well done, which is so much better than Vaan’s "I wanna be a sky pirate" routine.
Much better than the first, I’d say. As long as it doesn’t completely jump the shark, I’ll be pretty happy with it overall. If it were DC-only, it might be a reason to get a DC. The PS2 port runs a bit slow at times, but that’s the only bug I’ve seen that isn’t trivial.
November 7, 2008 at 2:56 am #35940NiahakModeratorNever did resurrect this thread when I beat it ;)
Turned out G2 does jump the shark. Right after the events with the Claws of Valmar, suddenly everything seems to go into slow motion. All the battles are ridiculously easy, so you’re just spamming the best move and killing all enemies at once.
The final 3 dungeons just have a bunch of really tedious puzzles.
I just wish it’d gone straight from the Eye of Valmar directly to the Claw (no damn side-event with weirdo crab spider island), then straight to the final dungeon (since as it turned out, everything up till that point was, of course, useless).
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