ROWAN'S PROFILE

I'm currently working on more sprites for my CBS.

I'm surprised no one mentioned Baten Kaitos 1 & 2 (origins) yet. These are semi-great RPG with a fun card battle system. The music is shockingly good as well (considering it's from Motoi Sakuraba.) I also recommend Gotcha Force as well, fun (albeit a bit easy) game.

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Dungeon4 in RM2k3 sounds nice as well.

Radiata Stories is a fairly enjoyable game. It's practically Suikoden combined with some battle mechanics from "Tales of"/"Star Ocean" series. On that note, I do wish the battles were a bit more complex and alot less repetitive. I was also very disappointed with the soundtrack. I know Noriyuki Iwadare could have done better. (Grandia series, and Phoenix Wright 3 for example). The length of the game is fairly short if the player doesn't want to recruit everyone. Everything else (Graphics and Story) was pretty much okay.

In all honesty what primarily set the game apart from other standard JRPG's was the "small" mechanics. For instance, the protagonist can practically kick almost anything (other then walls) and get some sort of reaction. You can even kick NPCs and they'll get mad accordingly to the point where you may have to face them in battle. Also, because of the Day/Night system, each NPC in the game follow their own schedule. For example, During the morning an NPC may be at the church, while in the afternoon they could be chatting with their neighbors and at night they could be found getting drunk at the bar. It's a nice little touch which greatly adds to the game.

7/10. Outside of completing the recruitment book and playing the game as the other side, there is little replay value. You can expect 1-2 replays before you never touch this game again.

P.S: I loved Star Ocean 3! (minus Fayt) I can't say the same about Star Ocean 4 though...