It's the quintessential example of a game that you really want to be good only to reluctantly admit it's shit. Cool art style, character designs, space adventure and it's all just... bland. You will fall the fuck asleep trying to enjoy it.

>>732251772
It's decent? It's like a poor man's Star Ocean if SO actually used its setting as a space opera instead of having the games tame place 90% in a single planet.
Rogue Galaxy makes an attempt at having you traverse the galaxy, but that just means you get a bunch of kinda shitty areas like "Desert city" and "forest path" and each one is a "planet".
Nice characters and setting though.
It's a game that's cooler in concept than in execution. You can see they had a vision but lacked the budget to pull it off.

>>732251772
it's a fun ride if you want a Based cozy old fashioned rpg to play in your spare time. Same thing with the shadow hearts franchise.

>>732251772
it's cozy

>>732251772
It captures a really fun space adventure feel looks gorgeous and overall is really cool, but it's a level 5 game so it plays like shit and has low depth.

Does this game have very low levels, like being in level 10 after 150 hours or something?

>>732251772
I never finished this.

I really liked it. It does have flaws though.

>>732251772
I found it to be quite shitty.

Yes

>>732251772
Dropped it after Jaster was revealed to be some sort kind of god of war

>>732251772
Level-5 have never made a bad game.

>>732258017
ahem, white knight chronicles

Meh
Most of the planet are interesting also spoiler
The last boss suck so much, force you to use every characters, and since you can only play 3 at once, some are just underpowered, not a difficult fight, each phase of the boss have only 1-2 different attack that you see coming for km away, just this fucker got so many hp

>>732259126
>are interesting
Aren't*
It's just a biome=a planet
Planet forest
Planet sand
Planet city
Planet city but poor and dangerous

>>732251772
It's alright.

It's a fun game. Not the best, but far from the worst JRPG out there. Good story, interesting characters, and cool set pieces. You have to remember it's a PS2 game though, and having animations and voice acting was a HUGE deal back then. I think it has more voice lines than DQ8, or comes close if not. Feels about on par with FFXII in that regard, in terms of the amount of voice lines and not necessarily quality (although I like the English VAs). So today that doesn't seem as cool and the game feels way more mediocre just based on gameplay and story.

>>732252425
No, you get to level 50ish around the mid/late game where you can use the best weapons. Higher by the end.

>>732257787
This is where I think the game hits a lull. The villains fuck off and leave you to explore a weird temple that has a boring design compared to other areas, and you likely already maxed out Jaster's starter weapon and the combat gets pretty repetetive but not "easy" either because some enemies just do so much damage that you can get wiped if you zone out in a battle and lose an hour+ of progress from warp/save point to warp/save point.

It is a diamond in the rough, and very few will ever know that. I've put 100+ hours into it and sometimes go back and do a replay of it. It's seriously a great comfy game to play in the fall/winter months.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKh02k5NFUQ

>>732251772
No, play Dark Chronicle instead.

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>>732251772
I like the fact you can get an overpowered darth vader bug in the bug chess minigame.

>>732258316
Never played it, but how bad could it be.

>>732251918
Ah yes, the Final Fantasy IX problem

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>>732251772
Good parts:
>combat can be pretty fun, lots of different characters to try with their own unique weapons and moves
>soundtrack ranges from ok to good, nothing amazing
>great graphics, environment, and monster/character designs especially with emulator upscaling
>cool extra outfits and other stuff to collect
>lots of sidequests like the bounty system
>fun little touches like voice acting while roaming around depending on the environment
>there's a really in-depth bug catching minigame where you make them fight on a grid if that's your thing

Bad:
>plot is such a fucking snoozer full of anime cliches (and not the good ones); it builds up characters and subplots then wastes them on shit payoffs and it's also really rushed on the last planet
>you need to manually switch to a special gun on ONE character to break "barrier" enemies; this is the only thing the gun is used for
>some of the encounters can be really annoying, and you will see them a lot in the wide open spaces the game expects you to roam around in

I liked it overall but I wouldn't call it the greatest game ever made or even a "great" game. It's just "good". Give it a shot and drop it if it doesn't click after an hour or two

>>732251772
This and FF12 are the best looking games on PS2.

>>732251772
Replayed it recently.
Nope.
Both Dark Clouds are still excellent btw, play those

>>732260478
>>plot is such a fucking snoozer full of anime cliches (and not the good ones);
i don't remember anything but only the part where they are in some sort of oasis or lake.
they are spying on 2 sisters i think? somebody asks main char if he likes the little loli or older sister. lol
different times man. where has it all gone so wrong.

>>732260456

Except that actually is a really good game and the best FF, bucko

it gets pretty boring once you get your aoe attack skills strong enough to one shot whole encounters
sure there's a bunch of gimmick enemies that are immune to them but you still feel like you're skipping most fights that show up

>>732259503
you just spam special skills so you don't get hit, the combat is piss easy

>>732260057
I am not autistic enough to get any real progress into Insectron

>>732251772
I didn't like it as much as Dark Cloud and Dark Cloud 2.

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I 99%'d this game when I was 12 and gave up when the last thing I had to do was make some shit in the fucking factory
who the fuck thought this was a good idea

I only played this game because one girl has an attack that looks like she farts into a sock and throws it at the enemies.

>>732263812
Using the factory completely befuddled me as a kid but it's actually kinda fun, routing power can be a bit of a pain though

>>732264440
weirdly complicated for a game where the regular combat is just
>spam melee combo
>block until meter full
>repeat

>>732251772
It's pretty mediocre. Lots of cool ideas under the hood and the leveling system was interesting, but it felt like the devs didn't have a clear image of what the game was supposed to be, the story was weirdly shallow for the epic scale it had, including the backstory of like half of the cast.

If you are a JRPG hardcore fan, this might be interesting, but it's just meh overall. The combat, specifically, is incredibly shallow and repetitive save for some gimmick specific boss fights

>>732251772
Like many said, it LOOKED good back in the day , that girl is pure absolute sexo and gameplay is just "okay" but kinda forgettable.
With that said, this Factory theme is GODSENT and stuck in my head ever since i heard it :

https://youtu.be/hiAfkQiPe24

I just remember the enemies are horrendously overturned. Like Elden ring dlc levels of over tuned. Of course could have been just bad but I remember being filtered several times as a kid.

>>732251772
No, its incredibly boring and it doesnt respect your time.
Great visuals tho

it's the best level 5 game they've ever made

the parts where the fat little guy sees his wife and child looking for him and they just show up randomly in the most hostile isolated environments going 'hmm, well he's not here either' are so fucking hilariously stupid and played so seriously that they actually caused growth in my little kid brain and helped me to begin to criticise things

>>732260478
The plot baffles me so much: you're thrusted in this galactic war but you're supposed to see things from the sidelines, meaning some characters like the cat general or whatever his rank is disappears 5 minutes after he's introduced. Sure, you end up stopping a war profiteer meaning the war might de-escalate significantly, but it doesn't fucking matter, and the entire ending portion is rushed beyond belief.

>>732251772
Combat consists of opening a menu and selecting your strongest move that hits all enemies. Trying to fight battles the normal way is a chore cause the AI sucks and enemies can kill you in 2-3 hits forcing you to open a menu and chug one of 200 different potions you carry. I was reminded of this game a lot when playing Breath of the Wild for this reason.

>>732251772
Disappointment after Dark Cloud 1 & 2.