2 Years of Service
For those who grew up in the 90s, you might have been lucky to play the Star ocean games on PS1 and PS2, but what if I told ya, Tri-ace did a Fantasy Medievl JRPG as well.
Enter Radiata stories, the Best JRPG on the PS2.
The short is that you play a Jack Russel (Yes our protag shares the name of a dog breed.) who wants to become a knight of Radiata, the Huamn city of the game. You follow his path through this and through the events of the game.
The game follows the normal Star ocean style game play, battles take place in an arena sperate from the overoworld, which battles engage after you run into an enemy that can be seen on the overworld so there are no Random battles. Unlike star ocean though you only control jack, you can have 3 other party members who will attack and move on their own for the most part, you can give them orders after you get kicked out of the knights becuase some fatty lord didnt like his daughter getting hurt in battle and blames Jack and his captain Ganz.
BUT thats not all, you can also use formations, theres a handful of them and they all have differnt effects, but the best ones are attack and defense, attack basically makes the party gang up on one target in a cricle and beat their shit in. Defense makes the team face outward and defend while healing a bit.
Then theres jacks attacks, instead of a normal attack, you can slot jack with certain moves he learns over gameplay, across four weapons, 1h sword, 2h sword, spear, axe. TBH 1h sword for the most part will get you through the game, though the final main story dungeon has a really good 2h Sword. AXe and spears kinda get the short of of the stick.
The game has 175 NPCs you can have join your party, and some are easy to get others require certain story points and some you need others already joined. Natuarally the easy recuits are weaker, so they are good for the early game, the best characters you get are the guild leaders, being just plain OP. BUT theres MORE! NPCs who join you have skills you can learn from them by being in a formation with them enough, once you have that skill you can put it on jack for him to use anytime.
And of course the games humor is on point, the game opens with jack getting whipped in the trails, but still gets in anyway due to family name. Within a few seconds when jacks shown his quarters it has a great death wail scene. Later during the first mission Some goblins try to hijack the supply cart only to lose a word game where they challenged jack and his party to.
TL
R; TBH I dont think words alone can do the game justice, everyone should give it a chance if they can as its a great Star Ocean style JRPG with a medievil Fantasy setting.
Enter Radiata stories, the Best JRPG on the PS2.
The short is that you play a Jack Russel (Yes our protag shares the name of a dog breed.) who wants to become a knight of Radiata, the Huamn city of the game. You follow his path through this and through the events of the game.
The game follows the normal Star ocean style game play, battles take place in an arena sperate from the overoworld, which battles engage after you run into an enemy that can be seen on the overworld so there are no Random battles. Unlike star ocean though you only control jack, you can have 3 other party members who will attack and move on their own for the most part, you can give them orders after you get kicked out of the knights becuase some fatty lord didnt like his daughter getting hurt in battle and blames Jack and his captain Ganz.
BUT thats not all, you can also use formations, theres a handful of them and they all have differnt effects, but the best ones are attack and defense, attack basically makes the party gang up on one target in a cricle and beat their shit in. Defense makes the team face outward and defend while healing a bit.
Then theres jacks attacks, instead of a normal attack, you can slot jack with certain moves he learns over gameplay, across four weapons, 1h sword, 2h sword, spear, axe. TBH 1h sword for the most part will get you through the game, though the final main story dungeon has a really good 2h Sword. AXe and spears kinda get the short of of the stick.
The game has 175 NPCs you can have join your party, and some are easy to get others require certain story points and some you need others already joined. Natuarally the easy recuits are weaker, so they are good for the early game, the best characters you get are the guild leaders, being just plain OP. BUT theres MORE! NPCs who join you have skills you can learn from them by being in a formation with them enough, once you have that skill you can put it on jack for him to use anytime.
And of course the games humor is on point, the game opens with jack getting whipped in the trails, but still gets in anyway due to family name. Within a few seconds when jacks shown his quarters it has a great death wail scene. Later during the first mission Some goblins try to hijack the supply cart only to lose a word game where they challenged jack and his party to.
TL
R; TBH I dont think words alone can do the game justice, everyone should give it a chance if they can as its a great Star Ocean style JRPG with a medievil Fantasy setting.
