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Dec 08 2005
Legend of Heroes Review
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| Summary: 7 out of 10, not the best but good
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Hands down, if you are an RPG fan and need something to satisfy your thirst, get Legend of Heroes. This is the story of a young man named Avin and his friend Mile who are searching for Avin's sister, whom he was seperated with at childhood. There are some good things and some bad things about this game.
The main problem with this game is the translation. There are tons of mistakes in this game where you feel like you are reading caveman dialogue. It's never so bad that you can't figure out what's going on but it's bad enough to make you laugh at how supid it sounds when something serious or sad is happening in the game. Another bad thing about this game is that it has tons of errands. You may be given an objective to complete and by the time you have finished it you will have found that you've also completed like 7 other "mini objectives" along the way. For example, let's say someone asks you to go to the next town and get a key item. You go to the town and before you can have the item, you need to get something from somewhere else, you go there and need something from somewhere else to get that, and so on.
One last thing I noticed is that I seemed to go through the whole game without any problems but at the final boss I was slaughtered. I was only level 34 so I leveled up to 48 and still was beaten. It may be possible that in the final battle winning is purely luck, kinda like fighting Ozma in FFIX.
The best thing about this game is that you really get the feel of an old school RPG when you are playing it. Despite the translation errors, the storyline is pretty good. It's good enough to make me want to play more games in this series, which I will when the time comes. The graphics may not be outstanding compared to other PSP games but they do the job wonderfully. It looks so crisp and beautiful when you control Avin running through the forest, and through puddles of water. This game is 3D with 2D characters, somewhat like the first Grandia. I loved the graphics.
The sound is decent, it was pleasent and seemed to fit with the game. Although, it was obvisouly not a Nobuo Uemetsu written soundtrack, it was still good enough to keep the volume up. If you enjoy voice acting you will be missing out in this game, for there is not a single droplet of voice. I didn't bother me too much because I have been playing RPG's since the first Final Fantasy, although I did hear a few complain about it.
Load times are quick, I never found myself annoyed by load times once throughout the whole game. As for the battle system, in this game the enemies are on the map and when you touch them it loads into a battle screen. It plays like a standard turn based RPG battle, but the characters move around to different locations to attack. This sort of annoyed me, but beggars can't be choosers.
I give Legend of Heroes a 7 out of 10, it's a great first RPG for the PSP. If you don't already own it, I reccomend you do!
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Yeah, it sounds pretty decent.
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you are dead on.
I might add:
This game is very linear and does not promote freedom: meaning if you miss something in a town you cannot go back. you can ONLY go forward.
But I do really like this game anyway.
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Great review! Now I know that i'm NOT buying this game and will get PoPolocrois instead , THANKS! 
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Good review but i cant choose between waiting for PoPolocrois or just rolling with this one...
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Sojourner said: "Good review but i cant choose between waiting for PoPolocrois or just rolling with this one..."
Get both, but if you can only afford 1 of them, go with popolocrois. Check out my review when it posts, probably tommorrow.
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1. Final boss is not hard, you just need to cast Anti-Magic on all of your character, then the rest is piece of cake.
2. Ozma is not hard, it is a joke compared to Omega from FFVIII, who is a joke compared to Emerald from FFVII, who is a joke to me.
3. You forgot to mention there are a lot of dialogs in the game (60% apprx. of the total game)
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dts said: "1. Final boss is not hard, you just need to cast Anti-Magic on all of your character, then the rest is piece of cake.
2. Ozma is not hard, it is a joke compared to Omega from FFVIII, who is a joke compared to Emerald from FFVII, who is a joke to me.
3. You forgot to mention there are a lot of dialogs in the game (60% apprx. of the total game)"
1. sometimes the final boss attacks twice with physical attacks killing you before you can do anything.
2. Ozma uses merton which is a 50 50 chance of killing your whole party in one blow.
3.Why would I need to mention that, that's standard for an RPG.
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Note to self : MUST import this game!
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