Thu Aug 09, 2007 1:09 pm
Brave Story: New Traveler REVIEW
Game Title: Brave Story: New Traveler
Genre: Turned based RPG
Strengths: Great Graphics, Fun equipment crafting feature, Good story
Weaknesses: Frequent random battles, Limited weapon and armor upgrades, No changeable classed
Description: Based on the great graphic novel by Mitsiua Miyabe, Brave Story: plunges players into the fantastical world of Vision. The game starts off with your best friend getting sick and almost dieing, the game gives you a chance to take a perilous journey into Vision to heal your her. Many Key characters and races from the book and movie join you like: Mitsuru, Rei, Wataru, and key races like, Waterkin, Kitkin, Ahnkin and dragon. This 20 hour or so long RPG feels quite epic with full orchestral scores and nice looking cutscenes. An awesome gameplay feature are unity. Unity is gained when characters are on the playing field a lot together Unity attacks are special attacks that require two or more characters and to incredible damage. Unity is also used in the form of defense, unity defend will make the character with the highest defense stat defend the character that has the lowest health. Unity is a great way to get you to think strategically and rotate characters often.
Though with as much going for it, there are things that need improvement. Random battles are frequent and annoying, you often lose track of where your are supposed to be going because of the number of them. No map is given to the player, so it's very hard to know where you are going, and the NPC's often give vague directions to your destination, so getting lost is frequent.
Even with these few issues, this game is great and will provide hours of enjoyment to RPG fans and owners of the PSP alike.
Retail Price: $40
Number of Players: 1, 2 via goalfinch wire minigame
Graphics: 10 /10
Sound: 7/10
Gameplay: 7 /10
Overall: 8 /10
Genre: Turned based RPG
Strengths: Great Graphics, Fun equipment crafting feature, Good story
Weaknesses: Frequent random battles, Limited weapon and armor upgrades, No changeable classed
Description: Based on the great graphic novel by Mitsiua Miyabe, Brave Story: plunges players into the fantastical world of Vision. The game starts off with your best friend getting sick and almost dieing, the game gives you a chance to take a perilous journey into Vision to heal your her. Many Key characters and races from the book and movie join you like: Mitsuru, Rei, Wataru, and key races like, Waterkin, Kitkin, Ahnkin and dragon. This 20 hour or so long RPG feels quite epic with full orchestral scores and nice looking cutscenes. An awesome gameplay feature are unity. Unity is gained when characters are on the playing field a lot together Unity attacks are special attacks that require two or more characters and to incredible damage. Unity is also used in the form of defense, unity defend will make the character with the highest defense stat defend the character that has the lowest health. Unity is a great way to get you to think strategically and rotate characters often.
Though with as much going for it, there are things that need improvement. Random battles are frequent and annoying, you often lose track of where your are supposed to be going because of the number of them. No map is given to the player, so it's very hard to know where you are going, and the NPC's often give vague directions to your destination, so getting lost is frequent.
Even with these few issues, this game is great and will provide hours of enjoyment to RPG fans and owners of the PSP alike.
Retail Price: $40
Number of Players: 1, 2 via goalfinch wire minigame
Graphics: 10 /10
Sound: 7/10
Gameplay: 7 /10
Overall: 8 /10
