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Radiant Historia

 

 

SCORE: 62

 

Radiant Historia 

 

It was a very long road to getting a review of Radiant Historia in Family Friendly Gaming. We had decent levels of coverage of Radiant Historia before it was released. We were looking forward to reviewing it. But a copy never arrived - which is extremely rare for us. Having millions of readers normally puts you on the front line. But no worries because I put it on our video game purchase list. When advertising dollars reached a good level I looked for Radiant Historia. But it had been discontinued.

Things changed this year as Atlus decided to do a second run of the game. Which makes sense when a game sells out. Went to Amazon to get it and they were out again. I took the money around to local gaming stores until I finally found a cartridge only. By the way, how do you lose the game case people?

I thought I knew what to expect from Radiant Historia. This is the most convoluted, slow and lengthy story I have ever played. We time travel between multiple time lines. Learn a skill in one to be used in the other one. If you play Radiant Historia start to finish you will be fine. Put the game down for awhile and you will have trouble remembering what needs to be done and where you met certain people. In Radiant Historia its not what town, but also what timeline and at what event you meet certain people.

Hardcore gamers will eat up the depth in Radiant Historia. The grainy graphics were a bit of a turn-off for me. There is violence and some enticement to lust issues in this Nintendo DS game. The fight grid is interesting with three rows to it. Enemies can be pushed into the same squares and then both can be attacked at the same time. One character knocks them over or back and the other characters can attack both in that turn.

When will the role playing genre mature past bad language? I am an adult and I don’t want it. The music in Radiant Historia is memorable and does a lot to help this game in terms of scoring. I found myself enjoying it while I was playing this hand held video game.

Expect to spend 40-60 hours on the story in Radiant Historia. This game is long, and very slow. I got a headache on more than one occurrence trying to figure out what timeline I was in and what needed to be done. Radiant Historia will turn off many gamers who are not used to an intense role playing game.

We play some not so nice CIA kind of characters in a medieval kind of world. Secrets, murder, other seedy behaviors are performed in the line of duty.
- Paul

 

Graphics: 60%
Sound: 61%
Replay/Extras: 71%
Gameplay: 62%
Family Friendly Factor: 54%

System: Nintendo DS
Publisher: Atlus

Rating:   ‘E10+’ for Everyone 10+
{Fantasy Violence, Language, Use of Alcohol}

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