READ MORE: The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV Review (PS4) This helps make the game stand out and is a welcomed change of pace as it affects how you strategize battles and enemy encounters. One aspect of the game that differs greatly from most other RPGs is that players only control one character throughout the entire game and there isn’t a party system like we see in the majority of RPGs. Later in the game, you also unlock a powerup that lets you warp to save points you already visited, reminisce of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. The map also tells you which rooms you can unlock with a new key, which saves the player time as they don’t need to aimlessly explore trying to find which key goes where. This helps with encouraging exploration, which thankfully you have a map to help you with. Vagrant Story is different from most JRPG’s in that the entire game is set on a maze-like grid system. If you’re already a fan of other JRPG games, such as Final Fantasy, then this story could certainly be one that you should check out and experience for yourself. While it makes for a great setting for the game’s story, it isn’t simply a backdrop for the story to take place, instead, it plays an active role as it is prone to earthquakes which helps unlock new areas for the player to explore. Lea Mondre has an incredibly rich lore and history, with the old town being built over 2,000 years ago. Vagrant Story centres around Ashley Riot, an elite soldier known as a Riskbreaker, as he travels to Lea Monde to investigate a possible connection between Sydney, the leader of the religious cult Mullenkamp, and Duke Bardorba, a senior Valendia Parliament member.Įarly on in the game, Ashley is blamed for the assassination of the Duke, which causes Lea Mondre to become engulfed in a civil war. If you like complex and detailed stories, then this certainly could tick all of the right boxes for you. This perhaps isn’t the game for you if you’re more of a fan of simple stories where more of the focus is on the gameplay.
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Like many RPGs, Vagrant Story is full of lore with an incredibly detailed and complex story. Released in the west a few months before the release of Final Fantasy 9, Vagrant Story is often overlooked by players, also partly due to it releasing towards the end of the PlayStation’s lifecycle.īut, let’s not overlook it any longer and dive into this JRPG that likely flew under your radar back in the day. But, Square, now Square-Enix, had many other great games in the PS1 library, including the likes of Parasite Eve, Bushido Blade, Chrono Cross, and Vagrant Story.
When gamers think of Square games on the PlayStation 1, it is understandable that Final Fantasy 7-9 is quite often the names that come to mind, after all, they are some of the great RPG games of all time.
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