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- Subject: RPG review cont.
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- Date: 31 Dec 1992 12:10 EST
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- Scale:
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- A - great, the best
- B - good but not great
- C - average/typical
- D - bearly tolerable
- F - Hated it
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- Things rated:
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- Graphics - colors, size, glicker, animation, clarity, variety of monsters,
- background
- Sound - variety, enjoyability
- Manuel - clarity, descriptiveness, helpfulness, errors
- theme/story - story flow, explanation scenes, intro of new characters,
- ability to chose more than one route of progress.
- Lenght of game - very long, long, medium, short, too short
- level of difficulty - hard, medium, easy: maze difficulty, die alot
- Control of battle - control over the actions taking place during battle
- Outstanding/Unique features - explained
- View - overhead, 3-d, combination
-
- Final Fantasy
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- Graphics - C
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- Clarity is good and variety of monsters is good and there's no flicker BUT.
- There is no monster animation and character animation is limited. Can only
- see lead character in walk about mode (I like seeing all my characters as
- much a possible) Size is small could have been bigger.
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- Sound - C-
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- a bit repeative but tolerable
-
- Manuel - B+
-
- 2 foldout sheets boths sides full and in color were warrented.
- Includes a map of the world, complete list of monsters their stenghts
- and weakness, some of their special attacks, Ave. hit points dished out
- and needed to defeat. Complete armor and weapons list and who can equip
- but no prices and some of this stuff is very expensive. You do however find
- alot of weapons and some armour. A little hard to tell what weapons are
- more powerful without arming and using them.
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- Some Dugeon/Maze maps.
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- Manuel itself has complete list of all magic spells available and who can
- cast what when. What it doesn't tell you is the price of magic which is
- horriblly high. AND you can only purchase 4 of the 5 magic spells per group
- available to you. You can't trade either once you purchase your 4 your
- stuck with those 4 for that group.
-
- In general its descriptive and helpful until a little after you defeat the
- second boss then your on your own.
-
- theme/story - story flow ok, explanation scenes ok nothing spectacular.
- No intro of new characters, you must choose your set of characters at the
- start and you can only change your group once near the very beginning when
- you don't know that much. No room for changing the route to progress, must
- stick with given progression.
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- Lenght of game - long
-
- Haven't finished this one yet but I have put in a good amount of time.
-
- Level of Difficulty - medium to hard. Your players get killed off alot in
- certain dugeons and you can't warp out. You either have to shut off the
- machine and start at your last save location or hope you can get your
- remaining character(s) out. This can be very frustating at times because
- you have go through the same dugeon many times to complete it
- or spend alot of time character building. Right now I'm stuck at the Ice
- Cave, I'll probably have to build my characters up 2 more levels
- which takes time, lots of time. Mazes can be quite complex in that you
- have to go through a certain route in the maze to get to the back of 1
- room and then jump through a hole to get to where you really need to be.
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- Control of battle - B
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- Have control over who does what to whom.
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- Outstanding/Unique features - none I can think of
-
- Things that ticked me off - Lack of a Life potion, if your white magic person
- gets killed or you don't have a white magic spell caster your SOL in maze.
- Lack of warping out of maze considering no life potion. Can't use soft
- potion (turn characters turned into stone back to flesh) during battle.
- Lose health quickly if you walk around poisoned. If your lead character
- gets poisoned he automatically gets swithed with the last person in line
- that not poisoned. This is usually your weakest character, you can cure
- the person and then change the order back but its really annoying.
- Lack of female characters. There all male (even though the white mage
- looks rather girlish). The extremely weak attack of the magic users except
- when they cast magic . The small number of times your spellcasters can
- cast. The weak defense of the magic users. If if weren't for the fact that
- they are very valuable when fighting undeads and boss monsters and for life
- magic I would start the game over with all fighters and warriors.
- I think there is only 1 save spot so you lose your previous game if
- you decide to try a different set of characters or you don't ever save and
- leave your game on all weekend which means if you die your SOL and you will
- die at least once.
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- View - overhead
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- Next up - Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar and Dungeon Magic
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