Yes! Yes! More!
Written: Mar 07 '00
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Pros: Fun!, Replayability
Cons: Some Rules are Dumb
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| JadeMurphy's Full Review: Ogre Battle Limited Edition The March of the Black... |
This is an excellent game! I bought it last year, but didn't get around to playing it until recently. I had a baby, so when did you expect me to play this game?
Anyway, now that my infant daughter isn't so obsessed with being in my lap 24/7, I've been able to start playing this game. I like it! Once I figured out how to move all my troops around, recruit better people to my side, and find secret items/town, I was hooked!
I'm now over halfway through the game, but it's taken me hours to get this far. This is NOT a game that you can play all in one sitting. Forget about it. Invest in a memory card because you'll need it!
In this game, you command an army of supernatural creatures (gryphons, dragons, etc.), Mages, Clerics, and Warriors...all in the cause of freeing the land from the evil Queen's minions. You get Tarot cards that equate spells for combat, rewards/punishments for freeing towns, and helps determine your character's attributes. I enjoy this function. It is always interesting to see what card I'll get next and how to employ it against my enemies.
The secret items/towns are extremely cool. You just wander across the maps, kicking butt on all the "bad" guys and picking up secret weapons, buried treasures and finding hidden towns.
The battles remind me of Final Fantasy. The only things about combat that I didn't particularly like were that you can't pick who you want to attack whom. Your warriors/monster, etc., seem to pick their own targets. You can instruct them to attack the leader or the weakest, etc., but they don't always do it. Another thing that I didn't like is the fact that if you kill off the enemies as you're supposed to, you lose reputation points! I thought, "Well, isn't that just wonderful!" After all, the point of the game is to kill off the bad guys, but you get penalized for it?
And you aren't "supposed" to kill off innocents like clerics, but the way that I saw it was that IF they were attacking me, they weren't innocents.
If you attacked and killed them, you lost even MORE Rep. points. Needless to say, I have a reputation as a cold, ruthless killer. But, hey! I'm winning, so who cares!
There are NUMEROUS endings to this game, so it's got replayability.
It's fun and a great game.
Get it. Play it. Enjoy the experience!
Recommended:
Yes
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