Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Guardian's Crusade, an RPG for the ages




This game hooks you with unique battle system and cute, cartoonish 3D graphics.
You start off controlling a young, lanky legged moron wearing a knight helmet for some reason, and is aptly named, Knight.
When you go off on a errand for the mayor, because of some food crisis. When you get there, you get a sense that something bigger is going on with the world, and you come across this angel/pig thing and a hippo/rabbit (Baby, the pink thing). You are told to take it back to it's mother at God's tower (sounds formidable already) or the world will be destroyed unless you give some guy two billion dollars, whatever, you know the doom prologue.
When you take the infectiously cute freak back to town, your thoughts are confirmed by the mayor, not even a mother would want a thing that ugly, throw it in the monster cave bwahahaha, ect.
When you actualy do the deed, you feel guilty and all, so you go back and save it. thus the epic adventure BEGINZZZZZ.

I really thought the battle system was a great concept (but still turn based...ewww), but could have been better developed.
Instead of spells, you collected a thing called magic toys, which had various effects. You summon it in battle, and it gives the enemy a whack, heals you, does a Russian roulette and kills someone, ect.Some dismiss the rest of the active toys, or sacrifice them so you cant use them again in that fight, so beeeee careful.
Baby until later stages where you can have it transform into other powerful monsters to aid you, he/she is USELESS.
But still cute.
Battle- 6/10 with a gold star for effort.

The graphics were great for it's time, not a whole look of detail, but it added to the overall charm, 8/10

the music was sooooo friggin' annoying. you wanna play this for more than an hour? turn the sound off. none of the characters talk anyway. 2/10 a BRONZE star because I'm mad, but still love the game and want to reassure it.


The storyline was pretty good. you stay a loser though out the whole thing however, these stupid wannabee holy crusaders keep stealing the glory and pie! AND make you look like you're stalking them. grrrr. But it is great, very classic rpg format, just less epic. in a cool comic way. few/no side stories though . 8/10 GOLD star for Viagra reference
And, about it.

1 comment:

Saffron said...

Ew, doesn't look like a game I would ever touch.