The Shrine

<div style='font: ; text-align: left; '>My other considered games were Grandia Xtreme and Legaia 2, but both seemed inferior to the above two games...</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Don't know anything about either of those, but I am currently playing (and enjoying) Legaia 2. Solid but unspectacular, with occasional drudgery, but there is a ton of stuff to do. If I were you, I'd rent each game for a weekend and see how the first couple hours grab you.</div>

<div style='font: 14pt ; text-align: left; '>Haven't played Suikoden 3 so I can't help you on which game to get. WA3 is a pretty good game. If you've played the first 2 games, 3 is pretty much the same, just with new cell-shaded graphics and a few new tricks.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>And going by reviews/word of mouth, I'd say Suikoden 3...in fact, I'm grabbing a PS2 solely for that and GTA:VC.

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<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Played for like 3 hours and haven't been motivated to play. The story is even worse than Grandia 2 or Grandia 1, which is a feat in itself.

Probably should've got Dual Hearts or Wild Arms 3 or Suikoden 3... oh well</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Grandia 2 has good gameplay though, in the battles, some of them, it has a good autobattle engine.... There are some parts I liked in the game, like the very beginning, then I guess it's just all steeply downhill from there, though I remember the cathedral being a pretty cool scene.</div>

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>Suikoden 3 is fucking badass...I played it and beat it already....now I'm gonna start again and try to get all the stars....very good very solid....</div>

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>The gameplay is it's strongest element.</div>

<div style='font: ; text-align: left; '>I chose Hugo, only played for around 2 hours.
First, the minuses:
1. The character movements are a bit stiff, especially after playing Kingdom Hearts.
2. Battles are a bit slow, and so far the 'hit the attack button until the enemies die' tactic is still dominant.
3. Music is so-so, unlike the first Suikoden.
4. Movement on the world map is limited to only the nearest places from your current place, so it's a bit troublesome to go back to the previous towns since I have to revisit the intermediate 'dungeons' again.
5. Camera can be confusing sometimes, quite often I find the character moving towards me and I can't see what's ahead of the character, forcing me to rely on the map.

And the pluses:
1. Excellent anime intro.
2. Some of the towns are very beautiful. I like the simple and clean design of the towns.

Well that's it. I'll give it a 7 from my initial playing. Hopefully things will pick up soon.

BTW, is it just me or are the enemies incredibly small? Usually in RPGs most of the enemies are at least as big as the characters, but here the characters are like giants compared to the enemies.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Dude, the Gameplay is its ONLY element!</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>there are some big enemies later.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I think her arc is probably one of the best stories focused around a minor character. Of course that's just a fluke but had my hopes up. Well, to be honest, Malfius isn't too bad, and the beast guy is a pretty good character.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light"; text-align: left; '>I stopped playing that game after about 20 hours of gametime, because the battles got so damn boring.</div>