FF7: Dirge Of Cerberus

Dirge is a 4-5.0 game. The best you can say about the game is that it works.

EGM gave this thing a 4.5 or some shit.

When was the last time EGM gave anything a 4.5 or lower?

Everyone except Jeremy Parish gave Deep Labyrinth something like 3.

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Originally Posted by Brett

When was the last time EGM gave anything a 4.5 or lower?

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They do it all the time. I've seen EGMs give out more 1s and 2s than any other publication.

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Originally Posted by Brett

EGM gave this thing a 4.5 or some shit.

When was the last time EGM gave anything a 4.5 or lower?

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EGM's gone hardcore lately, trying to angle themselves as the North American Edge. Parish even 4.5ed Ultimate Ghosts & Goblins, an act which will go down in game-reviewer-meltdown infamy alongside Nick Rox's blue shadows.

They're not alone either, even the Japanese press trashed this game. An FFVII spinoff! Japan!

The universal consensus seems to be pretty cutscenes, junk game.

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Originally Posted by StriderKyo

The universal consensus seems to be pretty cutscenes, junk game.

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The cutscenes are garbage. Very few have any cool effects--most are total garbage, poorly directed, poorly animated, generally completely pointless (cutscenes that show you walk into the room you just walked into).

:lol: Okay, that's pretty gratuitous.

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Originally Posted by Brett

EGM gave this thing a 4.5 or some shit.

When was the last time EGM gave anything a 4.5 or lower?

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Bomberman Act Zero wins! They gave it a 3, 3, 2.

This game is a shit cash-run, pure and simple.

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

True
Totally fucking wrong. Sega, Capcom, Konami, Nintendo, Namco, etc. were all better (and still are). Hell, Enix and GameArts were making better RPGs even.

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The best JRPGs ever made came from Sega, no contest. Those days are long past, though :cry:
Other than them, though, Square was really the best in those days. Vagrant Story, Tactics, Xenogears, Einhander, Tobal 2, etc.
Enix had, what, DQVII, Valkyrie Profile (both admittedly great) and Ogre Battle 64 (admittedly the best strat-rpg ever made) at the time?

Grandia could compete, but Lunar has long been one of the most overrated series out there.
Namco has really pretty much always sucked with a few flukes getting through from time to time.

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Originally Posted by Diff-chan

"hay guys, to realize Grandia's awesomeness you have to play the version you can't understand".

I think that's a sign.

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Unfortunately, it's very true. Much of its greatness is at a technical level, not story, etc (which is still excellent). The only 3d 32-bit RPGs that could compete with it visually were PDS and some of the last Square stuff like Threads of Fate, Chrono Cross, Vagrant Story, etc (and it has aged better than them imo).

Against that and a couple years later, with flat backgrounds, less ram, loading times, etc all it had going for it against that was its battle system and story which, while great, weren't enough to carry it alone.

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Originally Posted by MarkRyan

The cutscenes are garbage. Very few have any cool effects--most are total garbage, poorly directed, poorly animated, generally completely pointless (cutscenes that show you walk into the room you just walked into).

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Starting to sound like me.

Good for you. :tu: