Grandia> Skies

I think it's a shame that people like SOA better than Grandia 2.......both games are weak story wise. We all know that G2's story is unremarkable, but then what's so special about skies? Get six crystals and save the world? As Frogacuda has said on another forum, the SOA plotis just a parody of the first Final Fantasy.

Gameplay wise Grandia 2 is fantastic. The dungeons are actually very well designed and the battle system is one of the best? So what if it's so easy? At least it taxes your gaming skills. SOA on the other hand has trillions of random battles ....and the battle system isnt all that great.

I'm not saying that SOA is a shitty game.......it's worth buying my IMO it's not as good as Grandia 2.

Discuss.

Grandia 2 is a piece of poop. Skies is an excellent game imo, what made it so good was just how much heart it had, and the really wonderful atmosphere. Grandia 1 was actually similar in a lot of ways in that respect, but Grandia 2 was just annoying as hell for me.

Both of their stories were terrible( then again 90% of console RPG stories are), but Grandia 2 had some fun dungeons and battles.

Eternal Arcadia is a great game but the battle system really sucks. Really easy to suss out, I had 3 battle strategies for the different battle types (swarm, boss, middle tier enemies) and only one strategy needed for ship battles. Magic sucks because the items do the same thing yet take less action points and no MP. The magic aint strong or impressive looking enough either so it's best to stick to physical attacks. This is off memory so I can't elaborate much on this but all the battles were easy and I never died once. I enjoyed it, the characters were fun but overall Final Fantasy X was the better game by far.

I liked the stories in SoA.

Uplifting, with none of the moodiness, or acopolyptic overtones that we get in most rpgs.

what version are we talking about for grandia 2 the dc or ps2?...i really like the dc version, but i here that the ps2 very is a crap port...

Dc.

No one makes better RPGs than GameArts - not Sega, not Konami, not Enix, and sure as hell not Square.

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Originally posted by Sidez
I enjoyed it, the characters were fun but overall Final Fantasy X was the better game by far.

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If only FFX had an airship earlier on, I would agree with you that FFX was one of the best RPGS ever.

Grandia II was a far seperior game. SoA wasn't a bad game, it just didn't dazzle me like G2 did.