Turn Based RPG that's good and not Final Fantasy!

[Dameon Angell]

Atelier Iris - Playstation 2
1 Player
Turn Based RPG

Rating: 8.5/10

A turn based RPG, Atelier Iris looks and plays like an old school Super Nintendo RPG reimagined for the Playstation 2. I just started playing it, so I'll say this rating is good for the first couple hours of the game, but I'm loving it. It's made by the same people who produced Disgaea and La Pucelle Tactics, Nippon Ichi. The nicely drawn sprites are there as well as the voice acting and scripting which I found was done quite well. The only problem is one of the "mana" spirits named Popo ... or something. I just hate him and his annoyingly cute voice. But that's about it.

Lots of item crafting and the magic system is based on synthesizing items from the towns, fields, and dungeons that you use your Alchemists staff to create and on other items and your skills, you use Mana (MP) to power them. Awesome game so far all in all, check it out.

[SpiderMage]

Atelier Iris - Playstation 2
1 Player
Turn Based RPG

Rating: 8.5/10

A turn based RPG, Atelier Iris looks and plays like an old school Super Nintendo RPG reimagined for the Playstation 2. I just started playing it, so I'll say this rating is good for the first couple hours of the game, but I'm loving it. It's made by the same people who produced Disgaea and La Pucelle Tactics, Nippon Ichi. The nicely drawn sprites are there as well as the voice acting and scripting which I found was done quite well. The only problem is one of the "mana" spirits named Popo ... or something. I just hate him and his annoyingly cute voice. But that's about it.

Lots of item crafting and the magic system is based on synthesizing items from the towns, fields, and dungeons that you use your Alchemists staff to create and on other items and your skills, you use Mana (MP) to power them. Awesome game so far all in all, check it out.

Heard extremely good things about this game and 'd get it if the "gamer" part of me wasn't slacking off.

[Liquid Blue]

Shadow Hearts 2 is good, it surprised me just how much ass it actually kicks.

[Superted]

Not Final Fantasy?! Then I don't wanna know...

But seriously, I've seen this on Gamespot and thought "looks nice", don't know if it's been released in UK/EU yet though.

EDIT: Nope, it's not in amazon.co.uk database and if it's not in amazon then it's not planning on coming out any time soon either. Bleh.

[Stabwound]

The Atelier series of games is aimed towards young girls, and this one is no exception.

[Troll King]

I don't know if it's just my copy that's glitchy but sometimes the voice tracks don't play properly and get cut off mid-syllable. I like the item creation system but the story line seems far too lose.

[Lucon]

Tales of Destiny 2 owns it.

[Dameon Angell]

I don't know if it's just my copy that's glitchy but sometimes the voice tracks don't play properly and get cut off mid-syllable..

Haha I noticed that too, but I thought my stereo was just screwing up. good times.

[Troll King]

That still isn't something that should happen in a game's initial release. It's not a very common occurence, but it's enough for it to be inexcusable.

[Dameon Angell]

It personally didn't bother me at all, I didn't even mention it til you brought it up, lol.

[Torn Wing]

RPG's hardly keep my attention for more than an hour, unless its like Pokemon for gameboy, that game still owns.

[kites]

RPG's hardly keep my attention for more than an hour, unless its like Pokemon for gameboy, that game still owns.

I prefer FF Tactics Advanced, gives you more options.

[Torn Wing]

Oldschoo like FF3 on Sega was awesome.

[Xog]

A not-so-well-known awesome turn-based RPG game for the PlayStation 2 (two) is "Disgaea:Hour of Darkness."

It's just flawless. You're a demon underlord who's father is the overloard. You were 'mysteriously' put into a dark sleep by an unknown force and while you're asleep, your father is murdered.

Laharl (the main character, you) is awaken by a sexy demon-like woman who is concearned about your whereabouts. All the demons are currently at war with eachother and you must prove your worthiness by battling the other underloards and prove your strength. You must become the Overloard of the Underworld, with a confused Angel who doesn't know evil from good on your side!

I personally love this game, my highest character is level 62. There isn't any level caps, so you can be like level 2000 and still be fighting things your level. It's unbelievable!

With items you can "go inside" the weapon/armor piece and go through different battle stages and improve the quality of your armor or weapon. There's stats and abilites and whatnot that you can improve, spells, etc.

I'd definately recommend this game to ANYONE and EVERYONE who is into RPGs, even if they dont like turn-based games.

Edit:
you can check out http://images.google.com/images?q=disgaea&hl=en for screenshots and other pictures related to the game.

[Xog]