Agarest: Generations of War

Weird to me that so many GOG reviewers can give a five-star pass to borderline unplayable old-school RPGs based purely on their nostalgic value, and trash a quirky little gem like Records of Agarest War. GOOD: + Enjoyable roster of characters; cute sprites, graphics, & animations. + Unique take on tactics-style gameplay, with a lot of emphasis placed on chaining together the abilities of the different characters. Special techniques are unlocked or purchased as you move through the game, so your roster of potential tactical moves is ever-growing. + Combat: a great balance of depth and approachability/fun, once you get your head around it. + The casual, anime dating-sim like interludes. They're shallow and silly, but it breaks up the grindiness. Eventually your initial party of characters produces offspring to be the next "generation," etc. (you can play through multiple generations of characters). + Story unfolds in different ways based on choices -- think Banner Saga with cute anime characters & a better save system. NEUTRAL: ~ Someone mentioned that the battles and animations are way too slow. True, but easily fixed: you can go into the .INI file, make a simple change to the FPS cap, and viola -- game isn't slow anymore. Just Google it. ~ Wildly unbalanced DLC. Avoid it if you want maximum challenge, but it can be fun. BAD: ~ Definitely gets grindy after a while. The story/world are kind of shallow and there's not a lot of atmosphere per se. That's about it though. Maybe I'm in the minority on this game, but if you enjoy tactics-based combat with cute JRPG-style characters, I'd urge you not to write this one off.

This game, as it is, is a huge pain. When you play it, it really feels very repetive even in the first hours, because the battles are insanly the same thing over and over. You wll very quickly start to be brain dead from having battles over battles, and even if the story isn't anything special, it will be your very little ray of hope. I tried to play as long as I could, but it really feels much more like a chrore than pleasure. Such a waste.. should they have made the battle in a way that was enjoyable, and not having them everywhere with the same pattern, it would have been a different story, but as it is, it's really a painfull experience.

This game is REALLY bad. The only reason it's not 1 star is because it functions as a game at least. People will say 'it's hard, it's complex, it's super hardcore, you didn't understand the game'. That's probably true for an average player, but even if you do understand the game, it's STILL a bad game. Man where do I start. Story, music, audio, sfx, are all terrible. Even the audio queueing is terrible. No basic options, runs in a bad framerate. Characters are almost all either dull, or disgustingly bad, especially when you hit generation 3, where the worst character in the game and the MC of the generation basically become the same shit character. The english is bad, it goes for like medival but not quite english and some places the translations so bad even I with no actual experience or knowledge can tell what's being said is very different than what's written. There's two saving graces; the art, by which I mean the the character art, and the battle system idea. But not the actual battle system. The battle system fails from the UI and every step of the way. Conflicting design choices, things requiring multiple requirements to employ because they designed it all to be arranged around the linking of characters. Information, guides, damage, etc are all half assed presented if it's even there, the main parts of the battle system have no real information you'd want. Even equipement staggering for slots is done badly; got a character you want to use x skill on? well you can't until 40 hours into the game because, guess what there's also a really bad crafting system in the game and you can't get a weapon with the skill slot you want on the character you need until that late. So when people say that there's a 'lot of customization' they're wrong, they just lucked the setups they wanted to do were available at the time. Crafting UI is terrible, doesn't tell you what you've crafted (which is important because you can buy from the store afer you done so)

I played this game on Ps5's Ps Plus Catalogue. By all rights, the game is dated and extremely painful and slow if you aren't following a guide or actually know what you're doing. Especially since you have to play it more than once. But I have awakened and liked it all the same, I may be sick in the head but at least now I know that I am. The game is so against telling you things that it's kind of amazing. You may run out of money as soon as you hit the 1st or 2nd town, but don't worry because the game never tells you that there's an item in the points shop that literally makes you rich by selling just 1 of them. You may have been poor, but the game never tells you how to make money so it's not your fault anymore. Overall I liked this game so much in fact that I'm going to buy the pc version of this game just so I can have a wallpaper of Fyuria, because the end of gen 1 ruined my life. (If you know, you know.) I never started gen 2.

A stone cold X-Box 360 JRPG classic makes its way to PC. A fun game with a deep and interesting battle system and an interesting , if kind of contrived, storyline. Reccomended