Septerra Core: Legacy of the Creator

Septerra Core is a decent RPG for the PC in the JRPG style. 9 characters to play as and lots of places to explore for items and experience. The quest will last you many hours. Characters attack one at a time or together via magic cards. Attacks are broken up into 3 charges of strength making for some strategic choices. Sound effects are good and while there's not much music in the dungeons what's available in battle and overworld maps isn't bad at all. The problem with the game is the speed of battle is so slow sometimes especially in the first half. The animations and sound effects seem to take forever at times and until they're done you can't do anything or input other character commands while the current character is doing their attack or spell. Later in the game, a card that lets you spell attack all enemies does help to speed things up some (Big Bang and Black Hole are your friends in this aspect), but still it feels monotonous. You can potentially avoid enemies as in games like Chrono Trigger and potentially run away in battle which I often did towards the end of the game because I wanted to finish it already. The other major issue is the dungeons are mainly flipping switches to open doors to flip more switches to open more doors or make ledges. That's about it. Then you get a key item and then you have to leave the area manually in almost all cases. An option to teleport out after you got the key item isn't even offered and would've been nice to have. Again it's a decent game and worth the 99 cents I got it for on a sale, but I don't think I'll be replaying it anytime soon. I recommend you check out video clips of the game online before making a purchasing decision.

One of the best RPG´s ! This Game is so awesome. I Played it some Years ago and i Play it now. I missed the Tme with out Septerra Core :(! Thx GOG for this Game !

I started playing this game just a few days ago, and I really regret that. I should've started as soon as I bought the game. It really brought me back my childhood, when I played the likes of chrono trigger, breath of fire and the final fantasy installments for the SNES. The game's mechanics really reminds me of those games. My advice over this game is: play it! The only issue about it, is that it is a little glitchy on MS-Win 7 and later versions. But, running in compatibility mode, at 640x480 resolution and in reduced color mode (16-bit) works a lot better. I would give it 5 stars, if it had runned smoothly.

I was surprised to see this on GOG, but also happy. This was a great RPG! The characters are interesting and fun, the story itself is engaging, and the world setup is unique. It's a long game, and the turn-based combat does get a bit repetitive after a while, but it's worth sticking through for the story. Now I feel the urge to dig up my old disc and see if it will work on my current setup. If not, I may be getting it here afterall!

This is one of those games that you play once but the story stay with you forever . Yes the gameplay is a pain . yes it's tedious and even boring (they tried to copy Final fantasy but wasn't implemented right ) . BUT the story !! The story is AMAZING . The Story will hook you and drag you trough the pain and suffering of the game play till the end . And you will sit there and go 'Woooow.....' . And for the price ? GET IT!