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4

Weak

Rent Don't Buy

posted by mackygirl (KENNESAW, GA) Jan 22, 2010

Member since Jan 2010

I love RPG's and I was excited to get this game and try it out. After Initially starting up and getting through all the long intro movie garbage was ok, but after being defeated a couple times and having to go thru all of that again, I was aggravated. It's my fault I should have looked for a Save option, but no autosave??? really??? And even after saving it, it got a little aggravating having to save after every skirmish to avoid all the not quite animation at the begining. Mainly I hated the story line, some kid thinks he's a loser and constantly puts himself down, he goes to join some militia and on his first day everyone gets killed but him. Lame story and definitely not engaging. My biggest complaint is all the frozen dialog, no animation just cardboard cutouts of various characters and long dilluted conversations.And half the time there is no voiceover for the dialog and the other half there is, makes no sense.
After playing this game several days in a row, I downloaded the Lunar Star Silver Harmony demo and whadda you know? Auto save and real animation, not just animation but nicely detailed anime. Yeah the mission on the demo is weird, but still a thousand times better than this game.
If you really want to play this game, rent don't buy.

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GF Rating
4

Weak

Stuck in the nineties.

posted by borislav (DES PLAINES, IL) Jun 4, 2009

Member since Jul 2007

2 out of 11 gamers (18%) found this review helpful

Crimson Gem Saga might have been ACCEPTABLE ten years ago, but in this day and age it's not even tolerable. The game will give you a crash course in what you could've expected from a generic RPG in the nineties. Annoying characters, boring plot, repetitive battles, and so on and so forth.

As if things weren't bad enough, Atlus took it a step further by forcing players to listen to the english dub. Another annoying thing is the lack of facial expressions in the character portraits. Everyone has only one expression throughout the entire game. Nice.

The game only has two redeeming qualities. Nice looking background art and the ability to save your game anywhere at any time. Of course these qualities don't a good game make. Skip this one and wait for Atlus to release a true gem--which seems to happen less and less these days.

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5

Fair

Crimson Gem Saga...in?

posted by IllogicalJ (BROOKLYN, NY) Jul 13, 2009

Member since May 2005

2 out of 6 gamers (33%) found this review helpful

Crimson Gem Saga is an RPG throwback with enough fourth-wall breaking commentary (ala Disgaea) to justify its bland story and blander characters. It's also got nice hand-drawn areas that help to make the redundancy of dungeons a little more palatable.

But by the end of the second (of four) chapters, you'll find yourself saying "Again?" more often than anything. If you tweak your skill tree properly, grinding is a snap, but even when you're spamming attacks that hit all enemies, battling still takes ages, and leaves you feel unrewarded, to boot.

Between this and Black Sigil, another recent old-school RPG, the latter is better in just about every way, and ultimately, is just one more reason why the DS is beating the PSP.

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