Mana Khemia: Student Alliance for PSP Reviews by Gamers

This game might have been very enjoyable to play were it not for the horrendous load times. Normally I tend to disregard the occasional UMD access, even abnormal amounts, simply because I understand that a UMD system must access the UMD. It would be silly to expect otherwise.

This game is ridiculous in the amount of times it must stop and load data. Everything that you do in this game causes a UMD stutter. That is not an exaggeration. Everything short of walking across a room requires that the PSP read from the UMD, and even sometimes walking will cause the game to stutter as it tried to quickly read the UMD to refresh at the appropriate frame rate. There is no enjoying this game simply because of that.

If we don't take the constant UMD access in to account, probably my only gripe with the game is the constant and redundant dialog that serves absolutely no purpose but to provide banter. This is not solely exclusive to this game, though, and you could really say the same thing about every JRPG.

Avoid this game. Play the original. Play something else. Do ANYTHING but waste time playing this game... and when I say "playing this game" what I mean is "listening to the UMD drive spin". Ridiculous to think that the developers thought that anyone would find this acceptable.

This game is not so great.Every time it seems like its loading on the simplest things such as moving on the map screen or before and after battels. A simple 15 minutes of gameplay equals about 30 minutes with all the loading screens you'll have to suffer though.