THE GOOD:Fun gameplay, beautiful soundtracks, nice colourful visuals, lots of quests, good humour and various unlockables.
THE BAD:
The graphics are 2D which many modern gamers view as a dissapointment but other than that, there are no major short comings.
SUMMARY:
Well, I've never played Atelier series games before and this RPG was a real pleasant surprise for me. The gameplay is really fun and Eternal Mana is one of the RPGs I've enjoyed the most. There are so much various dialogues with NPCs, so many items to collect, quests, hidden locations - meaning the game never has any real boring moments and keeps you busy with gameplay from the start to the end. The story is nothing particularly original and is pretty simple and generic but in fact this game doesnt try to have any high level storyline, it's just good old fashioned fun. The characters are pretty generic as well, however, I didn't find this to be altogether that bad. The battles are traditional turn based in which you can control a party of 3 characters. You have the handy feature of changing characters during battle as well, which is something many RPGs do not allow.
This game doesn't offer any really new RPG elements but is good enjoyable, addictive fun that more games should be like.
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