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83It's got excellent battle mechanics, plenty of character building choices, a bright airy feel, some witty interjections from Ryduo and Skye, and has hours and hours of gameplay.
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80Enjoy Grandia II for its appealing characters, interesting story, 30+ hour length and the best active-time battle engine in the business.
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The battle system still rocks the house if you're a fan of fast-paced turn-based systems.
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80The voice-acting is noteworthy, but there are some just rudimentary audio effects and the music is sometimes dramatic, sometimes just unexciting...Good, basic RPG fare.
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Grandia II happily dwells in a genre where its players will sacrifice a bit of visual quality for a compelling story and excellent combat and character mechanics. Luckily, these are delivered in spades.
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75Grandia II still stands out as a fantastic RPG...[though] the graphics took a punch in the teeth in the translation.
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74Grandia II may not look like much from a technical standpoint--disappointingly, the game actually looks a bit worse than the original Dreamcast version--but its visual design is well done.
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72It’s not the best RPG out there, far from that. But it’s still pretty fun o play, although it might need some getting used to.
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71A great game... that you should be playing on another system.
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70The biggest feather in the game's cap lies in it's amazing battle system. [Feb 2002, p.42]
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70It has its ups and its downs, and it certainly isn't the equal of its predecessor, but it's a good-looking game and an absolutely great-playing one.
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The graphics are dated and Ryundo's bad-boy character has been done to death. But those are only small faults in an otherwise excellent game.
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A fantastic break from the Final Fantasy-dominated RPG genre.
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To put it bluntly, this game's graphics are a mess...still a great RPG. [Feb 2002, p.107]
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An above average RPG when released on the lesser Dreamcast system, on the PS2 it is merely average.
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Tie the archaic visual presentation to the nauseating plot and uninteresting character personalities, and the end result is yet another RPG that doesn't live up to the expectations. [Mar 2002, p.79]
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60It has an original take on the combat system but its average graphics and strictly linear gameplay will not guarantee a long shelf life.
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The game suffers from slowdown that drags the game to a slowdown, clipping, and worst of all it has a tendency to freeze up, requiring the PS2 to be reset.
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Inexplicably horrible graphics completely ruin an otherwise splendid title. [Feb 2002, p.156]