If you're looking for Disgaea or FF Tactics, keep looking; this IS NOT IT!
User Rating: 5.2 | Generation of Chaos PSP
Generation of Chaos suffers from a vast number of problems that make it almost impossible to recommend. First of these is the utter lack of a proper introduction to the game mechanics. There is no true in-game tutorial for beginners, and the game's manual is more a glossary of terms and abbreviations than any real primer on how the game works. On top of this, the game appears to be very poorly programmed... while running it constantly attempts to stream data off the UMD, and there are repetitive (and annoying) stutters in play that make it obvious that the developers did this in a way that tax es the PSP's I/O subsystem. The result is a... very... slow... and... disjointed... play... experience. This may be tolerable in small amounts, but it seems to be a consistent problem throughout all stages of play.
These problems would be acceptable if, like other Nippon Ichi games like Disgaea or Phantom Brave, there were a compelling story to pull you into the experience and overlook the technical deficiencies. However, it takes far too many hours of frustratingly slow gameplay (a problem made all the worse by the game's William Shatner-esque loading issues) for the story to even begin to get interesting. This makes Generation of Chaos a game that should stay on the shelf and NOT in your collection.
