A very fun game that will keep you hooked till the end

User Rating: 8.4 | Grandia II PS2
After I got annoyed with Shadow hearts 3 I decided to start something new so I started up Grandia 2 and I loved it start to finish.The game has a very nice story and great characters with a very fun battle system that keeps the battle interesting and never the same thing twice. You start out as Ryudo a geohound aka mercenary he takes any job if it pays good and he is hired to be a body guard a nice and simple job but today just isn't his lucky day and ends up going on a bing long adventure to save the world from evil.

The battles are fun with up to 4 party members at a time and each one learns there own special attacks that can be upgraded to be more powerful.How the battles work is you got a little bar at the bottom of your screen with 3 parts to it wait,com,and act then on top and bottom of the bar you got little icons of the bad guys and your guys so everyone waits till they get to the command part of the bar then you select what you want do attack,special attack,critical attack,and items then it goes to action and they do what you selected.You can equip each guy with a mana egg and thats what gives them the magic spells that they can use and those can be upgraded like the special attacks so they do more damage and go into action faster and you can switch the eggs around to whoever you want.The critical attack dosen't do as much damage but it can cancel an enemy's attack so they lose a turn giving you more time to set up your attacks and keep from getting killed.When in battle your guys and the bad guys are running around on the battle field so if you see the bad guys geting ready to attack you you can try to evade and run out of the way so that he misses you or cant keep up and gives up on you but magic attacks cant be avoided.You can also find skill books and equip skills to add even more like fast item use or more defence and so on.

This is a very nice and fun game and you really should give it a try and see how fun it is and the only thing that I really didn't like was a few times the text went a bit fast and I didn't get to see it all but other then that it was great.