Not what I was expecting at first, but as you advance, This game grows on you and the flaws seem less important
User Rating: 8.4 | Odin Sphere PS2
Alright, upon reaching Chapter 4 of Gwendolyn's story, I finally got to see the sheer depth of this amazingly gorgeous graphical and epic tale. In the beginning you didn't have much for special abilities, little pouch room for items, and your items stink; this making the game rather bland and easy to put down. As you get into alchemy more and it gets deeper it quickly becomes addictive and fun. Both english and japanese voice acting is incredible. I'll be sure to play the game through in both. Incredibly fun game, and a real diamond in the rough. If you like RPG's action or not, you owe it to yourself to give this underated game a shot. As Far as all the people who say this game is sooooo hard, and some reviewer's that say they died "20 times" or even near there, they really really suck at video games, and should be playing Barbie Horse adventure games or Emo's fun with alphabet. On the first character i died at MAX 3 times, if you have at least average IQ you should be able to learn the enemies' patterns just fine and should be able to avoid or plan ahead better next fight. The lag is off-setting, yes, but at times it comes in handy. EX: If an enemy is crouching to do a massively damaging attack that would normally hit you with little room for your reflexes to act, but lag comes in, it gives you time to go "Crap!" (or whatever you may say or think to yourself), to stop attacking and jump out of the way.
