Too short but still a good time collecting recepies.

User Rating: 8.4 | Iris no Atelier: Eternal Mana 2 PS2
Pros.
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The idea with collecting recepies has been made in a lot of games (latest DQ8) but i have never had this fun mixing herbs.
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Going between two worlds really ads to the gameplay and makes a good blend of things to do.
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Nice and relaxed story
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If you have the right alchemy-items you can always turn the random encounters on and of and in this way choose your fights.
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All your characters get xp from fights even if they partisipated or not.

Cons
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Way to short. I finished it in 28 hours and in this time i managed to do every single sidequest.
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Sidequests? I counted them to 2 and thats a bit little since the story is so short.
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What happened to the moviesequenses? They could atleast have put in one every 5th hour. And the graphics are kind of lacking ingame too.
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The sound. I found myself turning of the sound on the tv on three stages. Some ok voiceacting but the music makes you forget that.
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Most of the characters are a total ripoff from other games but mostly Dragonquests beloved arsenal of enemys. Can they really get away with this much?