Revenant Wings Reactions

[Necronopticous]

I'm about 7 hours into Revenant Wings.

It's great, very simplistic and refined gameplay. It's pretty easy, so that might turn some people off, but in my opinion it just serves to complement the simplicity of the gameplay mechanics.

Really cute graphics and a light little story. It is definitely not the beast that Final Fantasy XII for the DS, though I never expected it to be. I'm having a good time with it. Has anyone else had the pleasure?

[Crossblades]

I'm having a good time with it. Has anyone else had the pleasure?

I'm not gonna import. I'll just wait for the US release:p

But glad to hear that your enjoying it. Would you say that RW is better than FF III? Also, care to enlighten us on the battle system? Is there Dungeon crawling?

[Bolivar]

I'm surprised there's still no US release date. I hope it does well in Japan, I'm looking forward to this game.

How would you describe the gameplay? Also, if you're playing w/ a translation/understand japanese, what do you think of the story?

[Necronopticous]

I like it better than Final Fantasy III DS simply because I couldn't stand how unforgivingly tedious every random encounter was in that game. They aren't really comparable, though, since they're a totally different kind of game.

The battle system is totally real-time strategy--you have leader units, which are normally story characters: Vaan, Penelo, Ba'Gamnon, temporarily, etc. Each of these leaders has a few minions under their control for a total of normally around 15-20 units you're controlling on each map. Like any other real-time strategy game, you eventually gain means to create your own new minions for your leaders up to a certain unit count, should you lose some over the course of the map.

The minions that you can choose from are set up prior to the battle, and you unlock new ones through a system not unlike a miniature version of Final Fantasy X's sphere grid. They are the usual Final Fantasy critters you'd expect... Chocobos, Bombs, Sabotenders, etc. All sorted into elemental categories. You can choose a total of five types of minions to bring into battle, among three tiers of overall stats. As you encounter and defeat espers throughout the story, their nodes will become available on this grid as well.

The units move pretty slow on the map, but overall the game is pretty well paced. The movement speed is just about right to give you time to nicely micro-manage your leader units to cast the correct spells and abilities during a fight.

Speaking of skills and abilities, the idea of "gambits" have been implemented, but in an extremely simplified version...basically you can select one of your skills for each leader unit, and he/she will perform this skill by default if it's ready to be used. Other skills must be manually selected and executed.

There is no "dungeon-crawling" per se, just individual maps for each level.

Like I said, the gameplay is fun yet simplistic. I would think that it would be generally accessible for anyone.

I can't understand enough of the game to know the details of the story, however I understand the underlying concepts of what's going on and while I won't spoil anything (there isn't really that much to spoil) I will say that so far it's very light...Seems like light humor has taken the center stage in this one. Don't expect the same kind of big-picture story arcs as you got in Final Fantasy XII, it's wholly different.

[Dynast-Kid]

Sounds nice!

Ooh, what summons do you have!?

[Bolivar]

I like it better than Final Fantasy III DS simply because I couldn't stand how unforgivingly tedious every random encounter was in that game. They aren't really comparable, though, since they're a totally different kind of game.

The battle system is totally real-time strategy--you have leader units, which are normally story characters: Vaan, Penelo, Ba'Gamnon, temporarily, etc. Each of these leaders has a few minions under their control for a total of normally around 15-20 units you're controlling on each map. Like any other real-time strategy game, you eventually gain means to create your own new minions for your leaders up to a certain unit count, should you lose some over the course of the map.

The minions that you can choose from are set up prior to the battle, and you unlock new ones through a system not unlike a miniature version of Final Fantasy X's sphere grid. They are the usual Final Fantasy critters you'd expect... Chocobos, Bombs, Sabotenders, etc. All sorted into elemental categories. You can choose a total of five types of minions to bring into battle, among three tiers of overall stats. As you encounter and defeat espers throughout the story, their nodes will become available on this grid as well.

The units move pretty slow on the map, but overall the game is pretty well paced. The movement speed is just about right to give you time to nicely micro-manage your leader units to cast the correct spells and abilities during a fight.

Speaking of skills and abilities, the idea of "gambits" have been implemented, but in an extremely simplified version...basically you can select one of your skills for each leader unit, and he/she will perform this skill by default if it's ready to be used. Other skills must be manually selected and executed.

There is no "dungeon-crawling" per se, just individual maps for each level.

Like I said, the gameplay is fun yet simplistic. I would think that it would be generally accessible for anyone.

I can't understand enough of the game to know the details of the story, however I understand the underlying concepts of what's going on and while I won't spoil anything (there isn't really that much to spoil) I will say that so far it's very light...Seems like light humor has taken the center stage in this one. Don't expect the same kind of big-picture story arcs as you got in Final Fantasy XII, it's wholly different.

that sounds awesome.

from a screenshot i saw and what you described of the battle, it kind of sounds like the Fort Condor mini-game in FFVII.

[Setzer Gabianni]

Do you get to control Mandragoras ._.

[Hazzard]

Hmmm. I think I would have to acquire a DS in the near future.