Brave Story: New Traveler
by Xseed
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Product Summary
Brand: XseedRelease Date: 2007-07-31
Platform: Sony PSP
Model: 00105
Publisher: Xseed
Product features:
- A role-playing game with an epic tale, introducing unique characters with distinct personalities and leading the player through the imaginative world of Vision.
- No load time between battles.
- Beautifully rendered 3D graphics with a distinct visual style, highlighted by polished character and enemy movement, and a unique animation for each special ability.
- Collect special birds which you can use for mini-games or trade for rare items.
Video Game Reviews of Brave Story: New Traveler
Customer Review: About as generic as they come.
Summary: 3 Stars
When I first heard of Brave Story: New Traveler, I was expecting something fun and entertaining for the PSP, an RPG that was ORIGINAL! Luckily I soon found it used but in great condition and took it for a spin. Everything started off a little awkward, expecting starved PSP owners to buy into a typical shonen manga plot to carry us an entire game, but it seems SO generic that maybe it's all a trap, right? Maybe the characters will be deeper than 2D cutouts from any JRPG promo poster, right? Turn based battles too? Maybe we'll be offered some very deep character customization and development, Right???
Unfortunately, the answers to all of these is a resounding no. The story is mind numbingly generic, failing to ever capture your heart or attention, and the same can be said of the characters as well, whom never seem more deep and interesting than a ham sandwich. The battles are a deadly combination of being both simple and easy, coupled with the standard grinding of any rpg and the game just about kills itself. The art style may as well be nonexistent, as everyone you encounter looks like they're making a cameo from one of a thousand other games you never cared for, and the environments are as dull to look at as they are to traverse.
Sadly, the game does seem to have had quite a bit of work put into it. The graphics, though lacking in style, are well more than serviceable and the battle animations are smooth and even charming, like in the case of Yuno's constantly twitching ears. The voice acting is good enough to avoid complaints, and load times are kept to a minimum. The team behind this game could have had a gem, but instead they chucked ingenuity out the window and stuck with what they and everyone around them knew would work and nothing else.
I sincerely wish RPG loving PSP owners would stop lavishing praise on the game and just admit that the system has little to offer in the way of GOOD original RPGs. Now if you'll excuse me I'm off to play Etrian Odyssey 2 while waiting for Monster Hunter United.
Description of Brave Story: New Traveler
Fantasy becomes reality in the course of changing one's destiny from worse to better. High quality Asian animation, rich with cultural mythology, takes you through series of adventures and battles. Your travels will bring new experiences as you emerge to a new realm of consciousness, reboen to an new world. On a day that starts like any other, a boy's life is changed forever. As the main character and his friend Miki pass a leisurely afternoon, Miki suddenly collapses from an unknown illness. When the girl shows no sign of waking, the main character grows distraught over not being a better friend and not having the means to save her. Suddenly, a strange voice offers him a second chance: ?Beyond the door you can change your destiny!? He soon leaves the real world and journeys to the world of Vision, where, as a novice ?Traveler,? he will surmount myriad ordeals in hopes of ultimately meeting with the Goddess of Fortune to have a single wish granted. No load time between battles. Beautifully rendered 3D graphics with a distinct visual style, highlighted by polished character and enemy movement, and a unique animation for each special ability. Collect special birds which you can use for mini-games or trade for rare items. Network with friends to trade your birds, or game-share a mini-game to have friends assist in capturing rare birds.Role-Playing Games
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