I decided to start playing this again, this time through the end. I really recommend it or FFT or Tactics Ogre fans (it is made by ex-FFT devs in fact).
The game has a generic, unremarkable story, but where it shines is in some of the ingenious ideas it has.
The best idea of this game is that you have action points, but you can go above your action points threshold (up to 125%), or below, and this affects your initiative either positively or negatively. I always thought it was a brilliant idea and it works really well. I think all other tactics-type turned based or RPG games should copy it. The second best idea is that magic is casted through "coins", to which you can add enchantments, and experience with various combinations to boost the stats of your points, their MPs, etc.
They made a spiritual successor a few years after its release called Stella Deus, but I didn't find this one interesting. The story and world is bland and unbearable and they severely dumbed down the combat system, making it not very interesting anymore.
There is a PSOne version called Hoshigami: Ruining Blue Earth, and a DS one called Remix. The DS version was made 6 years after and it is much superior, it reduces much of the aggravation in the original release. It also has a superior soundtrack and a host of other improvements.
The game has a generic, unremarkable story, but where it shines is in some of the ingenious ideas it has.
The best idea of this game is that you have action points, but you can go above your action points threshold (up to 125%), or below, and this affects your initiative either positively or negatively. I always thought it was a brilliant idea and it works really well. I think all other tactics-type turned based or RPG games should copy it. The second best idea is that magic is casted through "coins", to which you can add enchantments, and experience with various combinations to boost the stats of your points, their MPs, etc.
They made a spiritual successor a few years after its release called Stella Deus, but I didn't find this one interesting. The story and world is bland and unbearable and they severely dumbed down the combat system, making it not very interesting anymore.
There is a PSOne version called Hoshigami: Ruining Blue Earth, and a DS one called Remix. The DS version was made 6 years after and it is much superior, it reduces much of the aggravation in the original release. It also has a superior soundtrack and a host of other improvements.
