GRANDIA HD Remaster

An adorable adventure with likable characters and a great world. Learning new battle skills can be a bit grindy but this game is so charming that I think anyone can enjoy it

I wanted a short JRPG with a nice focus on romance. It ended up being a LONG ass JRPG with only two snippets of romance scenes but I did not expect such a fantastic story, music and world.. also this game can be DIFFICULT (tho I did destroy that final boss). I was captivated despite going into this game with a different vision for it. This is the only game I have ever played that truly made me feel like I was on a real adventure. 8.7/10 -- some of the areas are just annoying to navigate and the optional dungeon (Tower of Temptation) was so horrendously bad design-wise that it was the first time in gaming I decided to just not do it. Using an online map didn't help. I would have liked a mini-map. The bosses aren't super memorable and the Final Boss was a bit lacking. Everything else was exceptional otherwise: Story, Combat, Music, Character Development, World and more. I also really loved the MC. *I did take into consideration that this game was made in 1997 while writing this* ED...

As a child of playstation I did not have the chance to play it when it came out, and then I missed on the PS1 port. I finally decided to take the time to get into it. Game is quite grindy because of how spells and weapons work, or at least it is for me, but I am clearly too overpowered for when I am. The real seller is the story. Grandia writing is fantastic, the sense of adventure it gives made me so nostalgic. Especially in recent years where I have seriously struggled to find a modern RPG that gripped me, this is all that I have been missing from that 5th console generation RPG era.