Artifact Adventure Gaiden

Incredible, intricate, cool and fun. Artifact Adventures plays like nothing else. I'd been a fan of the series since the first one, which had traditional JRPG framings hiding a pretty intricate series of decisions and consequences, where choices matter. That's all still here, but this one brings action combat, which plays like an elastic, frantic game of Joust. Extremely fun so far. From what I've seen, there's also a pretty heavy amount of choice there, too. You could easily design your character as a nimble assassin, jumping and flying away to position yourself for a flurry of blows, a crit-focused berserker, a distance lancer or more. Diversity's further increased with artifacts, passives, skills and armor; each of which, I've seen, have a pretty big ability to change the way you approach things. It's an deep game. Though, that doesn't mean the game is without its flaws though. Difficulty is a little screwed up at the moment, normal mode is incredibly easy while hard mode, due to ...

Artifact Adventure Gaiden feels and plays like a classic JRPG. You assemble your team, each party member having a unique game-length quest and abilities. You embark on an open world, whose enemies scale to meet your level whenever you're out exploring. There are dozens of dungeons for you to find, secret quests to uncover, and the choices you make will directly change how the story pans out. The combat is basic but fun, the powerups are cool, the armour looks awesome. If you're looking for a challenge I'd suggest playing on hard, I didn't grind at all and found myself overlevelled from about halfway through the game onwards. I did seek out as many quests and dungeons as I could though, so if you rush you might be underlevelled instead. Overall I'd give it 4/5, I've been pretty much hooked from start to finish. From what I can tell there is a NG+ feature so you can assemble a new team but keep all your abilities and weapons which is nice.

Hello Friends, Today I will review the game Artifact Adventure Gaiden. This is actually a sequel to a game called Artifact Adventure. Although the original game was more challenging, I found this game to be more fun than the original game in the series. There is some difficulty on how vague the quests are, but this method is to emulate older games styles. One thing really good about this game is depending on your choices for the quests actually changes the ending of the game. There are many choices that affect how the ending will be, so choosing choices in this game actually effects the game and it's towns. Anyways, here is my PROS and CONS list: PROS: - Classic game style with monotone screens. You can change from green monotone to grey if you do not like the green type of screens. - Music in the style of retro games. - Lots of quests. - Choices matters. It changes the ending. - Multiple endings. - Many characterts to pick up to adventure with. - New game plus mode where enemies ac...

My word I never would've thought that I'd love this game as much as I did. The gameboy design was very nostalgic for me as I grew up playing it. Adventuring throughout the world was fun and knowing that all your choices matter adds on to the experience. The questing was great although for your companion quest I wish they'd tell you who you had to see for the quests to continue but thats a minor complaint. The game has a ton of replayablility too so if thats your thing then awesome! Personally, I'd say when you start the game to either go for the traveler or the nobel. (I picked the nobel because he starts out giving you a crapton of money. Overall I recommend this game to anyone who loved playing the gameboy or people who are looking for a fun RPG to play!

Extremely disappointing versus the first installment, which was a great retro JRPG experience. Walkaround/menu controls are frustrating. It frequently auto-detects a nearby person and makes you talk to them instead of searching the square you're facing. The sound is very grating, and yes I know it's intentionally supposed to feel like a Game Boy game. Combat is a slog. Feels like a Diablo potion spam, but sometimes you just die out of nowhere anyways. I'm not really getting the creator's vision. Sometimes, the sequel changes too much versus the original...

10/10 would play for 8 hours on a family roadtrip using streetlights to see the screen.

AAG is a combination of Zelda 2, Final Fantasy, and the 2D tales games in a Gameboy Style done with a modern take. If this sentence excites you, then go and play it! Controls are fine, battles and exploration are fun. The choices you are allowed to make add some interesting changes to a playthrough starting with what companions you take with you. My only critique is that the consequences that happen from your choices are often not predictable and the game asks you to make choices based on the little information it gives you; you are then judged for your actions in a way. At any rate, AAG is worth the time invested.

Artifact Adventure Gaiden and its predecessor, Artifact Adventure, are so alike in general that you could skip one of them if you've already played the other. Both of them show off a well-crafted open world where your choices matter, which is their main appeal in my opinion. But while AA features a more strategic turn-based combat, AAG encounters rely on frenetic, mindless, real time action fighting hordes. It's less rewarding, given that your chances to win depend more heavily on equipping your best items (that are very evident), and less on your approach to each battle. Your party members won't affect combat that much, either. I'm not a fan as you can tell; it was an unexpected turn for me, but I think many people will find it enjoyable. The most loud difference is the color scheme, which is just a matter of taste. It is worth of mentioning that the game options offer several schemes to choose from. All in all, I'd recommend trying out the one you think that better suits you. If yo...

I had a lot of fun playing, has some vibes from early DQ games. Great short-ish RPG with 2D bump combat.

Its actually a fun retro style action rpg. There's one problem with this game and its the reason I'm giving it a thumbs down. There is no controller or keymapping config and the default controls are horrendous. They want you to walk with the right keys, jump with the space, use different attacks with the M<> buttons (I have no idea the reasoning behind that), and its just a really big pain. I don't get it, it makes no sense, but that's why I'm giving this a negative. I suggest if a game wants you to play it in an incredibly uncomfortable way you thumb it down, because it shows lack of any kind of awareness or care for the consumer. This configuration is terrible its awful and they give you no other option. And don't even bother making the suggestion on the forum games forum is dead and inactive. The publishers are putting out a game with an incredibly unconveniant and awkward control system and they don't want to change it. Reason enough for a negative review from me.