Albert Odyssey

by Sunsoft

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• ASIN: B00004SW23
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,853 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

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Albert Odyssey Gaiden: Legend of Eldean Japanese Format (NTSC-J). Box,package,

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a great RPG for experts and beginners alike, July 11, 2001

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"pantman1210" (Sacramento) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Albert Odyssey (Video Game)

I was at a local video store looking for a game to rent when my dad told me to rent albrt odyssey. I was kind of reluctant at the time, but now I know to trust my father's judgement.

Albert Odyssey is a great game. You start off with a cinematic and somewhat hokey scene of you as a baby and yur village is getting attacked by goblins. Your parents are brutally killed and you are left to die by their side. However, a beautiful Harpy named Laia comes and rescues you.

Eventually, 10 years pass, and you are all grown up. Laia asks you to do a favor, and when you go to do it, an evil man named Belnard comes and steals the village's sacred crystal. Laia comes to rescue you, but Belnard shoots a beam at you and Laia, turning both of you to stone. You shake off the effects of the beam because you are a human, but Laia is stuck in her stone form. You then go on a quest to kill Belnard, restore Laia and also kill something called Radoria. You get characters to join your party, and it gets really fun.

The gameplay in Albert Odyssey is great. The learning curve is abiut 1 hour, and it gets really fun as your battles get harder. The graphics and music aren't the best, but the excellent gameplay make up for it. This game is the sequel to the Super Famicon games ALBERT ODYSSEY abd ALBERT ODYSSEY 2 released only in Japan. I would definitely recommend that you buy a Sega Saturn just for this game.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pure RPG gold!, April 7, 2005

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Bokan - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Albert Odyssey (Video Game)

Man do I love this game! Both the game and soundtrack are as rare as dinosaur fossils and you'd best congratulate yourself if you ever get your hands on either. I was first drawn to this RPG through old 1990's magazine editions of EGM and GamePlayer. I mostly had my eyes on how unique the party members were since it's composed of an interesting cast of heroes:

Pike: A silent young man with a magical talking sword
Eka: A dancer girl with a sharp tongue and great magic skills
Leos: A shinto priestess with great strength and mystical powers
Gryzz: My all time favorite character, a godly powerful humanoid dragon samurai with just about every dragon breath weapon known to dragonkind
Amon: A humanoid bird with exceptional speed and spearfighting abilities
Kia: A cute and powerful spellcasting girl with a kind heart and an amusing wit

What a crew! The game's battle system, though simple, has that old school feel many of us remember from the old days. The spells in this game have amazing animations for one of the older games of its time and the boss battles are VERY challenging. Even power leveling in this RPGs does not make any boss fight easier. Most bosses in this game have absurd amounts of HP and pretty much force you to throw everything you've got at them to win. One boss in particular kept me going for over an hour in battle and he was a dangerous one I might add. The music is pretty good too (a theme for just about every situation in the game), especially considering no one's remotely heard of Naoki Kodaka.

I only wish, after playing this great game, that Working Designs would sequel it already. I know there were two AOs before this one but they are completely different in gameplay in comparison to this one.

Note: An interesting bit of info about this AO's story. This game is actually a side story you hear about in one of the previous AO games, heard from a villager who simply mentions he saw "a young man leading an interesting band of allies somewhere."

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good (but not great) classic RPG, March 3, 2010

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Son of Tiamat - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Albert Odyssey (Video Game)

First off, I am a dragon lover. I simply LOVE dragons and a while ago about I bought a Sega Saturn just so I could play two RPGs in which one of the playable characters is an adorable and buff looking dragon. Those two are Albert Odyssey and Shining the Holy Ark.

This actually isn't the first time I played this game. Years ago, I found a nine year old EGM2 magazine in my closet that I once got in a trip to Acapulco when I was 11. I remember trying to digest every amount of detial regarding both RPGs mentioned therein, even though I didn't own a Saturn and would not own one until 2009 (I just thought the dragons were cool). Me and a friend of mine both drooled over Albert Odyssey and he decided to buy a copy on ebay as well as a working Saturn. He let me borrow it and we both played it.

After playing it again years later I can honestly say its a good RPG but somewhat dissapointing storywise. The beautiful box art and cool name make it sound like one of the greatest RPG stories ever. Honestly though, it's pretty mediocre. It doesn't make the game unplayable, at least. The rest of the game plays pretty well. The story, however, is just lacking. It's more like a string of inexplicalbe events tied together to make something like a story. For instance, take a scence about four hours into the game in which you enter a vampire's castle. The way the camra panes up on the intimidating structure is reminiscent of Chrono Trigger when you first enter Magus' catslte. However, the vampire is HARDLY the badass Magus was and his entrance (and exit) from the story is pretty damn unceremonious. That's about how the whole game's story is. Bad dialouge, unpredictable, but not amazing, plot developments and a story anyone could have come up with. I found myself not caring one iota about the whole struggle of good and evil crap, I just wanted more of the game.

In summation, a so-so good game with a cute dragon character who wears armor and uses swords and has different breath attacks.

P.S. I paid 70$ for this game and...while I like it, I don't think the price was right. If you're just an RPG buff looking for Working Designs games try looking for a better price. After all, it's not like this is Lunar or Arc the Lad.