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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Very Enjoyable Game, December 28, 2004
A Kid's Review
Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
Brigandine is admittedly a simple game, however, it is possible that this simplicity is what makes it so endearing. You choose to be one of 5 countries and then your goal is to set out and conquer all of Forsena. The (main) characters are pretty interesting, and though their dialogue is limited, you get a sense of what kind of people they are. It's not the best game when it comes to graphics - the monsters have only have a few shapes just with a different paint jobs, and all the normal knights, not the leaders, look alike if they are the same class. The monsters themselves are vey interesting, being derived from all sorts of myths from around the world. The stories for the countries are simple, but usually cute, and if I may say so, Leonia's storyline is exceptionally cute. It is true that to win, you just need the strongest army, but it's fun to switch classes to learn different spells and figure out how to best approach the enemy. The beginning battles are the hardest and require the most strategy, but that's not to say the later battles require no strategy. One of my favorite things to do is to send surplus knights of mine off questing and seeing what they bring back. In my opinion, the quests are one of the best parts of the game because they are random, and getting stuff (or getting hurt) from the various adventures is somehow enthralling. I liked playing this game, and as side information to help people to see where I am coming from, my favorite genres are RPGs, strategy, and action, in that order.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
BEST GAME I HAVE PLAYED IN YEARS., September 3, 2001
By A Customer
This game is truely awsome, I loved the battle and the gameplay. This game is really, really hard and you must be an RPG master to beat this game. You can choose from 6 armies(Purple, L2+R1+Start at kingdom selcet screen)to control, battle,and rule. There are at least 50 mosters and knights to control. You can play as mages, preists, ninjas, and much more. take my addvice and try this game.
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12 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Too simple for its own good, August 29, 2001
Strategy games by their very definition usually mean that you're in for an in-depth experience that will challenge your brain cells. Not so with Brigandine. It doesn't have enough options to attract hardcore strategists, and it's too dull to draw neophytes to the genre. You select one of five kingdoms, differing only in geographical location and in initial Rune Knights (human characters with classes such as Witch, Druid, Berserker, etc.). The world map is divided into battlegrounds connected by roads, and you're given a certain amount of game time to take 'em all by force (except for those two kingdoms on the west coast that are all buddy-buddy). Each Rune Knight controls a squadron of monsters (which can be created and, occasionally, swiped from defeated enemies) which can increase in size as their experience level goes up. To conquer new territory, you can send 1 to 3 Rune Knights (one is suicide, two isn't much better) to a neighboring location in enemy hands and do battle. The fighting is done on large maps divided into hexigons and it's about as simple as can be. There aren't many spells to cast and the cardinal rule here is that whoever has the biggest, baddest monsters wins. When one unit attacks another, the game cuts to a battle scene where you see the attack and, sometimes, the counterattack in duller-than-a-bowling-ball 3-D. Mercifully, you can turn this option off to expedite the fighting. The "story" (such as it is) is told through dialogue boxes superimposed over the world map. At the end of the day, this game just doesn't try hard enough to draw the player in. It's a time-killer, nothing more. Fans of "grid" style strategy/RPGs like Final Fantasy Tactics (which happens to be my favorite video game EVER in spite of its occasional if-you-don't-have-the-right-skill-equipped-for-this-fight-you-are-utterly-screwed unfairness) may be drawn to it since this genre is not the most populist, but it's a limp-wristed production. Without the superfluous 3-D scenes, it could have easily been done on the Super NES rather than the PlayStation. Not a terrible game, but not worth the time required to finish it.
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