Forever Kingdom

by Tommo

Product Features

• Real-time party of adventurers
• Interchangeable "point person" leads the way
• Special overkill and combo attacks
• Instant weapons and items upgrades

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005RH4H
• Item Weight: 5.8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: January 25, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,232 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

A young swordsman named Darius is joined by his childhood friend Ruyan, and a mysterious woman with incredible magical talent named Faeana on a quest to stop the mad wizard Darsul from destroying their homeland. The three heroes have been bound by the evil sorcerer's curse to suffer a shared fate - either they explore the ruins of an ancient civilization together to find a cure for their affliction, or they will all die.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

33 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A good and different RPG, June 22, 2002

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"vivi__thief" (NetherWorld) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Forever Kingdom (Video Game)

A lot of people think that Forever Kingdom is a "so-so game," or " terrible", but in reality its nothing of the 2. Its a perfect blend of action and RPG mixed into one awsome story. Forever Kingdom is really cool in its own way.

The battles are real-time fighting, where you can control one of three characters at a time, switching to another at anytime during the game is also possible.

You buy weapons for better attacks and attributes, armor for defense and resistance to thunder, fire, earth, and ice elements, legs, helmets and accesaries, to mix and match your strengths and weaknesses. A cool thing about the armor system is that when you buy and equip new items, your styles change, and you look different.

Each one of your 3 characters has a special magic attack called Palmira Actions. You can Trigger these anywhere if you have the proper amount of Palmira Points to exacute them. You can equip different accesaries to activate different magic. You can also perform combo attacks when you exacute all 3 palmira actions at the proper time on an enemy, to recieve palmira crystals, used to upgrade your weapons and other armor to make your character stronger. (since you don't level up in this game, it is essential that you recieve these crystals to grow more powerful) You can recieve 3 colored crystals, blue, yellow, and red, with red being the most useful. Use them wisely....!

The puzzles in this game are X-TREMELY DIFFICULT!! You will have many problems with correcting them. But pay attention to clues around your area, so you can complete the puzzles. Note that sometimes you will need to be equiped with a certain item to pass a puzzle.....!

The voice acting in this game is also a nice touch. The beautiful landscapes are sometimes breathtaking!

The unique gameplay is awsome, characters too, mix'n'match outfits and almost real enviornments, this game is a real cool pic for RPGamers around. Just watch out for the puzzles, but sides that, this game is a must buy!!

13 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars a pretty darn good game, March 17, 2002

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J. Desmet "Paraphrase" (Indigo, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Forever Kingdom (Video Game)

This game is really quite good, i wasnt expecting much i mean with it being the prequel to evergrace and all. but i couldnt be more wrong, this is 1,000,000X better than evergrace, its not like something thtas gonna bring the house down but if you liked evergrace get this game, if you didnt like evergrace, get this game even more!!!!.

Graphics-8: pretty great graphics when you look close, the rough edges and sharp textures that plagued evergrace are no more, rather anime-esque characters add Otaku value.

Sound-10: the sound in this game is absolutely great, i love the voice acting and music. combat sounds sound great with clashing swords and explosions.

Gameplay-9: really great gameplay, dressing up your character is one of the coolest things possible, you could change the color to your liking and you got fashion status. controling three characters is really cool, you can even use special moves of other chracters when your not even playing as them. the only glitch is Ruyan constantly says Feana's name way to many times, and Darius loves the word damn, every sentence, " Hey Ruyan, Damn, Damn Damn Damn!!! Faeana guess what, Damn Damn Damn Damn!!!!".

Control-10: chracters may be switched on the fly and dishing out punishment to enemies is a breeze. also, the ... power bar is gone from evergrace, now however your chracters share life which is a royal pain in the ....

one last word about it, well two words. you buy items from an elephant (oh my cool!!!!) and awsome fight scenes!!!

13 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars So-so action based RPG, May 27, 2002

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YingYang (chinatown) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Forever Kingdom (Video Game)

While you wouldn't know it from the name, Forever Kingdom is the sequel to the so-so PS2 launch game, Evergrace. Forever Kingdom does improve upon the original in several ways, but not enough! The improvements are a bit like taking a step forward, then a step back.

The biggest change is the new three-character party. You can switch between Darius, Ruyan, and Faena, which is cool. What isn't cool is those three characters share a single lifebar. When one gets hurt, the other two get hurt. This makes no sense whatsoever; you get all the aggravations of a single-character system with none of the benefits a party system should provide. What's the point?

To be fair, the special combo attacks all three characters can perform together are kinda cool, since they are very damaging. However, the execution is so poor as to make it a moot point. The environments aren't very detailed and the combat is quite simplistic. I expect better crafted environments for the PS2, this looks like a first-generation game. The "music" is the worst I've ever heard in a game. Imagine 3 different orchestras playing 3 different tunes simultaneously, that's what this "noise" sounds like!

For those who liked Evergrace, this sequel probably won't disappoint. But for the rest of us, there are better RPGs out there. The story is pretty good and the puzzles are challenging. It's just that the rest of the game is so uninspired, it's more annoying than fun. I didn't really want to finish this one. It's very hard for an RPG to make me feel that way. RPGs are my favorite genre.