Hoshigami Remix: Ruining Blue Earth

by Aksys

Product Features

• Experience the world of Hoshigami like never before!: Hoshigami Remix also features a brand new character, missions, music, character art, as well as a new localization.
• Novice tactician or battle-hardened veteran?: Select from three different difficulty levels and tailor the game to your skill.
• Immerse yourself in battle with an enhanced user interface: Issue strategic commands quickly and efficiently with a revised, streamlined interface and optional stylus control!
• Over 50 hours of gameplay with branching paths and multiple endings!: Are you skilled enough to get the one and only true ending?
• Trade special items with your friends: Be a power player and jumpstart your friends’ games with super weapons, armor and spells!

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000NZV48Y
• Product Dimensions: 5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: June 20, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,887 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #45 in Video Games > Nintendo DS > Strategy
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

On the floating continent of Mardias, a war has broken out between the Kingdoms of Valaim and Nightweld that threatens to upset the balance of power in the land. Our hero, Fazz, and his ragtag band of mercenaries are thrust into the fight and are hired to protect one of the Ruins of Ixia from the Valaimian forces. Unbeknownst to them, an insidious evil begins to rise from the shadows... Will Fazz be able to stop it before Mardias is destroyed?

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Ponderous Pacing meets Poor Interface, May 16, 2008

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Jason C. Ditz (Saginaw, MI United States) - See all my reviews

= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Hoshigami Remix: Ruining Blue Earth (Video Game)

At its core, Hoshigami is a remarkably deep turn-based strategy game with an interesting story and some beautifully designed characters. So what's the problem?

For one, the pacing is dreadful... the game moves at a snail's pace from start to finish, the battles take forever, leveling is slow, and in many cases I found myself deliberately avoiding side-story missions (which I generally love in SRPGs) simply to avoid another long, pointless fight.

The interface, likewise, is ill-suited to the DS. They tried their best to shoehorn a complex menu system onto a portable touch screen, and should be commended for it, but in the end its just too complicated to bother with.

If you're really thirsty for a turn-based experience and have played everything else to completion, i'd recommend this, if only because playing it to completion is going to take you forever. On the other hand if you're kind of on the fence about the genre, don't make this your first experience.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Below Average, January 27, 2008

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M. Diaz "Smoke" (St. Amant, LA United States) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Hoshigami Remix: Ruining Blue Earth (Video Game)

I have played many strategy/RPG games. I saw this one for the DS and picked it up despite the mixed reviews I have seen for it. It has received a large number of negative reviews, but I thought i could "find the good" in it and learn to love it. I was wrong. If there is one good thing I can say about Hoshigami is that it tries to be innovative and different. The magic system is something you probably have never seen before, unless you played the orignal Hoshigami on the PSone. This doesn't make the magic system a good thing though. How the game lets you customize the magic system is quite interesting ,but the game fails at helping you understand it. I got annoyed with the fact that I simply did not know how to work the magic system. The in game tutorials DO NOT help you with this and neither does the instruction manual.

The magic system was not the only problem. There are no real classes in this game. Anyone can use magic and anyone can use any weapon. You may be thinking well so it let's you customize each charcter the way you want, that's a good thing right? Well it's not exactly what you think. You can't decide what stats you raise all you decide on is what weapon and what magic they use. I hate it, with a passion. You are better off buying Luminous Arc , Final fantasy Tactics Advance and the soon coming Final fantasy tactics advance 2. Also check out Ogre Battle for the GBA. There are just so many better strategy/RPG's out there. This one is a waste of your money.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars good battle system, but slow., May 23, 2011

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ser - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Hoshigami Remix: Ruining Blue Earth (Video Game)

I played many RPGs including old ones. I think the battle system is pretty good, but enemies actually play the game like the player which makes entire battle very slow when sometimes there are about 20 enemies. I had fun and like the game overall, but the waiting time is long and sometimes I had to level up characters even in easy mode.
I still think it was the best RPG game I played in DS so far, I find the system similar to PC game final tactics series.