Feb 23 2009
First RPG of 2009 (for me) Coming in March
Avalon Code intrigues me for one reason: I won’t be saving the world, I’ll be rewriting it. I’ve been saving the world too much lately. It’s time to just accept that it’s going to be destroyed in one form or another and rebuild.
January’s Nintendo Power originally turned me on to the game, but then I read Amazon.com’s description (which by far beats both NinPow’s and Nintendo.com’s):
- “Plot changes based on the player’s choice of either a male or female lead character, who can regardless make enemies, alienate friends, and even fall in love.
- Unique item creation and alteration system through the mysterious Book of Prophecy.
- Developed in conjunction with top teams associated with Final Fantasy III, Final Fantasy IV and the Harvest Moon and Rune Factory series.
- Highly detailed characters, landscapes and monsters fuel the addictive nature of capturing different monsters to complete your book’s collection.
- An immersive storyline in which players can lose themselves at a moments notice.”
From the first bullet point, I already have a reason to play the game more than once. It’s very rare (for me) to want to play an RPG more than once, no matter how much I liked it, because of the amount of time the typical RPG takes. Case in point, Kingdom Hearts. It’s one of my favorites, if not my absolute favorite, and I haven’t had the strength, time, or desire to play it again. It’s going to be the exact same story; the only reason I would have to play it again would be to try to defeat all of the extra bosses, even though they all made me chuck my controller at walls in rage. I think the only one I’ve tried to play more than once was Fable 2, and that’s because I played the first round as a goody-goody and I’m ready to be evil.
Your character is supposed to decide what will go in the next world by recording it in the Book of Prophecy, so I wonder if that’s another way to change how the plot goes. So are there a plethora of worlds I can possibly create? So intrigued!
I’m supposed to finish Phantom Hourglass first, as that is part of my New Year’s Resolutions, but I don’t know if I can resist buying a handheld RPG. I may be on a plane a lot this year, and the DS is a perfect companion.
