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Does Vagrant Story count as a JRPG? Or is it just an RPG with Japanese developers?
After dropping Final Fantasy X a while ago (I regrettably played for like 30 hours or something, up until the Seymour wedding part in wherever that was, just wasn't having fun with how grindy it felt and how the choices some characters were making in the cutscenes felt wildly out of character), I decided to pick up Vagrant Story. I know nothing about the game.
The opening cinematic was very impressive considering the time, very clever way of faking rim lighting. The facial animations are also quite good for a sub 200 meg game. I played about 15 minutes and it seems interesting enough, we will see how long I continue to play it. The rotatable perspective seems like it could be easily frustrating for platforming, so I hope that the platforming in this game doesn't get too technical.
My singular complain so far is I think lack of voice acting really hurts this game. It feels like they probably didn't have voice acting in the budget and spent whatever extra on art direction, but if they had been given extra for full voice acting I think the game would have been vastly more captivating.