FABIO wrote:

Damocles wrote:

Wouldn't know; never played it. Kinda like Legend of the Dragoon, I was warned off.

GIA used to be my complete source for game reviews. Whatever they thought of a game, I'd just have to take the exact opposite to get an accurate picture every time. Some of the stuff they gave 5 out of 5's for were ridiculous, I think I hated every single game they gave that to. EVERY single Square fantasy RPG got 5/5. FF8? Chrono Cross? Vagrant Story? To me a perfect score says "MUST BUY", at least if you're a fan of the genre. You can argue that you liked any of those games, but must buys they were not. I think the only review of theirs I ever agreed with was Parasite Eve 2, god that was mediocre.


I still love their amazingly inaccurate review of Star Ocean 2, calling it a phenominal looking game with no gameplay to back it up, when the exact opposite was true. I saw better 2D models on the SNES. Combat nothing more than smashing the X button? Attack magic was worthless? Did that person even play the game?