Rogue Galaxy (PlayStation 2)

i gotta say, i'm usually critical on rpg's because i love them so much and have high expectations. i truly see level 5's qaulity in this work. this game makes me think of a hybrid between the game dark cloud2 and dragon quest 8. i'm probably about a fourth of the way through the game and i'm still excited about playing it. great work and i highly recommend this game to any rgp player. especially since its free roaming and no load times between battles, which I LOVE!!!

Is a pretty good game. If you have a chance to play do it. Yo can play with multiple characters in a base line history.A lot of hours of fun!

I liked the quickness of the delivery and the quality of the item. It arrived just as it is shown in their graphic. Perfect condition, thank you for your business, and I'll be back again to by from you.

This game is alot of fun, I relly enjoy the no load time between battles. This game has a good story and is pretty easy to follow.

This game was very well designed, it takes a good tack to instruct. It begins and establishes the main story, then walks through the playing instructions one at a time, and then allowing for the player to learn that skill or ability.

The dialogue is good, the graphics are excellent. The environments are designed to be fairly simple, which could be good or bad depending on your expectations and previous experience with this kind of game.

The only downside that I saw was that if you die the game resets and you have to load from your last save point. This isn't so bad if you learn early on to save often, but it can be frustrating.

While not quite as perfect (see Final Fantasy XII), it is a very good game to have.

When you feel your PS2 system is barely treading water in the oncoming tidal wave of Xbox 360s, Wiis and PS3s, it's a complete shock to find that a decent game for the PS2 has even been made in the last few YEARS. "Rogue Galaxy" isn't just decent, though, it's fantastic; well worth sparing your PS2 those withering glances and idly wondering how much you could sell it for. It's a highly story-driven game and quite cinematic, absolutely crammed with action that could make you wonder why you're grasping a game controller and not watching "Rogue Galaxy: the Movie." (As I just invented that movie, pick that controller back up and keep playing). It's also very easy on the eyes, and although you might not be able to see individual strands of hair blowing idly in the breeze, its beautiful graphics might make you remember why you love playing video games. The battles! A mix of classic RPG menu and Zelda-esque run-in-circles-and-bash-with-sword fighting includes you controlling any character you like in the party. And who doesn't love space pirates, anyway? Pirates! In space! This is definitely one of the REALLY GOOD PS2 games I decided to get while the getting was good. I highly recommend it to all similar-minded PS2 owners out there and even to Xbox-toting doubters. Great game!

Very in depth game with many subquests. Very easy to put in over 100 hours of play time. While the plot is very typical, the cut scenes and visuals are awesome. When you change weapons and clothing you see them change on the characters even most cut scenes.

Great Graphics, story plot and characters.
I was bit skeptic before I played this game but level3 company and Japan Studio did great job creating new RPG game. Hope this saga continues.
This is one of the best RPG game!

Good graphics, and good voice talent. Music, sounds, and story are mediocre. You won't find any surprises, and the story is full of cliches. The Level 5 developers are pretty good at making RPGs, and while this RPG doesn't seem like anything new, the gameplay for Rogue Galaxy improves upon, or takes the best elements of several RPGs and meshes them together well. Overall, a notch above the others.

Set in the theme of Treasure Planet and some Star Wars, a young man named Jaster, who dwelled in the desert world of Rosa was met by an unexpected chain of events that eventually led him into a new journey to find the long, lost planet of Eden. Alongside his companions, they travel planets in search of clues that will lead them to their objective.

Well that's the plot I summed up... but in terms of graphics, the game is EXPANSIVE; when I say expansive, I mean every dungeon are colossal. The graphics are beautifully done with cell shading technology like Dark Cloud 2, and there are also NO LOAD TIMES. When you enter buildings or doors, that means there'll be no load screens to hinder your journey(except traveling through different planets and loading or saving a data file).

In gameplay, the battle system is similar to SquareEnix's Radiata Stories and Level 5's past games. You have three characters max per battle and you can equip/un-equip weapons and armor during battle which is nice, and you can change chacters too, except Jaster.

Music is always memorable in Dark Cloud and you'll experience the same here, as you traverse in various surroundings.

Customization is straightforward like the other Dark Clouds, but this time, you have a tons more of weapon synthesis to make and depending on your customization of certain weapons, you can either end up with the ultimate or the second ultimate or the third.

So if you're a fan of Dark Cloud, why wait? Buy your copy and hope for a Rogue Galaxy II!

I like the fact that it was in good condition. It is easily noticeable that it was previously a rented game with the sticker removed from it. The bad is that it came in a CD sleeve instead of the original package. Overall a good buy but need more specific information next time before purchasing.

MASTERPIECE RPG?!? Are you crazy?!? STAR OCEAN 3 & FFX were better MASTERPIECES!
I have to disagree with lordkaos666.
Granted it was a nice game, one might want to buy.
It has ANNOYINGLY LONG WALKS. To get from one point to another, for the first time can take hours, The 2 towers took over 1hr and 30 mins each tower & the ending boss it took me 1hr 45 mins. just to reach the boss, talk about a long walk fighting all the way. The end boss, As Maria said in Star Ocean 3, "Now that is just too big" (or something like that). The graphics were very good as well as the bosses. There are a couple of places that you will want to spend 25-30 hours leveling up in order to 'survive', the one on one battles with tough bosses.

This is a great game, although, i expected a turn-based RPG, its more like a 3rd-Person action game, or some mix of the two. The characters are fun, the graphics are cool, and the game play is easy while still providing an enjoyable challange.

also, its about space pirates, and who doesn't dig that?

Final Fantasy XII, the disappointment of an era. Did you find yourself excited at the beginning, seeing the glorious Knight prince at the beginning of Square's latest drain of the franchise? Are you one of the classic RPG gamers who squealed with memories of Cecil? Were you disappointed by being stuck with Japaladdin in a far-too tacky vest that would make any homosexual comment an insult to gays everywhere?

Then Rogue Galaxy will bring your faith back into the game. As far as I'm concerned, this is the answer to Final Fantasy XII just as Beyonce is the answer to cancer. It's a wonderful game, and while the story may not be of epic proportions, it certainly has enough to keep a gamer interested. As a long time hater of all that is cel shaded, I can accurately say that this game has thrown out my hatred for the style. Not because of, "Blah blah blah the story makes the horrible graphics worth it" or any of that pseudo-elitist garbage, but because Level-5 did a damn good job with it. And her name is Lilika Rhyza.

The game can be explained as a simple mixture of basic elements, which make it just the interactive RPG that I've been looking for in quite a while. It has the great feel of the Kingdom Hearts battle system with more features and less nightmare-inducing Disney characters, there is an in-depth item synthesizing system, another item fusion system involving building a laboratory, and--as any Xenosaga fan can appreciate--the cutscenes are not RIDICULOUSLY long. The scenes are still a bit drawn out, but hey. Nothing wrong with a little eye candy.

The mockery of Final Fantasy XII came from the beginning of Rogue Galaxy. Just as in XII, you start out as an orphan of sorts in a desert city (in Rogue Galaxy's case, a desert planet) where an empire has taken control of the area, reducing the natives to that of glorified slaves. Oh, hey Star Wars. How are you? Rogue Galaxy sprint away from the horrors of FFXII by gameplay, slightly better music that the boring and annoying attempt at an orchestra, and of course not having Vaan strut around with his Optimus Prime abs and Ropponngi Gas Panic club hopping vest. Those who have been there know just what horrors I speak of. While this has yet to grab the grand position of epic RPG, I definitely see the potential if a little more effort was put into the story. On a whim, I'd love to see what Level-5 could do with the Grandeek anime OVA into a fully immersed story and game. Then again, that's another review.

I was hook right when I started this game for an hour or so and then after that my interest in it was just about gone. The story becomes so obvious after just playing for and hour or two. On top of that its short like 30 hours and thats it ( not including the ghost ship levels). But what made this game worth playing till the end? the battles and thats about it. There are other "cool" things to do in the game but there not really that great or really worth it.