Magna Carta: Tears of Blood

The Good
Had to get this game since there weren't many RPG's selling at my local playstation retailer. Obviously RPG sales weren't doing very well, and after play this game for several agonizing hours, I can tell why.

Not much very good about the game, but I do identify the vision they were trying to create, though in practice, it was somewhat of a disaster.

The few good "visions" about the game refer to a concept in the game that regulates the dominance of certain magic types in a certain area. There are many fields of magic in the game: fire, water, earth, etc. Each area has a governing magic type, which you can change so that your character, if focusing on a certain element, gets an additional bonus or otherwise receive a negative bonus if the element is opposite of his/her speciality. Nice concept, but the gloomy graphics, mediocre interface and not-so-friendly gameplay made the positives in this game somewhat unbearable.

The Bad
Yet another Final Fantasy copycat the simulates everything but the good stuff about the game. There's been a lot of that going around lately.

Yikes, this game has possibly the WORST combat system ever compared to RPG's in this day an age. Just to think I recently changed loyalties from the PC to the PS2 and have to deal with this kind of junk. The combat system though "as a concept interesting" in practice is yet another disaster. Combat is real-time, but you have to hit the enemy 3 times at the right time-length or else you will miss. What's irritating about this, is that it's somewhat fast so there's a good possibility you will miss unless you totally focus. There's also a "recharge rate" for your next attack, so if you either miss or attack, you have to wait sometime before your next available action. The fact that the enemy never misses is also irritating, plus the fact that even though you have more than one ally in combat, doesn't mean you have more actions to carryout.

That combat sequence itself ultimately killed any fun out of the game, in addition to many other devastating features about the game. The graphics are somewhat gloomy and unfriendly. The hero, who I thought was kinda cute, turned out to be a man, now that really killed something in me...especially that this dude wears sexy women's clothing, the developer's who created this game, are either sick in the brain or have serious sexuality problems. The girls all have enormous breasts and minimal wear also means that the developers have yet to find adulthood and a miracle to actually get a girlfriend.

The Bottom Line
There bad games that are entertaining to a certain extent, there are games that are bad and good depending on the person. I believe this is a game that is bad in every possible element. Don't even breath near this one.