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Riviera: The Promised Land (Nintendo Game Boy Advance, 2005)
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I bought this game because it received a lot of good reviews, so I decided to give it a try. For a Gameboy Advance game the graphics are very nice, and the character designs are cute. The gameplay is what keeps me from rating it as excellent. First of all, you don't get to freely roam around like other RPGs, and pretty much everything else you do other than walking requires you to spend points that you get through winning battles. The faster win, the more points. Now I'm one of those people who MUST look at everything, but most of the time I don't have enough points to do so, so I have to constantly reset the game so I don't waste points on things that are not important (ie, simply checking the environment without gaining items or points). It's not a bad game, it just doesn't really stand out among the games I have in my collection.Read full review
Riviera: The Promised Land is a turn-based RPG game with some elements from strategy and dating sim games and a unprecedented gameplay. The player takes the role of Ein, who must battle against demons as well as antagonistic Grim Angels to seal away the four Accursed. He is accompanied by four heroines — Fia, Lina, Serene and Cierra. By supporting these characters through decisions made in the game (for example in conversations) the player can achieve multile endings. Nontypical the player controlls Ein indirect through triggers in two modes (Move and Look). In Move Mode, the player may advance to previous screens. Each area is made up of several screens, each screen having triggers to explore and potentially battles to engage in. In Look Mode, the player may press directional buttons corresponding to triggers shown on the screen. Unlike in Move Mode, many triggers will not appear until certain events have taken place and many triggers require Trigger Points earned in battle. For every battle the player choose only three combatants, a position scheme and only four items, which can be used in battle. For every item each character has a different attack. Once all the preparations are made, battle begins. Turn order is decided by a count down. When a player character gets to go, they may select an item to attack. If the character is well trained with the item and the OverDrive Gauge is sufficiently filled, a power skill is available. The game has one of the best art design and grafic i've ever seen in a GBA game. At last: Riviera kept a place at the number 1 spot on 1UP.com's top 10 GBA games list throughout the majority of summer 2005. So I think this tells its own tale. Here is a link to a gameplayvideo of Riviera. Maybe you want to see the charm of the game with your own eyes: http://youtube.com/watch?v=d9_3xVx4-9Y At last: English is not my native language. So please forgive me for the mistakes. :-)Read full review
I can’t get into the game more than five minutes without getting mad about the cat rose that is instructing you on basic common sense, like not to pick your nose when good looking girls are around. Well really just about nonstop the beginning dialogue and introduction things are not really fun or interesting. They remind me of something that I could have written when I was in the fourth grade and the teacher gave me a C on it because it wasn’t that creative. And that is what the game feels like, nice graphics and presentation, but not a story that gets me going. The review for the PSP version of the game was a lot more accurate to what I think the Gameboy advance one should have got. I don’t really go for RPG’s that much, this one really could not hook me in. I would have written better dialogue, or a cat that was a little more cool and funny, more like Ren and Stimpy and less like temp agency voice mail person. There are a few good Role playing games that get me hooked in and this is not one of them what a shoot. And the names of the girls, your party concubines are not creative either, they are not as powerful as your main character and it is a waste to try and pick which ones you want.Read full review
While it is very original as far as gameplay is concerned, this game can be very frustrating and repetitive from the first few minutes. The plot isn't very intriguing, and not enough to keep you wanting to play after you get mad at the random "press this combination of buttons in 5 seconds!" or "hit the button at the right time!" encounters. Things like that frustrate your average RPG fan, and everyone I loaned this game to had the same opinions. It's not bad, but it's not good. As far as Atlus games go, it's pretty bad though.
i played this game a few years back. one of my friends wanted to play a game i had and he told me he would lend me his in return. gameplay is nice, good music, has cg pics and stuff. but i lost it!! T.T thats y i got another one lol.
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