Final Fantasy Legend III

This game belong to the SaGa series and  actually starts very good with the common rpg elements: exploration, world map, random encounters, turn based battles, towns, equipment, heroes, but lacking soul.

The enviroment doesn't look bad either, but the battle screen is very poor, with zero detail, just the menus and sprites.

Combat is the usual turn based system, challenging enough but it gets boring and repetitive where the lack of development and dungeon design helps to get tired too.

Customization is a bit weird, aside from the usual equipment  we can use some of the items dropped from the enemies to evolve the characters class, this isn't a bad idea but it is implemented in a confusing way where without a guide I was completely lost.

The story is okay, tries to be epic but fails because of the bad pacing, the player will spend too much time wandering around and defeating the monsters rather than following the story or dialogs.

So after a few hours the game has nothing else to show and starts getting very heavy. If this game had less grinding and repetitiveness and a good story development the game would have been way more fun to play.

Did I like it? No.
I think you will like it if you:
- Desperate to play old jrpgs?

- I rate my experience with a 3.5 out of 10.

Pokemon Part 1

My first and best experience with pokemon, I bought it when no one in my country knew about it (myself included) and it really surprised me though my first impression was bad because, at first it reminded me a lot to Final Fantasy Legend III, a game I bored to death, I guess it is by the looks and that both are rpgs.

But after this, when I got used to the gameplay it was a blast. The fact of capturing pokemon to make a party like any other rpg but way more customizable because there are 150 different pokemon, with different weaknesses, strenghts, skills, status growth and many other things that give this game a high strategic component.

The trainer can build a party of 6 pokemon and combats are fighted 1vs1 with a turn based system where the trainer only gives orders and uses items to the pokemon. The multiplayer combats are awesome and very competitive and all the trading and collecting pokemons is very addictive.

The story is also unusual, this time we're not the hero of light up to save the world with its infinite justice, no this time we're just another amateur pokemon trainer who wants to be the best. Graphically looks okay with many cool character designs, music has great tunes.

Did I like it? Yes!
I think you will like it if you:
- Like rpgs

I rate my experience with a 9.5 out of 10.

Final Fantasy Adventure

A game that can remind to the (old) Zelda games on its looks and also to the Enix action rpg on its gameplay.

But in reallity this is the first game of the Seiken Densetsu saga, saga where Secret of Mana belongs, so we may find many gameplay and plot features that will be used on the later games.

The gameplay is real time action, focused on dungeons which contain the usual puzzles, enemies and treasures. Also there's some of exploration to do around too, the world map is big enough to contain a few towns and places to look. As curiosity, the player can kill the npcs in town... a thing we are only alowed to do on some western rpgs now (and probably with the same repercusion).

On the customization side we find the usual experience levels, parameters and equipment, etc. No complains here, it's a game from 1991.

The story is the usual Hero of light vs Dark plus saving the girl, at least the story involving the Mana Tree is apreciated as a Secret of Mana fan. Graphically looks nice for a Game boy, I can't remember about music quality, sorry!

Did I like it? Yes
I think you will like it if you:
- Are desperate to play old school jrpg

I rate my experience with a 7 out of 10.