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Agarest: Generations of War Zero

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Agarest: Generations of War Zero
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From the void, the gods of darkness and light created Agarest, a most perfect and divine world. As the generations passed, paradise sadly fell to the ravages of time. War darkened the skies and Agarest soon became a torturous hell as the gods divided and immense armies clashed, desecrating the once...
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3.3/5
Great !
50 hours of fighting plus 30 hours of dialog equals Agarest: Generations of War Zero. If you are a fan of JRPGs and round-based strategy-RPGs, you will surely enjoy this game, the character designs are amazing, on a technical level Agarest Zero doesn't fair to badly, the graphics, although simple, are actually rather nice with high res textures and art aswell as adorable sprites, the music is great and very fitting and up beat and the loading times rather short. One last note there is no English dub, subs yes but no voice over, but you do get an excellent cast of Japanese voice actresses/actors to listen to. Long story short, this is a fantastic game despite obvious shortcomings and its well worth buying just to experience a genius battle system and to really challenge yourself. A Zero only has 2 generations, which for those of you new to Agarest (like I was) is a system where you choose one of 3 girls to have a child with (it doesn't show you how ofcourse) and that child becomes you're new main character for the second part of the game, the girl you pick affects various things from you're new characters appearance to his stats (the more the girl likes you the better they'll be) You can excecute combos by placing party members in certain possitions in relation to each other, and you can further add to the skill element by selecting a map that suits you. For example you can choose a map with areas that increase you're attack power, especially usefull against enemies reliant on magic, you also have an SP guage which adds even MORE depth to the battle system allowing you to use extra powerfull attacks if that party member has taken a lot of hits (not damage but sperate hits) or has defeated some foes. For GOG release and for enjoy able game I rate this 8/10 ^^
Better than first but
Better than the first one but adds a few more interesting mechanics but still an aweful lot of grinding involved. And Zero suffers from some of the same flaws unfortunately as the first one which is the repetition factor of enemies and the lack of variety in them. Still there are not too many JSRPG on PC platform So if you are a lover of SRPGs this might be worth getting especially at its introduction offer.
a lot worse than expected
I am not a frequent player of Japanese RPGs but I do like them from time to time. This one is definitely the worst I've played. I liked the game for several hours but after that it started to become more and more annoying. - The game is far from being complex. You could say it doesn't get any simpler than this. You read dialogues without making any decisions and you fight the very same fights over and over again. Yet there is so much I didn't know about for hours and probably still don't. For example abbreviations are not explained at all. I had to find them in a forum where people were guessing what they could mean. - The fights are very simple, always the same, and yet you could probably write an essay about which monster can be defeated best by which combination of the thousands of unnecessary techniques. So of course you could fight the battles using great strategies but you have to invest hours into research just to give this game some form of meaning. - The fights can only be won because of a very limited AI. The most important strategy in this game is to exploit the gaps in the AI and hope that the AI does not, by chance, make a random move and wipe you party out. - In case your party was wiped out you will probably want to reload. This usually happens during major battles. Preceding major battles are major dialogues which can last for minutes. You can fast forward them but it will still take a minute or two because characters moving still move at the same pace. Diaglogue cannot be skipped. - Choosing a mate seems to be one of the goals. It is probably a Japanese thing that all the candidates are girls who are/act like they are between 8 and 12 years old. So my guess is you either have to be younger than 15 yourself if you can listen to them without gagging or you...are into this. The game is better than one or maybe two stars. The first few hours are ok if you like fights and improving your partystats. But after that this game just becomes annoying + boring
not recommendable
Agarest: Generations of War Zero has some different flaws. One of the bigger flaws is one of the core-features of the game - the Extended Areas-Feature. Extended Areas means that you can link Character-Attacks with each other. The problem with that feature is that the linked characters randomly and uncontrollable jump from one Map Panel to a nearly enemy panel to attack the enemy. There's no real control behind it and that has certain disadvantages: fragile chars like magicians waste an AoE-Cast which normally could hit 3-4 targets at once on a single target cause the placement of the AoE-Cast is random, too. This way the fragile magicians waste lots of MP and are standing wide open for counter attacks - AND the enemy uses Extended Area-Links as well. Also there exists a lot of enemies who have passive skills which activate when they've only a certain amount of HP left. From that on they dodge any kind of physical attack with a 100% chance - which also makes the Battles quite long-winded and which also questions the extended-area system, cause the outcome by random-placing casts and chars isn't very reliable. So, all in all the Extended Areas have more disadvantages than real advantages: it's easier to lose a char like a magician permanently by Extended-Areas counter than to gain anything with it. Other features have their flaws. too. For example at the main char creation there exists at least one Tarot Card-Combination which can crashes the game at the first tutorial fight. Also the "Generation-Concept" is something you can love or hate, cause it includes that you permanently lose your own created main char and exchange it for a 2nd or 3rd generation main char later on, which is interesting, cause no one warns you earlier on, that this would happen. BUT HEY! *SPOILER* ;-)
A good sequel
This is, again, an excellent port of a PS3 game. Much like the first this strategy JRPG is more story driven than gameplay driven, so if you enjoyed the first this is a no-brainer. It has fewer generations than the first, which is unfortunate, but is still a hefty amount of content.
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2014, Idea Factory, ...
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Description
From the void, the gods of darkness and light created Agarest, a most perfect and divine world. As the generations passed, paradise sadly fell to the ravages of time. War darkened the skies and Agarest soon became a torturous hell as the gods divided and immense armies clashed, desecrating the once beautiful land…
After many years with the war in deadlock, Sieghart, a young officer loyal to the armies of light, passes through the scarred mountains on a perilous mission. There, he meets a strange girl and unknowingly changes the fate of the world forever.

Agarest: Generations of War ZERO contains many of the unique features found in the first release of the series such as Extended Areas allowing you to chain attacks together in huge combos, the Blacksmith’s Guild for experimentation in crafting of items and weapons and of course, the Soul Breed System where you must carefully choose your bride as this decision will directly affect following generations.

In addition to these existing game features, the following new features have been added:
The new Vacation Days allow you to get to know your party members better and unlock bonus items and locations by visiting various places in the towns. Also, as you build your relationship with the rest of your party you will unlock new costumes for them to wear.

Character portraits displayed during conversations have been vastly improved with the implementation of Motion Portrait. This brings characters to life with subtle animations really helping to enhance the stunning artwork.

With various other changes such as improved graphics and a brand new Card Skill System to allow you to customise your starting character, this is a prequel you won’t want to miss.
  • Watch the story unfold as you battle the enemy hordes in over 80hrs in a compelling and innovative turn based-based combat system
  • Choose the path of Darkness or Light through a truly epic story, spanning multiple generations
  • Build your ultimate army of warriors and master Extra Skills, Special Arts and Over Kills to defeat colossal enemies!
  • Use the all new Card Skill System to create your hero’s unique persona.
  • Featuring stunning new and beautifully animated character portraits.
  • The Soul Breed System returns! Unite with your chosen bride to shape the fate of the next generation of heroes

Agarest: Generations of War Zero ©2013 COMPILE HEART / RED. Published under license by Ghostlight LTD.

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1 GB RAM
Graphics:
DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card with 64Mb RAM and support for v3 shaders
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5 GB available space
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Release date:
April 17, 2014
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Hoàng Đế

Games: 57 Reviews: 6

Great !

April 21, 2015

50 hours of fighting plus 30 hours of dialog equals Agarest: Generations of War Zero. If you are a fan of JRPGs and round-based strategy-RPGs, you will surely enjoy this game, the character designs are amazing, on a technical level Agarest Zero doesn't fair to badly, the graphics, although simple, are actually rather nice with high res textures and art aswell as adorable sprites, the music is great and very fitting and up beat and the loading times rather short. One last note there is no English dub, subs yes but no voice over, but you do get an excellent cast of Japanese voice actresses/actors to listen to. Long story short, this is a fantastic game despite obvious shortcomings and its well worth buying just to experience a genius battle system and to really challenge yourself. A Zero

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DysonFrost

Games: 62 Reviews: 4

Better than first but

April 21, 2015

Better than the first one but adds a few more interesting mechanics but still an aweful lot of grinding involved. And Zero suffers from some of the same flaws unfortunately as the first one which is the repetition factor of enemies and the lack of variety in them. Still there are not too many JSRPG on PC platform So if you are a lover of SRPGs this might be worth getting especially at its introduction offer.

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jush59

Games: 182 Reviews: 6

a lot worse than expected

May 14, 2015 Verified owner

I am not a frequent player of Japanese RPGs but I do like them from time to time. This one is definitely the worst I've played. I liked the game for several hours but after that it started to become more and more annoying. - The game is far from being complex. You could say it doesn't get any simpler than this. You read dialogues without making any decisions and you fight the very same fights over and over again. Yet there is so much I didn't know about for hours and probably still don't. For example abbreviations are not explained at all. I had to find them in a forum where people were guessing what they could mean. - The fights are very simple, always the same, and yet you could probably write an essay about which monster can be defeated best by which combination of the thousands of

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ErzPaladin

Games: 77 Reviews: 7

not recommendable

February 23, 2016

Agarest: Generations of War Zero has some different flaws. One of the bigger flaws is one of the core-features of the game - the Extended Areas-Feature. Extended Areas means that you can link Character-Attacks with each other. The problem with that feature is that the linked characters randomly and uncontrollable jump from one Map Panel to a nearly enemy panel to attack the enemy. There's no real control behind it and that has certain disadvantages: fragile chars like magicians waste an AoE-Cast which normally could hit 3-4 targets at once on a single target cause the placement of the AoE-Cast is random, too. This way the fragile magicians waste lots of MP and are standing wide open for counter attacks - AND the enemy uses Extended Area-Links as well. Also there exists a lot of enemies

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vorpalbunny74

Games: 781 Reviews: 5

A good sequel

December 29, 2015 Verified owner

This is, again, an excellent port of a PS3 game. Much like the first this strategy JRPG is more story driven than gameplay driven, so if you enjoyed the first this is a no-brainer. It has fewer generations than the first, which is unfortunate, but is still a hefty amount of content.

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