Vagrant Story - PlayStation

Very Underrated.

“Vagrant Story is one of the most underrated games and at the same time one of the best games made it in years.

Why not everybody like it?, one of the reasons is having a battle system very different from other games, it´s not easy to swallow at first but after a while you get use to it.

The first thing to make clear is that VS is not fully a RPG, is more a hybrid between various genres, there´s some RPG elements but there´s also action and you can explore like in a plataform game. Saying that don´t expect to visit towns and talk to people like in a RPG.

Yasumi Matsuno, creator of this game and another gem from Square, Final Fantasy Tactics, did a marvelous job along with his staff, including the composer of the music Hitoshi Sakimoto.

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Games I've never managed to beat (so far) (11 games items)

"Vagrant Story is one of the best games on PS1, without a doubt. When I was a kid I always wanted it, but by then Squaresoft was already a household name and all their games were very expensive. I tried it out later and was very impressed with it's design, but somewhere along the way I got stuck and my laptop broke or something. I really should try it out again."

IGN's Top 100 RPGS of All Time (2017) (100 games items)

" For all intents and purposes, Vagrant Story should not have been a PlayStation game. The sheer volume of systems interacting with each other and the top notch graphics should have crippled the Sony's little system. But somehow, we got to experience Yasumi Matsuno's dungeon crawling masterpiece mere months before the PS2's US launch. You play as Ashley Riot, a member of the elite "Riskbreaker" unit of the Valendia Knights of Peace. Dropped into a haunted city in the middle of a civil war, you m"

PS1 RPGs (171 games items)

"Made by Yasumi Matsuno, the mind behind games such as Final Fantasy Tactics and, later, Final Fantasy XII, and taking place in Ivalice, the same world of those games. This is a very good, underrated game with unique gameplay and fantastic story."

JRPGs of Interest (68 games items)

"Probably the best action RPG on PS1 along with Parasite Eve. Even though they're so different. These might be the best fully polygonal graphics on the system. The story is super good, as are the battle and customization systems. "