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Grandia HD Collection - Still A Bloody Good Game (Jimpressions)

🕑 Added 2019-08-20 14:21:21 +0000 UTC

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Trevor Bond

I have genuinely never played Grandia, any of them. So this is pretty interesting from the outside!

I think Jim would be really great uttering the wonderfully awful dubbed line from General Baal: "Die you worms! Together in this burning ship! Aaaaahaaahaaahaaahaaa!" Just a little dream I now have.

Reinbach

I remember when this game came out I was obsessed with it, but I couldn't afford to buy it. So I just kept mowing lawns to be able to rent it once a week from the video store. For all the lawns I mowed I could have bought the damn thing twice if I'd been patient, but I was having so much fun with it I couldn't wait that long.

Hansbert Emmer

I've seen many more people talk about the first Grandia. Which makes more sense, since the second one was already widely available on all plattforms and I don't think they even changed it a lot for the collection. Grandia 1 on the other hand has seen a lot more changes - mostly good ones even - and hasn't ever been playable on PC outside of emulators I think. Reviews will likely focus more on it once the (blissfully short) switch exclusivity period ends. Regarding the combat system: a lot of games have copied PARTS of it, but I can't think of one that copied the brilliant skill progression system, which seems downright criminal to me. I hope other commenters will point out how wrong I am on that last part so I can discover new (or old) games to play.