{first look)
So things are going pretty well.As I am playing a single player game i will detail what its about.In the single player mode you can only control one character at a time which brings about some problems and heres why.
The game consists of your party know as the crystal caravan for your village,trying to find some magical liquid to power the crystal for your town.The world is covered in a poison type myst as it were,which will kill any of the poeple who inhabit the world.These species are.Yukes,Clavat,Lilties and Selkies.The race you choose will effect the type of items you can use as mostly each race has their own set of armor and accessories,(aswell as items and armor everyone can use. The items you can equip have to be made by bringing materials to a blacksmith to forge into new weapons and armor.Which is interesting and brings me to my second point and where the problem lies.
The next step after chooseing your characters race is to choose a family trait.An interesting gameplay mechanism for sure.As your characters family will then become the profession's/trait's represenative for your home town. So if you are playing a single player game you may want to fill in a few of the families like merchant,alchemist,tailor and blacksmith there are quite a few family "jobs" to choose from and 8 character/family slots you can fill. now the problem comes from playing now.Since the game is annoyingly only playable in mulitplayer on the nintendo gameboy advance and the gameboy advance connector cord for the game cube, you will have to manually play each character you want to advance by yourself.Aswell once you beat a level or go ahead it gets harder with each level so bringing a character in in the middle of the game or not leveling each one at each level will render them hopeless. Now i recently found out how the shop system works for the family shops in your home town.and it looks like you can just play as one character.Bleh boring.At any rate what im doing is i have 4 characters.Whom I alternate with beating levels then bringing one in to do the level over again before moving on.Its working out pretty well.And i am getting to see alot of the different stuff for each race(i chopse a character from each race).
The game runs on a yearly system where as after geathering the third drop of liquid for your crystal yu go back to your home town and the town is safe for one more year.There are random events that are triggered on the road as you travel,which are really cool as uyou write down everything that happens in your journal and it all gets retold with more detail at the end of the year.
Expect more soon as i play through it.!
