As forgettable as they were, they still wound up being more useful that any demon I captured for later use. These characters have no backstory, most have no reason for even being there and existed solely to fill a slot as you deploy your team on to the next battlefield. Your party will consist of the 3 or 4 characters shown on the chapter select screen but you can recruit pre-selected mercenaries by talking to them in the world’s HUB. This is the same concept that got old really quick with Fire Emblem and thankfully you can turn this feature off in the options menu.
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At any time during your turn you can hit the triangle button, highlight a target and see exactly what their weakness is so you know how to approach the battle before you even move your first character, removing any sense of danger, tactical approach, trial and error or fun from the game.īut wait, there’s more! Each time an action is performed in battle, you’re greeted to a 5 second loading screen that segues from the 2D sprite battle grid to a 3D cut-scene that can last all of two seconds.
You have melee, casters and archers that all deal a specific type of damage although there aren’t that many types to begin with. It’s a very simple design that fails to break any new ground or take any risks. but I’ll get in to that a little later in the review. Eternal Poison, surprisingly, is actually quite easy unless you get burdened by underleveled mercenaries that join your party. Take the Shin Megami Tensei series, Tactics Ogre & Kartia for example. Generally when I see the name Atlus on an RPG (even though they’re just the publisher), I expect it to be punishingly difficult, yet enjoyable. WTFM8? Characters communicate through these still-framed dialogue boxes between battles. Now before you question my argument, as there are tons of JRPG characters of questionable sex (I’m looking at you Ion from Tales of the Abyss), this character has breasts and a female voice yet the North American voice actors still refer to her as a man for the remainder of the campaign. The translation team must have messed up somewhere along the way as well because an obvious female character in my party was constantly referred to as “he” or “him”. The story of Eternal Poison unfolds between battles with 2D drawn character models, text boxes and your typical over-dramatic spoken dialogue, which I would have been fine with had the plot been even remotely interesting.
Unfortunately, it ended up being a very bare bones adventure with an uninteresting storyline, simplistic combat and a very lackluster character customization feature that only allows you to pick one of two specializations once you reach a certain level (just like the original Vandal Hearts for PSone). Outside of the Disgaea & Fire Emblem series, there really isn’t a constant flow of SRPGs hitting the market, so after finding a copy of Eternal Poison I was eager to give it a shot. Generally, I like the SRPG genre, mainly for their intricate combat systems that seem to differ from game to game & I also really enjoy their deep job class customization.
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Click for a full sized image to get a better idea of how good the art is. EP has a distinct gothic lolita art style that I really like, but unfortunately that’s about all I enjoyed. EP is played through three different perspectives of five separate parties which are selectable after completing the prologue tutorial and each will last about 10-12 hours. I catch and raise Pokemon to fight them, not to put them in a blender in hopes for gold or a new hat. Thankfully you can destroy captured demons for gold, items or new spells, but that doesn’t forgive the entire niche of the game from being obsolete. Unfortunately this only sounds good on paper once you realize that the demons are generally weaker than other mercs-for-hire scattered across the HUB world. Originally titled Poison Pink in Japan, EP is presented as some sort of gothic Pokemon experience that allows you to capture and use demons to fight by your side. Take this review however you will, but keep in mind that it’s based on the portion of the game that I could stomach before throwing in the towel for good.Įternal Poison is a strategy RPG developed by Flight Plan and released by Atlus for the Playstation 2 back in 2008. Now I don’t normally feel inclined to review a game unless I’ve beaten it completely, but today I’m going to make an exception because, in this case, I just couldn’t bring myself to do so. Played for: About 20 hours suffering through the available campaigns before calling it quits.
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