[quote name='sarausagi']Grandia III could have been, COULD HAVE BEEN, one of the best RPG's this generation.
Except, you'll totally hate it at the end, if you actually loved it the whole way through.
1. Two of the best characters leave the party and never come back, NOT EVEN FOR THE FINAL BATTLE, THEY'RE NOT EVEN IN THE ENDING CG. Mind you, they were good in battle, and really made the story and character dynamics interesting. Need I repeat again, THEY NEVER COME BACK.
2. Relationship between two main characters is very sweet, through the beginning of the game it progresses very naturally, and if you enjoy the light hearted innocence of the Grandia series, it will make you smile. However, it completely loses its pace near the end of the first disc, and it honestly seems more than half the time the girl would rather
her brother than her potential boyfriend
3. The ending is less than 3 minutes long, villains disappear without you even fighting them, a major character "dies" but you don't really know if he "dies" or not, there's not even a proper ending song [it's just the second half of the intro, an orchestral arrange or just the main grandia theme would have been enough]
4. The game feels incomplete, TONS OF WORLD MAP AREAS YOU CAN NOT EXPLORE, no side quests, no optional bosses, and subplots you can't follow up on [BIANCA] even if you really want to. The radio chats would have been nice if you could actually get into missions through them. The flying is actually fun but it serves no point other than traveling the world map.
Grandia III could have been twenty hours longer, added a few story areas, put in some side quests, and actually fleshed out the relationships a little more, and it could have been great.
I enjoyed it way more than 2, but still not even half as much as 1. Lately it seems though, I love Grandia games, and they always disappoint me. If you like the battle system and can live knowing this game is incomplete and could have been something, then it's WORTH the $30.
By the way, the game is widescreen, believe it or not. I can't play the game on my TV if I am viewing it as 4:3 [the cut scenes are a rectangle in the middle of my screen, the characters look like bean poles] and as soon as I switch to full screen 16:9, the characters look the way they look in the drawings and the cut scenes fill my screen u p[/QUOTE]
yeap that really sucks to Lose one of the main people right in the middle/ towards the end of the game. what is sort of stupid is no matter where you go , you never see the mother again