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Pros:
- Vast gameplay with plenty of fun optional quests
- Well-organized quest and lore indexes for easy reference
- Lots of fighting styles and combination moves
- Flexible saving system allows you to back up your game easily
- Occasional camera angle problems (but fewer than the first Summoner!)
- Easy to miss out on one-time chances at optional quests while following storyline
- Many long stretches that must be traversed again and again
| PLATFORM: | PlayStation2 |
| AGE GROUP: | 12 years and up |
| CATEGORY: | Video Games |
| MANUFACTURER: | THQ |
| ESRB RATING: | Teen |
| TYPE: | Video Games, PS2 (PSX2), Sony Playstation (Play station) 2, Playstation2 (Play station2), Role Playing Games (rpg, rpgs), Great Deals (Outlet store) |
| MEDIA: | CD-ROM |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| ACCESSORIES: | |
| UPC: | 752919460153 |
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Customer Reviews of Summoner 2
First time I've finished an RPG and not replayed it. It's prettier than the first one, the battle system has a lot more variety, the characters are well-drawn and capable, and enough of the original approach was preserved that it still feels like a "Summoner" game.
But I never got excited about this one.
The first one didn't really grab me until a plot twist about a third of the way into the game, but that twist really ramped up my desire to play the game, to finish it, to explore every corner available to me. Summoner 2 has nothing like that--there is no truly compelling plot, very little real drama among characters...it's all pretty standard fare. The most exciting things in Summoner 2 were the hints dropped about Rosalind and Flece (characters from the original Summoner), and the appearance of a mysterious, chilling woman who was once a mysterious, chilling little girl (anyone who thoroughly played the first game knows who I'm talking about).
Maia's story just doesn't thrill me that much.
Maybe it's just that the game has so much in it and I don't have the patience to do it all properly. The business of sitting on the throne and running a kingdom is great, and good decisions result in character-boosting events, but you can only run the kingdom X amount each time you go there. Generally, you have to finish the next big plot point before the home scenario will continue.
I love the large number of quests, but they frequently got in the way of the story--if not for the Quest sub-menu, I don't think I'd have known which assignments were main story quests and which were sub-quests...some of the sub-quests really skate the line in terms of their apparent importance.
In the end, I felt as though I was meandering through the whole thing, not entirely sure of what I was doing, often having to go on solo missions without any support from the other player characters, which is probably my biggest complaint about the game.
I love having to think my way through battles rather than just hacking and slashing, but a lot of the solo missions put you in the middle of large groups of enemies with little to get you through but your sword and your store of health potions (I always keep at least 50 on hand). The combat system felt innovative at first, but quickly deteriorated into an exercise in button-mashing: the game includes many, many special maneuvers for the characters, but a well-timed hit from an enemy can interrupt the maneuver prior to completion. I found that so frustrating that I never bothered with anything but the most basic attacks, meaning I rarely pressed anything but the square button. Hack, hack, heal...hack, hack, heal.
After my wonderful experience with the first Summoner, I'm finding myself wishing I had enjoyed this one more. In fact, take the first game and upgrade the graphics to Summoner 2's level, tweak out a battle system that combines the best from each game, and you'd have one of the greatest RPGs ever released.
This will be a great sequel worth of the name Summoner
I played the demo of this game and it really is looking better
than the first one. Graphically this game looks very good the
special effects look fantastic. The new battle system allows you
to get more involved in combat where you need to press the button
to swing your sword rather than just issue commands to your characters ans sit back and see what happens like in the first Summoner. This game has a feature similar to Final Fantasy X in that you can switch between characters during a fight since you can only have up to 3 characters, you can plan some strategy and see which character is better for a particular situation. The voice acting is still top notch as it was in the first game. The story and mythology of this game is rich and in depth and makes you wanna know more. This is a fabulous rpg game with tons of hours of game play. You don't need to have played the fist Summoner in order to understand and play this game but for those who have played Summoner 1 they will enjoy some of the references Summoner 2 has of the first game and there are some characters from summoner 1 appearing in Summoner 2. I definetly recommend this game to any hardcore rpg gamer or casual gamer. Buy it!
Excellent sequel
This is a very worthy follow up to the original Summoner. The action is more fast-paced and intense, the characters are more interesting, there are a huge number of quests to do and, like it's predecessor, the game does a very good job of creating a highly immersive, well-realized world.