White Knight Chronicles (Review)
I don’t want to say JRPGs are like buses but come on! In little over a month around now starved console gamers are getting Star Ocean: The Last Hope, Final Fantasy XIII and now the very late in translation PS3 exclusive, White Knight Chronicles. The Wii even got a Final Fantasy game too!
Well enough complaining just book the whole of March off and get stuck-in. RPG fans may be interested to know that this game is from Level 5, the well respected developers of the critically acclaimed Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King, Dark Cloud and Rogue Galaxy.
The story is a typical save-the-Princess/revenge saga. The only defence I can think of for such simple storylines in many RPGs is that anything too complicated would be hard work to write bearing in mind the many hours between story scenes we spend levelling-up grinding and exploring. FFX-2 being a prime example of ‘what the hell was all that about.’ Even so, we’re not seven! It’s clichéd up to the nines but still managed to suck me right in, eager as I was for a solid RPG and enjoying the momentum of the story and the characters anyway.
