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Grandia II is back and better than ever! The classic Japanese RPG returns with enhanced visuals, new difficulty level, and features both keyboard and gamepad support!
GRANDIA II HD Remaster is a jrpg, rpg and adventure game
developed by GAME ARTS Co., Ltd., Sickhead Games and LLC
and published by GungHo Online Entertainment America and Inc..
Released on August 24th 2015 is available only on Windows
in 7 languages: English, Japanese, French, German, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 2,422 reviews of which 2,083 were positive and 339 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. š
The game is currently priced at 19.99ā¬ on Steam.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows 7 (64-bit Version)
- Processor: Intel Core2 Duo E6700
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GT 240
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 4 GB available space
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Grandia 2 - Geohunting This review contains spoilers. This review is about the Anniversary Edition and may not reflect the experience with HD Remaster version TL;dr: Grandia 2 is remembered fondly by many. Suffering from technical issues like stuttering and instability, it still is fun game to play while lacking modern quality of life features. The story is in todayās world a typical RPG story but is elevated by good writing. Recommended. Platforms played on Windows desktop Steam Deck Pros World design. Localization is well done. Cons Very linear design, which means it's easy to lock yourself out of areas. Buggy with visual glitches, audio vanishing and other issues. Things to know? Game is locked to 30 fps but allows for 60 fps in battles. Original screen ratio of 4:3 is only available for the Anniversary Edition Players can switch to Anniversary Edition from beta branch Grandia 2 Grandia 2 was originally released in 2000 for the Sega Dreamcast and later to Playstation 2 and Windows in 2002. It was later released as a enhanced version called Anniversary Edition and later again as HD Remaster. While number 2 in the Grandia series, itās not sequel to the first Grandia and features full 3D-graphics. Overview of the Story and Gameplay Grandia 2 tells the story of Ryudo, a Geohound (mercenary) who takes the job to escort Elena, a songstress for the church. When the escort mission fails, he is tasked to escort Elena to the Holy See to meet the Pope. Grandia is a fantasy JRPG. You control a party exploring dungeons, caverns and forests while traveling from village to another. During battles you enter in a unique turn-based battle system that uses something called āIP gaugeā. Your characters move while waiting for their turn, with very limited control from the player. The battles take place in a 3D arena with limited area. Abilities that hit areas are dependent on the character placement. Characters can learn skills that use SP or magic that uses MP. Magic is learned from mana eggs and only usable if corresponding mana egg is equipped. At beginning of the game, you are limited to 1 or even 2 and it takes quite some time before you have enough mana eggs for your whole party. You can also learn passive skills from skill books. Magic, skills and passive skills each use special currency. Either magic coins or special coins that are used to buy magic and skills. Speaking of parties, you can control up to 4 characters at time, each with their own specific weapons and armour limitations. You donāt have reserve characters nor any control on who is in your party at any given time. The Tech This review is about Anniversary Edition and does not consider differences in HD Remaster. Grandia 2 has its PC settings in a separate app/launcher. The game supports multiple resolutions in different aspect ratios. However, Grandia 2 is played in 4:3 resolution. Setting up a higher resolution in full-screen mode just results into black bars on the sides. To get 16:9 aspect ratio, you can always switch to HD Remaster, which in turn disables 4:3 aspect ratio (with side effect of cropping some material). The players have options for MSAA Anti-aliasing up to 8x, V-Sync, Full Screen, Shadows and for pausing the game when losing the focus. Grandia 2 is hard capped to 30 fps, but an option to allow 60 FPS battles exists in the settings. The game logic is tied to the fps, so lowering the fps slows the game as well. The game itself suffers from graphical glitches like flashing objects, some objects becoming transparent and game suffering from stuttering when played on windowed mode. Should one disable the Pause game when losing focus, the game wonāt pick up gamepad inputs, but it will pick up inputs from keyboard. On Audio side you have volume level settings 5 different audios, such as ambience volume, footstep volume and music volume. The game allows you to choose between Japanese and English voices. The audio quality is not the best however and can be really heard from the voice acting and music. One thing to note is that the cutscenes donāt have subtitles, which means that you may miss some of the story content if you donāt speak Japanese or English. Choosing a voiceover language does not really matter outside of battles. Only parts of the game outside of battles are voice acted. Most of the story is conveyed with text as was the norm of games of that era. One unique thing in the game is that many of the special effects in battles or even special moves are pre-recorded videos. Most of the cutscenes are 3D renders, but curiously one of the special moves uses anime video. I only experienced a single crash during my around 30 hours of gametime. The game is not supported on Steam Deck. The Anniversary edition works without tinkering and the energy consumption is quite low offering a nice amount of playtime. The game has cloud-saves so you can pick up your game progress on Deck while away from your computer. HD-remaster however does require tinkering to get it to run on Steam Deck. Miscellaneous DLC: The game has no DLC available. Achievements: The game has 36 achievements. One of the achievements is tied to difficulty level and there are missable achievements. There is also one achievement tied to playing Anniversary Edition of the game. You can access Anniversary Edition by switching to a beta branch in the game settings. There is no new game +, so if you aim to do everything in one playthrough, start the game on hard mode. My opinions Grandia 2 is one of those RPGs that Iāve meant to play for a long time. Now that I finally did it, I have to say it has aged quite well. The game design is very linear, you mainly go from place A to place B most of the time. The dungeon designs are not very complex and only few have any real puzzles requiring to be solved. The enemies are limited and donāt really respawn, making farming experience and other stuff an effort (there is a farming zone at the end of the game). The game mostly suffers from very, very long spell animations, which can make some of the battles quite a slog and quickly direct players instead to just use skills with shorter cast times. The story is nothing special, it has some very interesting beats, but I feel like they failed to properly incorporate these elements. Itās especially clear at last parts of the game, where some of the stuff is just dumped and then never mentioned again. The game has some minigames, but on PC the mini games are not working properly requiring cheese tactics to be winnable. The music is okay. There are some tracks that sound nice, but most of the time the tracks are not something you will really remember. The gameās writing is something I quite enjoyed. Some of the localized lines were great and really brought out the personality of the different characters. Localization was done well, and I didnāt really see that many typos. At very late game, it was clear that some of the things were rushed as you could see some of the windows not having correct sizes. The game also had some features that I would like to see to return in other games. Like discussing with the party when you take a rest at the inn. All in all, Grandia 2 is great game. There are better games and nostalgia goggles are heavy with this game, but it does some stuff very well. Highly recommended.
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I played this game as a kid, so for me -- this is some nostalgia. However, I still love the characters, interesting story, and novel gameplay. Give it a whirl - it's pretty fun!
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This was one of my very first console RPGs, and as such, I had fond memories of it. The last time I played Grandia II , you could still buy a Dreamcast in department stores. So, has it held up? For the most part, yes. The voice acting is often stilted and wooden, the FMVs blurry, and the spell animations too long, but in those ways, Grandia II is very much a product of its time. The battle system still kicks butt after all these years, with its emphasis on good timing, and the dungeon design remains great to this day. I played the whole thing on normal difficulty, and while the regular battles are on the easier side, the boss fights make up for it. The story is your typical circa-2000 era JRPG tale of melodrama and cheese love and friendship and saving the world. It's fairly linear and light on side stuff compared to others from back then, but that's not a bad thing at all. FMVs aside, the HD visuals look very nice, though there are two notable issues: the small character portraits during battle have been smoothed out so much that they look blobby, and the change in aspect ratio means that some things that were originally offscreen, such as NPCs popping on during some cutscenes, become visible. Audio-wise, some sound effects are a bit too loud, so you'll want to tweak those settings until they're manageable. On the flipside, Noriyuki Iwadare's soundtrack is as good as I'd remembered. There are a few bugs here and there, but I didn't run into anything truly game-breaking. If you're nostalgic for running around a colorful fantasy world with Skye and Millennia and the others, definitely pick this up. If you're curious about what JRPGs were like during the Dreamcast era, definitely pick this up. If you want an enjoyable, and not too long, retro JRPG, yep... you may want to pick this up.
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My childhood NĀ°1 video game of all time. I really wish they would give the IP another chance. For Steam Deck Users: If you want to play on Steam Deck, I recommend playing the Anniversary Version instead of the HD Remaster, because people report the HD Remaster to have brought in a whole bunch of issues. In your Steam Library you just need to: - Rightclick the game -> Properties -> Betas -> Anniversary Edition - Uncheck the 60 FPS Setting in the Grandia 2 Settings Launcher.
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Game is as i remember it when i played it a long time ago. The only thing I wish they added was a Fast-Forward function which really helps with grinding. 9/10 (without FF) 10/10 (If it had FF)
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Developer
GAME ARTS Co., Ltd.,
Sickhead Games, LLC
Publisher
GungHo Online Entertainment America, Inc.
Release
24 Aug 2015
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