GRANDIA II HD Remaster

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..
It's available only on Windows in 7 languages: English, Japanese, French, German, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 2,380 reviews of which 2,052 were positive and 328 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified GRANDIA II HD Remaster into these genres:

JRPG RPG Adventure Classic Story Rich Singleplayer Great Soundtrack Turn-Based Combat Fantasy Anime Cult Classic Turn-Based Retro Remake

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Requirements

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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

Reviews

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Oct. 2024

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.

Oct. 2024

My childhood N°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.

Oct. 2024

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)

Aug. 2024

This game is a ps2 classic. It has it's own charme, seperates itself from the final fantasy franchise far enough to stand out and has some unique mechanics and ideas. For fans and replayers like me a nice addition to the library, for newcomers maybe to clunky.. Tbh I think it just can't stand the todays standards where other remasters can cause this special title has very low geometry count (the chars and especially the levels). They just put aa and slightly sharper versions of the old textures into this. And on top of that there are the oldschool rendersequences in very low res which all in all leads to a super crisp washedout fighting screen with very pixelated cgi mixed into that. That stuff looked amazing back in the days on my tube television and the contrast was almost nonexistent cause the quality difference between those both worlds weren't that high. Now we have somehow remastered fighting screen (2455x1440) but the old cgi (looks like 800x600).. Still the themes, ideas and effects are still amazing! The only thing in my opinion that aged bad is the soundscape in this game. The music is goat but the mix and the soundeffects, the blendings.. all of that is very clunky. I just want to put that on the table cause there is as far as I know no option to put the sound effects lower and the music higher.. It seems you have to live with that ratio and since its in a bad condition I would like to point that out! I can overlook that and still have some nice time with this game.. 1 or 2 walkthroughs.. finishing it 100%.. but I could understand why other people won't overlook that when there are so many other games nowadays in a fairly better condition. And damn I do still love those bossfights :D 06/10 (nostalgia bonus included)

May 2024

Give me a Pokemon game with this combat system please :D Imo the best atb system i've played. The story is interesting. I'd like to see more games like this one

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19.99€

8.3

2,052

328

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Developer

GAME ARTS Co., Ltd., Sickhead Games, LLC

Publisher

GungHo Online Entertainment America, Inc.

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