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| Popolocrois | 
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Category: Video Games
List Price: $39.99
Buy New: $7.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (10 reviews)
Sales Rank: 5141
Platform: Sony Psp
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.1 x 0.6
MPN: TOM PSP101
Model: 93992097509
UPC: 093992097509
EAN: 0093992097509
ASIN: B000809NXW
Release Date: December 1, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Playstation Personal | | • | ESRB Rating: E for Everyone | | • | Action/Adventure |
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Product Description
Sony Computer Entertainment's popular cel-shaded RPG series comes to the PlayStation Portable system with a returnof the original adventures of Prince Pinon of the first and second PlayStation installments of the series, enhanced with new elements and updated details. Playing as Pietro, prince of the Popolocrois Kingdom, you head off on your first adventure in order to find a way to awaken your mom. Battles are now grided strategy, with you moving your party members in turn with enemies. In addition to standard attacks, magic attacks and character combination attacks, the game lets you summon beasts to help out. Dungeons also feature prominently in the game, requiring that you work through traps when not in battle.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 Big stuff in a small package!! July 2, 2008
I began playing this game and at first thought, oh another final fantasy clone, but soon was completely engrossed in the story telling, the characters, the theater quality Anime cut-scenes, and couldn't put it down. And like a favorite book, you may just come back again and again, just to immerse yourself in the Popolocrois universe like I have. Great fun for the whole family. Enjoy!!
I Love Popolocrois! September 25, 2007
I really love this game. I would highly recommend it to any RPG / Anime fan of any age. It has a good story line and awesome little movies here and there. I was a little skeptical at first. I thought it might be cheesy with not so great battle action, but I am very glad I gave it a try. The only thing I could see change is the random, pop-up battles out in the fields. But you get used to that after awhile and the quicker you move the less fighting you'll have to do between locations, so it's really not bad. I enjoyed this game very much and hope you will to!
really cute and quick August 30, 2007
Must have for the RPG player. Even though it can be finished in one sitting. *i finished the game in the course of a day* battle system is simple, the story line is cute * a little boy going to search for his mommy*. the loading times and the battle system aren't half bad.
Great Game!!! July 31, 2006
Excelent Game. (old school RPG).
- good graphics and audio. (the graphics are beautifull).
- good fighting/battle system. (old school).
- good story (typical, but not so bad).
- The spells are cool!!!.
- When you're in a battle and do a special move, it loads for
about 1 or 2 seconds, then the rest of the special moves don't
need to load. (it doesn't really bother)
The game is pretty fun.
The best old school RPG I've ever played... March 25, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
First of all, why is this game listed in the Fighting section of PSP? Anyway, I'd like to say that for a game that's 10 years old it holds up suprisingly well. Here's why...
Concept: Take two PS1 games of a cherished Japanese phenomenon, combine them and add a couple of extra fillers. Yes, the story is a bit on the typical cliche' RPG side but, it charmed the crap out of me. All of the characters are unique and they all play their part nicley. The flow of the story might seem a little odd considering they are two stories.
Another reason is that the first game is way shorter and way easier than the second. But it's a good way to ease you into the game. The length it says on the back of the game (over 30 hours) is kind of misleading depending on what kind of gamer you are. I lierally JUST finished the game and the hours it said I logged on it was a little over 49 hours! To be honest though, about 3 of those hours was just me leaving my game on while I had other business. But still, it's pretty lenghty. The first part of the game is 10-14 hours depending on the gamer. And you can pretty much tell where the first game ends (climax). So, you can imagine that the rest of the game felt like it was never going to end.
Yes, the story is kind of typical but it's charming and I began to feel myself becoming connected with the characters. Everyone says that the game is kiddy which is true...kind of. There are actually some pretty deep, sad, heartening elements to the story. But don't get me wrong-it's full of quirk and goofiness. I actually thought some of the parts were really funny. The Gami Gami Devil is funny and a lot of the towns poeple say funny things too. I guess this adds another layer to why the game was longer for me; the poeple in towns talk a lot. I love that.
Graphics: Ok. A lot of poeple don't like old school graphics. I admit that I've started to get tired of them. But this isn't like FFIV old school. I mean, these graphics are beautiful. It all looks like the classic hand-drawn fairy tales. All the buildings/towns look awesome and the anime cutscenes are great! At first, you won't get too many cutscenes. Be patient. You'll be rewarded.
Now, to give you the sad side of the graphics: whenever you run there is this type of blurring effect which looks terrible. However, if you hold down the x button while moving you'll walk instead of run and there is no blurring. But this might get on the nerves of impatient players. I admit, I never walked because I just got used to the blurring effect. In my opinion, as long as you're watching your character while you are running you won't really care(your character doesn't blur). This will probably just give a lot of people headaches.
Gameplay: The fighting/battle system (I think) is awesome. When running around in the open world you encounter random battles. Then, you get in a, sort of, turn-based grid. It brings up a menu letting you choose whether to attack, use your special skills (which you constantly learn new ones and level them all up), or flee from battle. What's cool though is that after you select your command you have to move your characters around in FF Tactics type grid and target your enemy. At first everything is real easy. After about 15-20 hours in the game things are a little challenging. I still didn't have to level up in the game though(new coming RPGers might want to level up a little once it gets harder).
One thing that might anger players is that they don't really tell you exactly where to go sometimes. But most of the time it's really obvious. Also, there's a little tip to when you don't know where to go that, I guess, every professional reviewer missed: if you don't know where to go just pull up your map and scroll through the towns and there will be a little red flag indicating where you're supposed to be. How did everybody miss that? On the flip side of this helpful hint is a VERY annoying glitch (I don't know if everyones' game has it): sometimes, later in the game, you'll try to pull up your map and your screen will go black. What!?! I know. The first time it happened I thought my game crapped out or my PSP battery was done. My solution: don't freak out. Just hit the "o" button to back out of the (invisible) map and move around till you find a spot that lets you pull it up. In the grand scheme of all things PoPoLoCrois this isn't a very big deal. I mean, you don't HAVE to look at your map.
Now for another flaw in gameplay. When in a battle the loading for spells is a couple of seconds long. Never more than 4 sec. It seems a little rediculous that the disc will take so much time to load these spells that (mostly) aren't very impressive. The samurai Kimendoji's spells are cool. (There are a total of 9 playable characters. You can can 4 in a party at a time).
Sound: The soundtrack for PoPoLoCrois is great! There are a lot of real instruments used in all the scores. Don't expect any grand orchestral scores. I was relieved. The music gives off the same feeling that story and graphics give you: a heart warming glimps into a fairy tale. All of the towns and dungeons have their own music and each town has its own sense of ethnicity. In Kimendoji's town there it's all beautiful Japanese music birds fluttering like you might here in a Japanese garden somewhere.
The sound effects are cool but, they stand out like the music. I thought the voice acting was well done. Also, it's cool at the beginning of every battle when hear the sound of Pietro's sword being unsheathed. It's not outstanding but, it does the job and I enjoyed it.
Finally, I'd just like to say that you're probably not going to play this game more than once. But who cares? There are so many great games that come out that I'll never have enough time to play any of the games I have more than once. But it's the moments that the game gave you when you DID play. If it's worthy enough of a game it'll stay in your collection. And this game will definitely stay in my collection. It has its flaws but to me it was a quality experience. One more thing (noboby'll read this anyway 'cause it's rediculously long) after the credits are done the game will ask if you want to save over your existing data or not. If you want to go back and just talk to anyone in the towns and what-not then create a new save file. When you save at the end of the credits there is a new file. Click on that new file(album) at the load screne. This new file contains every cutscene in the game in order! How cool is that!?!
If anyone stuck through this monstrosity. Thank you!
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