Vandal Hearts II: The Gate of Heaven (ヴァンダルハーツ2〜天上の門〜), launched 7/8/1999, developed and revealed by Konami
Konami’s Vandal Hearts sequence is again with the second installment. It’s not a direct sequel to the primary. Up to now I’ve solely performed the prologue, which is about the primary character’s childhood (who I named Kurisu). The opening provides a background to the scenario (from Wikipedia):
“10 years in the past, King Zekras left the Kingdom of Natra to his son Prince Julius. Nonetheless, the youthful Prince Lagore raised a military to contest the throne, inflicting his brother to flee the nation. Whereas Lagore proved to be a good king, he was slowly poisoned by Queen Mom Agatha and her lover Cardinal Ladorak. Agatha positioned her younger son Franz as inheritor, whereas Ladorak was promoted to the rank of Premier. Now, Ladorak is oppressing the peasantry together with his brutal secret police, the Blood Knights.”
Kurisu lives in a rural space that was dominated by a sensible/sort man named Kosimo, who misplaced place due to his assist of the fallacious facet within the struggle. Nonetheless, Kosimo has needed to retire resulting from sickness, and the one that took over from him oppresses the farmers and townspeople and collects burdensome taxes. Kurisu is associates with the aristocratic lady (Adele) who lives within the mansion, however his dad discourages him from taking part in together with her as a result of their stations are too completely different.
The initiating incident is when Kurisu and his associates discover a wounded swordsman preventing with slugs. We struggle again with “salt golf equipment”.
The defining function of the battle system is the simultaneous turns. Every spherical, you select a personality to maneuver after which the pc will select one, they usually transfer on the similar time. If you happen to assault a personality that moved, your assault misses. That is form of a bizarre system and I’m undecided it fairly works — there’s no technique to inform who’s going to maneuver, which signifies that it’s usually efficient to simply “waste” your first transfer after which have everybody else beat up on the enemy unit that moved first.
Aside from that, it’s a reasonably normal battle system.
Once you win the battle, if no person died, you get double the cash (I took that screenshot whereas the quantity was counting up).
The opposite huge system on this sport is the way in which that gear and expertise work. Quite than having completely different individuals as completely different lessons, you may mainly customise your characters via gear. Anybody can equip something, however equipping staves and robes will enhance your MP and intelligence at the price of different attributes. Swords and heavy armor do the reverse.
Every weapon has a ability that you just unlock by gaining SP in battle. When you get it, you may then use the ability. You too can switch expertise to new weapons (typically of the identical sort) though there are some limitations. A few of the expertise are passive (like regenerating HP or permitting you to dig up gadgets).
Outdoors of battle the motion is on a FFT-style world map. You may go to earlier areas to struggle free battles, and I feel you can even return later to get treasure chests or hidden gadgets you missed (a few of them you may’t get till you unlock later expertise permitting you to construct rock steps and such).
Within the prologue not one of the battles current any actual problem, so it’s a superb probability to get used to the battle system and study some expertise.
Oh you can even equip two weapons directly (as you may see with the man on the appropriate there).
The story of the prologue follows Kurisu and his associates as they cope with the truth that Graud (the brand new ruler of the world) can ship his tax collectors to the villages and do issues like promote the women into slavery to get the cash, and the villagers can’t do something to withstand or Graud will simply destroy their city. Finally he turns into disillusioned with the scenario, and needs to run away Adele. However he’s falsely accused of killing Kosimo, and Adele activates him. Kurisu flees the city and the prologue ends.
That’s so far as I performed — to this point it is a fairly good sport, I feel; completely different from the primary one however gratifying to play.
