Exercise 2 for DM2232

The game i chosen is "Shift"

Drakengard 2

Drakengard 2 is is a mixture of a action game with the elements of RPG

Developer(s)
cavia, inc.

Publisher(s)
Square EnixUbisoft (outside of Japan)

Platform(s)
PlayStation 2

Genre(s)
Role playing game, Aerial combat

Mode(s)
Single player

Media
1 DVD-ROM

Input methods
DualShock 2

It is a hack and slash game with different unique combination attacks for different weapons that the player can aquire through the game.

The basic User-Interface includes a heath bar(green bar), a mana bar(yellow bar) and a kill counter.

The player could change between the weapons that they aquire through the game.Thw player could use up to 4 main characters and 2 sub-characters and the use of a dragon.The changing of a character is basically the changing of the unique weapons that the characters used.The players could equip up to about 10 weapons and the players are also able to equip usable items that can increase the players health and mana.The equip of accessory is also avaliable.

Each individual character and weapons can gain experience through battle ,the higher the level of the character or weapons, the higher the health or damage the player could do to the monsters.There is also 5 different endings to the game .Each ending can only be unlocked only when the player fulfill some of the unique requirements.Weapons can be auquired not only from dungeons or fields, it also can be aquire from buying from shops in certain maps,the purchase of health/mana increase can also be aquire from the shops.

There are also free expedition that the player can unlock through the game.This free expedition enables the players to aquire weapons and items.

The game begins with Nowe, a young man that had been raised by a dragon since young, he completed his training to be a Knights of the Seal, which is a military organization dedicated to protecting the magical seals, located in five districts, that hold the red dragon's seal in place.

During his first mission, Nowe learns that the keys are powered by the life energy of "martyrs", or citizens of the former Empire that had almost destroyed the world during the war. Due to having doubts about his duties, Nowe later encounters a mysterious young woman named Manah, who have the desire to help the people by freeing the districts from the rule of the knights.

Nowe is given further reason to doubt the knights when their leader, General Gismor, betrays him by first poisoning his drink, and then revealing that he also poisoned General Oror, the former leader of the Knights of the Seal, who was Nowe's adoptive human father.

Even though Nowe has betrayed the knights, Eris still has faith in him and resolves to find a way to bring him back to the Knights. With nowhere else to turn, he travels on his own with the dragon Legna as his only companion until he once again crosses paths with Manah. Intrigued by Manah's purpose, Nowe accompanies her on a quest to free each district, unaware of what consequences their actions would have on the world.

Final Fantasy X-2

Final Fantasy X-2 is a direct sequel to Final Fantasy X.Although it is a direct sequel the gameplay of the game is not completely the same as it previous sister game.


In Final Fantasy X-2 rather than having many different character that the player can play with,
they are now limited to 3 characters in the game but, the player can change between the different dresspheres.

(Dressphere is a new gameplay system where the user can auquire a dressphere and with the dressphere,it can be equipped and used and the number of dressphere they can equip depends on what type of Garment Grid they use.The Garment Grid also provides some bluffs when the player equips it.)

The battle system is also changed from the Conditional Turn-Based Battle system in Final Fantasy X to a faster-paced variation, Active Time Battle (ATB) system.Now characters may interrupt an enemy's attack while they are preparing to take action, rather than waiting for an enemy to finish it's attack,the player/enemies can a do chain attack combos.

The area where the player can explore around is mostly the same ,with the inclusive of new created areas.

With sin defeated in Final Fantasy X, spira is slowly opening up to higher technology like the machina.The idea of having yevon as a single reglion is no longer very common amongst the young people of spira.

In the start of Final Fantasy X-2 yuna found a sphere and watched the contents of it,the images shows a man quite similar to Tidus .This therefore gave yuna the idea of being a sphere hunter,joining the GULLWINGS which is a Group started by Brother,(Rikku's brother)the GULLWINGS consist of Yuna,Rikku ,Paine ,brother and some other Al Bhed people.

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Final Fantasy X
North American box art
Developer(s)
Square
Publisher(s)
JP SquareNA Square Electronic ArtsPAL SCE EuropeINT Square
Designer(s)
Yoshinori Kitase (producer)Hironobu Sakaguchi (executive producer)Motomu Toriyama (director)Tetsuya Nomura (character designer)Yoshitaka Amano (image illustrator, title logo designer)Kazushige Nojima (scenario writer)Nobuo Uematsu (sound producer, composer)Yusuke Naora (art director)Toshiro Tsuchida (battle director)
Series
Final Fantasy
Engine
Emotion Engine
Aspect ratio
4:3 (SDTV)
Platform(s)
PlayStation 2
Release date
JP July 19, 2001NA December 20, 2001INT January 31, 2002AUS May 17, 2002[1]PAL May 29, 2002[1]
Genre(s)
Console role-playing game
Mode(s)
Single-player
Media
1 DVD-ROM
Input methods
DualShock controller

Final Fantasy X is the 10th series in the final fantasy series of games and it is the first Square Enix's role-playing game on the Playstation 2.With its good graphics and good gameplay, it managed to get a high rate on many of the online game rating websites internationally.

Although it is in the series of final fantasy games, its gameplay in terms of the battles and in terms of exploring the map, its different from all of the final fantasy series games.

Players starts off as being Tidus when he is still in spira, the attack of the enemy Sin later brought Tidus to an unknown area later when he found out it was 1000 years later after his homeland the city of Zanarkand was destroyed by Sin, he met a group of people and Rikku but a battle with Sin made lost in sea again but later he was washed ashore onto Besiad island, This is where his new story in spira begins.

The different between the Final Fantasy series games to Final Fantasy X, is that during battle , it uses the the Conditional Turn-Based Battle (CTB) system in place of the series' traditional Active Time Battle (ATB) system furthermore,the characters in battle can be switched out and the equipment they are wearing can also be changed in battle .The way they learn certain skills and gain bonus also is different as gaining the skills and bonus not only requires the level but also requires the orbs (items that can be acquire through battles)to be inserted into individual sphere grid that each character have. There is also the use of Aeons(summoning) and OverDrive(limit break) this are similar the older series of Final Fantasy games.

Crisis Core : Final Fantasy VII Review

Developer(s)
Square Enix

Publisher(s)
Square Enix

Designer(s)
Yoshinori KitaseShinji Hashimoto (executive producer)
Hajime Tabata (director)
Hideki Imaizumi (producer)
Takeharu Ishimoto (composer)
Tetsuya Nomura (character designer)
Kazushige Nojima (scenario writer)

Platform(s)
PlayStation Portable

Genre(s)
Action role-playing game

Mode(s)
Single-player

Media
UMD

This is another great Final Fantasy game release by Square Enix.
Although it is a series of Final Fantasy games,the gameplay of this release is completely different from the previous Final Fantasy series games with the new battle system which is known as Digital Mind Wave, or "DMW", it revolves around a series of reels at the upper left corner of the screen which spin continuously as long as there are Soldier Points, or "SP" left to consume.The different number combination given by the DMW will provide the player(zack) a battle bonus for that battle only.The leveling up of player(zack) no longer depend on the amount of experience accumulated from the battles but the chance of getting 777 in the power surge(power surge is a event that will happen if the reels have 2 of the similars character faces)and the player(zack)no longer use the limit breaks as and when they wants.They have to wait for the chance of the DMW reels to reel all of the same character faces.The use of magic will also be different as the magic will appear as a command rather than rather than in a separate sub-menu and there is no a place for the player(zack) to rest .The game is a story about zack that happen before the plot of the pc/ps game of Final Fantasy 7.The game eventually lead to the story plot of the pc/ps game of Final Fantasy 7.

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