Riviera: The Promised Land

well this game is a total let down because it is so easy and there are no cinematic scence just all pictures, but funny how it is dialogue through out the game though. it is a pretty straight forward game and no need a strategy guide or so whatever. i was disappointed with this game and expectly a game with a map to explore, but instead, the game proceed one scence after another. i won't pay over 20 dollars for this game, but guess what it's too late.

A while ago, my friend told me to try this game. Well, now I've tried it (well, the PSP version, not the GBA!) and I am VERY impressed with it. The leveling system and the overall game is very different from traditional RPGs, so enjoy this unique and awesome game!

I bought this game, because I thought the graphics were awesome and the battles were pretty cool. The game's got a lot of dialogue and sound effects, but I did not like it.

Even though I am an avid RPG fan, this game is just slow and really palys like one of those pop-up books in a story you follow through with not many choices to make, but to see where the story leads fighting battle after battle.

I don't recommend this game for new gamers or old ones. It was a complete deception for me. Sorry, big fans, I'm hard core, but not THAT hard core to the point of complete boredom!

Considering the fact that I own the Gameboy Advance version of this game and gave it a good review sometime back, I decided to rent this version to see how much better this version is compared to my Gameboy Advance version and give you my honest opinion on it. In some ways, I'm glad that I did rent it first. Yet, seeing as to how I'm a big fan of Riviera, I'll probably buy it at some point but not for obvious reasons concerning this PSP version. For the most part, the PSP Riviera is the exact same game I played on the Gameboy Advance. The noticable differences in the game are that they improved the graphics as well as the soundtrack, have more voiceacting in the game, added a few new cutscenes, included a dual language functional and reworked the controls all for the PSP port. You play Ein, a Grim Angel, who's been sent to Riviera to start 'the Retribution' that will destroy Riviera, and all the demons that have taken over there, once and for all. That's where the story begins. For those of you new to Riviera, Riviera is not your 'typical' traditional style RPG(like Final Fantasy, Breath of Fire or Golden Sun). Combat and Navigation in the game is alot different than your normal traditional RPG and that is what makes this game so unique & so much fun to play. I won't go into detail about it myself. I'd simply like to direct you to the Gameboy Advance reviews of this game as there are plenty of reviews there that will explain it to you. Either that or look back here later on as I'm sure someone will, eventually, explain it in these reviews. Depending on how you play the game, you'll get more than 40+ hours of gameplay and, as I stated in my GBA Riviera review, RPGs like this one only come along only once in awhile. It'd be a crime missing this one. Yet, I will have to say that if you already own the GBA Riviera- you're better off sticking with that game as there's not much new here to warrant a purchase. But, if you're new to the game, I would suggest you purchase the PSP version. I would have loved to have seen a new episode in the Riviera saga, myself, but Developer Sting thought it was necessary to do another port of the original for the PSP. Knowing our luck, next up will probably be a port of their next game after Riviera which was Yggdra Union. I just hope, at some point, they give us fans the game we want.

This is NOT your typical "dungeon-crawl" style RPG. Each battle is "graded," and how well you do determines the number of actions you can take later. There's also many places where you will be required to match buttons, hit a button at a certain time as a meter moves up and down, or numerous other tricks-of-dexterity.

That said, the graphics and sound is amazing and the story is really easy to get into. If you can handle a little frustration and some thinking, you may want to look at this game.