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| From: Sony
Category: Video Games
List Price: $39.99
Buy Used: $9.49
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Avg. Customer Rating:  47 reviews
Sales Rank: 1745
Platform: Playstation2
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Playstation 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 97490
UPC: 711719749028
EAN: 0711719749028
ASIN: B000G77X34
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Previously Owned. Disc may have light Scratches.
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| Features:
| • | Build your own special items and weapons | | • | Mini-games and subquests add to the adventure&further the challenge | | • | Collect over 120 Insectors -- players will increase rank and earn prizes by advancing through tournaments | | • | Search throughout the galaxy for clues to track down rare items -- locaitin all items provides players with special prizes | | • | Follow clues and gather information to collect the set of legendary Seven-Star Swords, considered the most powerful weapons in the game |
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Product Description
Rogue Galaxy is great fantasy role-playing where you follow a planet-hopping rogue for battle and adventure. At the far edge of the galaxy on the desert planet Rosa, a young man named Jasterdreams of journeying through space. He is recruited to join the crew of space pirate Dorgengoa in a race to find a legendary planet that holds the key to the greatest of treasures -- eternal life. Players follow Rogue as he planet-hops around space, visiting a number of planets, each with their own unique ecosystem populated by various unusual creatures. Play successfully to earn hunter coins that upgrade a player's hunter license and open up additional challenges Over 8 hours of high-quality cut-scenes and cinematics
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| Customer Reviews: Read 42 more reviews...
 Fun but uninspired-Ruby Tuesday's for PS2 October 9, 2008
Rogue Galaxy is like Ruby Tuesday's. Sure you can get a good burger at Ruby Tuesday's but there really are not that many substantial differences between that place, Bennigans, Applebees, Chili's (well excepting fajitas and endless tostada chips), Fridays....and Rogue Galaxy has no real substantive differences with a host of scifi films and other rpgs.
Let's start with the meat and potatoes. Rogue Galaxy is a solidly designed game with a good battle system, excellent graphics and very good voice overs. There are some problems; you can only play as one character during battle scenes and the AI needs a bit of work since most of the other party members seem to yell "Jasper!" as much as they actually fight the bad guys. The dungeon scenes seem to go on a bit longer than they should have. No deal killers to be sure on this end.
The problem with Rogue Galaxy is its shameless unoriginality. Space pirates (think FFXII) meets Star Wars! A restless young man on a desert planet dreams of going into space and with the help of a short being and a tall robot is able to live his dream. Throw in a spunky princess who does not mind hanging with the boys and the "There's one thing he didn't tell you....I am your father" character and the blatant story stealing gets on the nerves. Rogue Galaxy comes off as having been designed by a committee who wanted to play it safe. All cliches on deck and reporting for duty, Captain!
Is the game fun? Sure if you don't mind reliving the same plot from a thousand other stories and playing as the hero with a thousand faces (though ever since Joseph Campbell and George Lucas started hanging out together, that may have become the hero with a million faces). The gameplay and the graphics save the game. The big problem is you'd think the ghost of Star Wars would go away after 30 years instead of being basically plagiarized for video games.
WIDE September 22, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
IS A GREAT GAME THAT WAS FOUND INTERESTING BY ME AND BOYFRIEND WE WERE TRYING TO,WELL HE PLAYS AND I WATCH BUT THE ONE I GOT BEFORE ALWAYS WAS GETTING STUCK AT THE SAME POINT. VERY NICE HOW YOU CAN INCREASE THE SPECIAL ATTACKS FOR EACH CHARACTER A LOT OF DIFFERENT ITEMS ARE REQUIRED FOR THESE DIFFERENT ATTACKS
I Think I died a little inside September 9, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Okay i finished this game about 3 months ago and really don't ever want to go back to it again. You know the things i actually liked about the game were The traveling to different planets, The Ships Outer design and Not to mention Kisala was actually kinda cute. It's Character Designs were not impresive. The way you had to upgrade wepons became a pain. And i never did figure if there was a second Frog. I didn't understand the whole bug catcher thing. The Story line strayed so many time i forgot the whole reason of him leaving his homeworld. And then when you think you have a clue on who the enemy might be it throughs you a loop and what do you know a story change...Im talking about how the explorer looks like he gets killed off by the robot but later it shows he didn't. Then when you finally defeat the final boss...Oh wait it wasnt the final boss...And then all the characters have to fight one section of the final Boss (okay that took 2 hours in it's self) and don't get me started on the dungons. The final dungon yea most rpgs there long. This one took me 2 days of playing 5 hours straight to finally reach it. Granted some of the dungons werent that long, but some it would take you an hour to get out. I started out doing well in this game but i tell you what i had to use cheats once i got to the prison. Yea and how you meet 5 of the main charecters with before you leave the first world. hmmm, lets see in ff6 didn't take you all game to get all 14 players and Chrono Cross to get all characters you had to play the game atleast 2 or 3 times. Not here 5, then the next 2 worlds you pick one up and then finally you get the Dog, Why the hell theres a planet filled with Elvs and Dogs, i don't know. I guess if you really want to play this game go ahead i would rent it though and see if you would like it first. I payed 40 dollers for it when it came out, yea don't wast 40 dollers like i did. The Pluse side was i also bought Xenosaga 3 that day too so it wasn't a total loss.
 an okay game not a waste but not really worth your time either. September 2, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
ok to start off i loved this game when i first got it,it was way fun, and the thought of 100+ hours of that fun seemed impossible... it was, the game was a balst in the begging, finding new charecters and equipment, and getting new skills on the flow chart(alot like the liscense board in FFXII) and wepon synthesis. but all the fun quickly became repetative and the super long dunjuns were mega not fun and the occasional enemy that needs to be shot with the shield breaker gun just so you can kill it was really annoying, the only reason this game is 100 hours + is because of the lame stuff you will end of doing over and over and over, and soon you begin to realize how lame the story is... i mean omg it sucks but i dont want to spoil it for you.
A enjoyable action rpg, with a few issues. August 22, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Story:
Jaster Rogue is stuck on the backwater planet of Rosa with dreams of exploring the vast galaxy that he gazes up at every night. Unfortunatley with the expanding war between Longardia (rosa is under their control) and Draxil his dreams are fading further away. One day Jaster is returning to the city from a hunting trip when a beast suddenly attacks the city. Knowing that he is one of the few who might have a chance against the beast Jaster rushes toward the center of the city where he bumps into a mysterious stranger who helps him fight off some of the attacking beasts. After the battle the stranger gives him a strange sword, wishes him luck and disappears. Not long afterward he finds the rune beast attacking the city and also two men who claim to be space pirates and are looking for someone named Desert Claw and Desert Claw had a sword that looked a lot like the one that Jaster is holding.... so begins the story on how a case of mistaken identity sets Jaster and his crew of misfits on a journey to find the lost planet of Eden, which legend tells was the the richest planet in the galaxy before it disappeared 10,000 years earlier. Soon though a simple treasure hunt turns into a race to beat the evil Daytron corporation from using Eden for its own evil (though profitable) ends. Will Jaster find Eden before Daytron? Will getting to Eden save the galaxy from Daytron or did Eden disappear for a more sinister reason?
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To start off I did like this game. It is a bit straight forward, all the pieces fall into place like your standard RPG. In some parts of the game it did look like the developers were trying to go a bit deeper with the story and character backgrounds but that just kinda falls flat for some reason, Final Fantasty, Mass Effect or Suikoden it it is not. Also around the middle of the game the reason for Eden disappearing involves the messing around with of time. Which to me is where the story starts to unravel a little, the characters talk about 10,000, 30,000, and 50,000 time periods like they were nothing and one of the characters apparently spent about 9980 yrs floating around in space with her robot body guard until she was found by the space pirates. I know its a video game rpg and a fantasy/scifi one at that but still it would have been nice if the last half of the story made a little more sense. The only other complaints I had was the dungeons and the leveling combining process. Mostly the dungeons are the same with different wall paint or backgrounds slapped on, which I didn't really mind because the combat system is great in this game (though it can get repetive because the enimes don't change much either, they just change colors)and I could happily wack away for a couple of hours and come back the next day and do it again. But the problem is that there is only x amount of weapons to combine before combining any more starts to actually weaken your weapon. Which means (at least to me) there is no point to keep wacking away at the monsters. It just gets boring diving to the bottom of the dungeons to find items either you don't need or weaker weapons that can't be leveled and combined because they actually make the weapon you have worse. Like another reviewer said completionists will love this game since there is a ton of treasure chests to find, quarrys to track down, and secrets to find. But if your like me once most your characters have weapon that is in the 300 to 400 dmg range, you'll proably just start running through the dungeons because your levels are high enough that a few whacks will kill anything and if it doesn't you have proably unlocked most of the skills so that will polish the rest off. Which makes the end dungeons very annoying because monsters tend to pop up a lot and the dungeons are loooong. Other than those minor issues this is a very enjoyable RPG that will keep most players entertained and playing to find out how the game ends.
Summary:
Graphics: Bright, clear, and vibrant. Dungeon backgrounds can be a bit repetive. The CG sequences in this game are definetly worth looking at. Somtimes it suprising they look that good on the PS2.
Contorl/Camera: Works, mostly. Somtimes there is so much activity on the screen its hard to figure out where your character is, also unless you can get the hang of the targeting system its usually better just to hit whatever is close so the character locks on without having to to cycle through all the enemies. This can cause some issues during boss battles.
Gameplay/story: Gameplay is entertaing until the weapon combining and skill discovery limit is hit and then it can become boring repetive. In my case this did not happen till the end so it wasn't a big deal. The story is a no brainer with indications that it could have gone higher and further. Around the middle of the game the scifi aspect kicks in a little and the story gets a little garbled.
Conclusion: I would recommend this game to any one who likes Action RPG's and those who like thier games to have a lot of stuff and secrets to find.
m.a.c
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