Customer Reviews:
 I liked it, but it had the worst ending ever. July 5, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This game was pretty amusing.
Had some funny moments, good costumes, generic characters you've come to fall in love with (Millenia and Elana or basically Tenchi's Ryoko and Ayeka).
Enjoyed the scenery, don't recall the gameplay too strongly, but that didn't stop me from beating it.
I give it 4 stars overall because remembering this game gives me a sense of euphoria and quaintness, which are two things a game should always leave you with.
But I wish I didn't beat it.
The ending was terrible.
MILLENIA: I think I see what I have to do now.
(Sprouts wings)
ELANA: What...about me?
MILLENIA: Don't you get it by now?
ELANA: Of...of course (sprouts wings).
That's around the point I was a bit sad.
That's just as bad as the cheesy ending in Jade Coccoon.
 Grandia II April 25, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have Grandia II for both PS2 and Dreamcast and have enjoyed this game imensly. Since i'm a younger, not so advid gamer, it could be challenging at times.
The graffics are great compared to alot of RPGS that came out around the time grandia II did and most of the music seemed to fit the game. I noticed that many of the scenes look the same in for example, Roan's fathers castle where you go into the dungeon-like area, and it's easy to get confused on which way to go next if you have to stop playing for some reason.
The charricters were all great and felt like friends but Millenia wasn't used enough in my opinion.
The battle scenes were exellent in graffics and very intence during boss battles making you feel as though your life depended on defeating them.
 Ideal for RPG beginers April 15, 2006
I have passed this game playing it when I can. Took me about a month and there are a few things that I noticed in this game that kepted me from enjoying it.
First, the compass within the game is useless. If there is a logical way to understand it then I'm at a loss. I bought a used copy and so there were no manual associated with this game but a compass is a compass and I had a hard time knowing where I was heading and where I already was.
Second, the game lags a lot. Walk into a town and you will notice a lot of eye candy but then you start to walk around and your running speed is that of a normal walk. The camera angles in towns and dungeons were also very restrictive, not allowing me to see what is on the other side of the street because a tall building was blocking my view of what is underneath it.
Third, I would like to mention that this game is very easy. There is no need to draw out maps or anything and hardly any needs to fear exploration. This is because there is about 2 save points that allows free restoration in each location. One is at the start and the other is right before a hard part. What smart players are going to do is clear the whole map and then go for a heal before meeting the boss. There is no need to be efficient about your magic since you can easily restore it.
The game, I believe was made for beginners. There is an auto-fight command but there is very little need for it since there is little need to level your characters up. The only use for this auto-fight command that I can think of is if you wish to accumulate a lot of money to buy the best set of armor that the current town sells to stay within level of the monsters (or if you didn't find the 500 gold treasure box within the map.
COOLER ACTION-PACKED RPG but lacks fun!!!! February 18, 2006
I remember the first Grandia. It had SOO MUCH FUN and ADVENTURE!!! The characters could crawl inside the air ducks, fly in the sky to get to the evil skyship, runing on a railroad, escaping from the big explotion of the skyship, hiding in a boat, breaking a fast runing train so the bad guys couldn't get them, sailing alone in the sea, escaping from prision, climbing a gigantic wall and spying from the roofs.
BUT the game had bad graphics, stupid characters, terrible voice acting, so so powers and a very childist style.
This game improved the graphics to 3D, the powers were SOOO COOOL and very well animated like Final fantasy 7, the characters are even COOLER like Chrono Trigger but not like Akira Toriyama style and the voices were SOO MUCH BETTER.
BUT this game doesn't have to much fun and adventure like the first Grandia.
Just imagine the RPG Chrono Trigger with good 3D graphics, predictable story and without cool fun adventure. This game concentrate only on the action! but is one of the BEST ACTION-PACKED RPGS I EVER PLAYED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Adios.
The Grandia Legend April 7, 2005
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I've played all three Grandias to date and this one has the best story (which people say FFX ripped off its story from). The long, difficult journey of Ryudo, Elena, Millenia, Roan, Mareg and Tio is a memorable one packed with sweet cinematics and awesome battles. The battles are made even more fun thanks to the power up system. Using special and magic coins to improve special attacks, magic and skill books makes for an RPG that relies heavily on preparation to ease the extreme difficulty of the bosses. Basically the more you power up, the better off your group will be.
Speaking of which, the original Grandia 2 on Dreamcast didn't have the cinematics that this version does. They're great eye-pleasing masterpieces. Some of the spells and special moves are also cinematized and man, do they rule! Only a few of the moves and magic in Grandia Extreme look this good. The voice acting is nice too and each character has the best suited man or woman for the job.
However, the game has its faults. This mostly comes from the lagging that happens due to the PS2 having to process such massive amounts of data in towns and dungeons. The text speed isn't much better. Just be advised of these problems or you might quit the game too soon because of them. I really don't mind the way everyone looks in the game with their simple "eyes only" faces (I draw like that myself!). The leveling up is fun and makes this Grandia the most entertaining of the three. If you want EVERYTHING including all the equipment, magic, books and items as well as intense power training, you're looking at over 40 hours of gameplay.
You won't hate this Grandia. It's a treasure among RPGs!
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