Game Review : Eternal Sonata

Eternal Sonata is both combination three elements, a touching and yet promising storyline, a game with a world of full desires and imagination, and also a game filled with bitter, sweet and tear-dropping musics.

Eternal Sonata was previously made exclusively for the Microsoft XBox consoles., known as Trusty Bell. It receives high rating for a very cartooned game. It received a score of 8.5 upon 10 from Gamespot.com, a famous critic in the gaming world.

Part of the Team
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Prince Crescendo Under Attack
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Eternal Sonata still possess the old RPG game battle system where characters take turns to attack the enemies, so does the enemies. Fulfilling the break gauge could cause the enemies to receive more damage than usual. Combination of sequence attacks could fill the gauge in a fast pace. Although character take turns to attack, the strategy and planning of every move is important, but the most troublesome problem is that a character must take make their moves in a period of time, and as the gamer go deeper into the game. Subsequently, every move that the gamer make will slightly increase the time.

Magical Attacks
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Ranging from physical attacks to magical attacks, Player first view attacks with a bow, the rich color of the game as shown in the picture above would leave gamers not want to stop playing. In addition, the background of the battle scenes are beautifully created, though one of the negative side of the battle scenes is repetition of background.

The soundtrack of the game is very touching, soothing and some can make gamers feel the heat of battles in the game. Even the soundtrack CD is out a few months after the release of the game. The soundtrack is a must buy if gamers love this game as much as I do.

Funny enough, the characters in the game are named after musical instruments, for instances, Claves, Falselto , Jazz and the great deceased musician, Federick Chopin.


Ups:

• Easy to navigate
• Brilliant colours
• Nice storyline (definitely one of the best)
• Nice battle system

Downs:

• Limited exploration
• Might spend too much time training characters
• No turning back if things that are supposed to happen, did not. (might lose some equipments)
• Easily lost in certain scenes
  

For my rating, I'd definitely give this game a 9/10 , with one point taken away because of the time and limitation on exploring maps.