Blade Dancer: Lineage of Light (PSP)

[Damaniel]

I stopped at the closest game store during lunch to pick up Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth, and saw this game (published by NIS America) sitting next to it. From a quick look at the box, the game itself looks like it could be interesting, but the reviews on the web are rather sparse at the moment. Has anyone had a chance to try this game out yet? Any impressions?

[sirhansirhan]

I was considering picking this up tonight, but not having any money might keep me from it. It'll be mine eventually, I'm sure, just maybe not for a few weeks.

The previews for it looked cool and I love Nippon Ichi (I even liked Generations of Chaos), but yeah, I haven't really seen any full-on reviews of it yet. I'm thinking GameSpot'll get one up later today or tomorrow.

[mailman187666]

it definately looks pretty promising, but i chose to go with Valkyrie Profile instead for many obvious reasons. One of them being the huge price and availability difference from the original one.

[norkusa]

The review in the latest EGM basically ripped this game a new one. Got a 3.0, 4.5, and a 2.0. Even got their "Turd Of The Month" award (or whatever it's called). I remember their main arguments against it was that it suffered form all the usual RPG cliches and was simply not fun to play.

[segagamer4life]

Yeah, the reviews are mixed, I bought both, but only opened valkrie profile... blade dancer looks good, but I am torn on the reviews, some sites rated it good, others bad... so I have a copy on the way from gamefly to try it and if it stinks bad, I will return my copy. I would recommend renting blade dancer first.

[EndlessChris]

Guys, Nippon Ichi America is liscensing games by a lot of other companies for release in America, this isn't really a Nippon Ichi game.

Go watch a video of the gameplay, terribly slow uninteresting turn based combat, sparse and ugly envirorments, this game just looks horrid.

[sirhansirhan]

Guys, Nippon Ichi America is liscensing games by a lot of other companies for release in America, this isn't really a Nippon Ichi game.

I knew that. Still, anything Nippon Ichi has had their name on at all ever I've at least liked more than most RPGs. I know that isn't the popular opinion (I've never met even one other person that likes Generations of Chaos), but whatever.