For those of you who weren't aware, "The Legend of Heroes" is a Falcom (creators of Y's) RPG that was released for the PSP a few weeks ago. Wen I saw it on the shelf at the store, I was certainly intrigued, but when I looked up some reviews on the game, I became wary. IGN gave it a 5.5, Gamespot gave it a 7.1, and 1up.com gave it a 7.0. That 5.5 really made me go . But the wierd thing was that it was getting great reader reviews. The "pro" reviewers were giving it a collective "meh", but regular gamers seemed to really like it. So I bought it. (Actually one of the main reasons that I bought it was that I saw Maxlords singing it's praises in a different thread.)




The only conclusion that I can come to is that there "pro" reviewers are either just not old-school RPG fans, or are not old enough to have played many old-school RPGs in the first place. One complain that I saw echoed in multiple reviews was "bad localization". OK. The translation has many mistakes in it. But this is not something that has ever bothered me in games. It's just a few grammatical errors here and there. It doesn't detract from the gameplay.



I am definitely enjoying the game so far. It's a classic RPG style game with very nice graphics, turn-based fighting, NO RANDOM BATTLES (which makes some people very happy), etc. So far it reminds me of a cross between one of the BOF games for PSX, and Golden Sun (GBA).



Anyone else who has this game have any thoughts on it? I'm just exited that the PSP finally has a good RPG that I can sink my teeth into!

Chris