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Yes..... I should be posting in my normal journal.. but. I felt post here instead ^_^

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DIGITAL DEVIL SAGA!!!

If anyone is into rpgs here, how many members there is. I have no clue ^_^
Anyhow I will be reviewer of this game and what it is so far

Story

The story revolves around the first portion of the series, which is the first game Digital Devil Saga. there will be a second game but for the sakes of the game as it is now, I will review that. Now on the story hehe

Basically You have tribes at war. Embryon and five other tribes. Basically they are trying to gain terratory. You open up with an awsome anime cut scene with Serph and Agrilla fireing at there enemies ^_^. Next thing you know something called the pod!!! shows up and zaps everyone with wierd red lights. o_O Next thing you know, they wake up, and feel strange. They see a strange girl whos name is sara, and begins to kind of have a control over their unknown powers. We come to find that our friends Serph, Agrilla, Heat and several others in the tribe can now transform into demons!!1 yay!! let us feast!! so now Serph and company are on a quest to find out why the other tribes are after sara, uncover trueth on there mysterious power and the pot, uncover who sara really is, devour enemies, and as well as gain more terratory ^_^

Ahh yes does that not sound sooo cool!!!!
To bad its only the first game, you will get more questions then answers, but you will at least understand whats going on, and why things are going on as it happends.

Gameplay

If anyone has played an rpg before, you will know the run down here. Lets describe game play shall we?

First of all, the basics
Outside of battles, you control Serph and a party of thre members that you choose from. You start off with Serph, Agrilla, and Heat. These will really be your main characters that you will be using a lot, but you gain two more characters that are useful if you are willing to work them up ^_^. Anyhow, directional pad is your movement or joy stick which is the left analog stick which ever your more confortable with _^^. Your L1 and R1 are camera movement to swtich your views around, as well as your right analog stick. Square brings up your menu screen, triangle brings up a map screen if able to, and X button is basically your talk/action key. circle is a cancel button for shops, or exiting out of menues and all that. I believe so. I might be wrong hehe, kind of forget the cancel button sometimes. ^_. In genearl towns/bases, you will get places with items, a karma temple which contains a save, get mantra option, and restore option, to item shops. As you go through dungeons, ou will encounter a ourange circular field which is a Karma Temple. You may use this to Save or get Mantra, or Teleport to teh beginning of a dungeon if needed. Also, you will see a green circular field which is used to restore HP and MP if needed. Remember, if you are going to use the restore fields, it will cost you, the higher injrys or los MP the higher it will cost you to completely restore them

BATTLE SYSTEM!!!

Yes, I am sure your wondering all about this hehe
Here we go

Battles are mostly random encounters. You get the normal battles, or ambush battles once in a while. Usually you are always in normal battles ^_^ Sometimes battles can be repetative so get ready hehe ^_^. Anyhow as you first get into early battles, you have the main screen where you see your characters with there backs faceing your, and the enemies across. typical yes hehe. Your character portraits and hit points, to magic points are layed out on the bottom right side next to the menu that you can choose commands. On the top right is a turn indicator, which is good for letting you know if you have extra turns in the current battle. Your menu on the left of your character portraits is pretty much laid out easy. You use up and down to cycle through your options, and left and right to view different kinds of menus. When first looking at your menu its all attack and magic/physical skills related stuff. If you hit the right arrow, its combo menus, unless like in the beginning its not there, but usually after the first couple of battles you will get some combos to use. Hit the right arrow again will be your item options, Hit it again, you will get your revert/transform to defending. Hit it again, you will get the retreat option. so choose wisely ^_^. You start out as demons in each battle, but you may hit the revert command if you wish to go human form, up to you. All your magic and physical skills will be in demon form though, human form, your only able to do normal attacks and combo attacks. Why do human when you can do all of that in demon form? Well its really up to you, just use stratagy when batteling ^_^ Controls are basically simple, X is the accept button, circle is the cancle button just in case you hit the wrong action, traingle is to have all your characters attacks in their respeccted turns, and square is the autmatic pass character turn button. why did they put a pass command when you can just hit square? Beets me hehe

Turn Indicator
As I said above, there is a turn indicator on the top right. Basically used for looking at how many turns you have. These are indicated by the blue dots, You start out with three, which are used for each character. Now the key here is, if you use a attack that makes your enemy scared of you, or you use a skill or magic that does critical damage, you get extra turns. You can also get a extra turn by passing a characters turn. Key h ere is to find enemy weak points and exploit them ^_^. If you by happen to have yoru enemy start shaking, you will get more AP which is always a good thing

Experience and Growth system

After every battle, you will gain experience points for gainning new levels of power, and as well as ability points that fill up your bar for the current Mantra you are learning. Mantra is basically a demon that you are learning and its skills. Skills include, magic of all sorts, from elemental, death, status, and then there are hunt skills, which are basically used for hunting demons in which you eat them when they are week, and gain more AP, and then physical skills which is explanatory. Be careful though, if you are going to use a lot of hunting skills to devour demons, you may gain AP, but you will get a stomach ache if you eat to much at a time, iif you get a stomach ache, you can cure it with an item or magic, and if you do not, you will be imobile for a while heh ^_^, so be careful Anyhow my suggestion is, building serph as you want him, from magic, to hunting to physical, just stay away from status stuff since its not needed. Agrilla, build her as magical and minor hunting and physical mantra. she is more your mage then anything. Heat, make him really physical and hunting, since he is really high on physical attack. Celio, and gale which are you latter characters, build them as you please.

If you level up, you will get a screen to splid up skill points to strenght, vitality, magic, agility, and luck. the only person you get to do this is for serph. so build him betweeen everything but luck, uness you really really really want to do luck then sure go ahead ^_^ Usually its only three skill points you get so use them as you wish. Also during this screen, you can recover minor HP if you have devoured some enemies or killed the most enemies during the fight as you level up, and as well as may gain some extra points on a skill.

Mantra System

Basically, after you complete your first dungeon of the game, you will be able to start learning diffferent mantra. These are basically demon names, which contain different skills that related to what there description is. Example, Fire Spirit, the descritption is fire magic hehe ^_^. Most mantra will give you between two to four skills. Note that to learn these, you must download them, so when doing so, it costs money!!!!. Depending on the stars shown on the mantra will be higher money ^_^. so then this will ultimately narrow down your skillss that you give to your characters hehe. You are able to start learning after the first dungeon. Also, you can switch different mantras of leanring while in dungeons. to do so, after you see a save point, just go to it and you will see the option of Get AMantra. Most places you visit will have a save point in which you can save and or get mantra.

Well there you go folks ^_^

MUSIC!!!

lets just say........................... ist great music. Its well flowing, and brings the game out to life

Voice Acting

voice acting is pretty good, its very stellar and gets the job done
Yes a lot of anime characters do the acting ^_^

Well there you go folks
First review for our lovely community

My score is 8.6

I love a lot about this game, and I am very anxous to see whats going to happen to our lovely characters
So go enjoy a good sci fi game
REMEBER HAVE A FEAST!!!
GAIN COMBOS
GAIN BAD ASS SKILLS
AND SOMEWHAT FOLLOW MY SUGESTIONS ^_^

I will be putting up a lot of reviewws, so if anyone has something for me to review, I can be the one to do it ^_^. I know a lot about things, and I generally like writing

Maybe I should put up my poetry up here???
Even though its not listed hehe

Well take care everyone ^_^
Comments are appreciated please ^_^

"Let the storms of devouring power bring forth the light we call hunger"

Fonzie ^_^