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| Ammadeau 414th Post
 
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|  "Re(1):Summon Night question"
, posted Wed 27 Aug 21:38
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With the new SN3 coming out, I've been wondering, how good are the PS1 ones? What are they about?
I only have Summon Night 3, but from the posts of people who have played the whole series make them sound relatively similar, with the new ones tossing in some small gameplay improvements here and there.
The story of SN3 is fairly light-hearted so I'd assume the previous games keep to that theme, told mostly through character stills of varying emotion (the main character's embarrassed look always makes me laugh) and lots of voice acting. The gameplay is much like Black Matrix AD (same dev) and is the most streamlined SRPG I've ever played, though at the same time has the least a
mount of customization, so it's a trade off.
You only get to use the people you're given instead of recruiting like in most SRPGs, but you level up very quickly and the battles themselves seem to happen much quicker because of what I think of as a better design. Even buying / upgrading weapons is quick and easy, unlike La Pucelle where it annoyed me to the point I didn't even bother with it.
If you like it depends on what you're interested in as an SRPG. If you want to pick out your own troops and customize them to the hilt, that's just not here. Even the weapons and magic you can equip is restricted. If you're more interested in avoiding that nonsense and getting right to the battles, than SN series would probably be much fun for you.
The only problem is it requires insane leveling up when you reach a certain point, but then I haven't played an SRPG yet that does. This is made less painful in SN3 though by how quickly you level up (average 3 levels per battle) and you can quit free battles at any time and collect exp for the enemies you did defeat.
I could say more, but it would probably be stuff limited to SN3 and not helpful.
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