Good day steemian all over the world, its your humble @ambmicheal on another game review and this time it promise to be spectacular.

We will be doing a game titled

>Vagrant Story

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But before we go into details, let us Briefly go over yesterday's game review titled [P.T Silent Hills](https://steemit.com/gaming/@ambmicheal/p-t-silent-hills) below:


>**P.T. Served exceptionally as an interactive teaser for the game Silent Hills, a cancelled installment in the Silent Hill series. 
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After the cancellation, Konami removed P.T. From the psStore and eliminated re-installing the game, a choice that later spawned criticism and fan efforts to allow P.T. To be re-downloaded.
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P.T. Obtained principal acclaim for its direction, visuals, story complexity, and its supernatural horror tension build, but used to be both criticized and acclaimed for the puzzles and solutions.**

# Gameplay

>**Unlike in the Silent Hill video games, the participant personality has no means of defense in opposition to the antagonistic ghost Lisa.
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Her design has drawn comparisons to the ubume in eastern folklore.
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not like the third-individual point of view in Silent Hill games, P.T. Uses a first-individual viewpoint, which centers on an unknown protagonist, whom the participant controls, who awakens in a haunted suburban apartment and experiences supernatural occurrences.**

>**Available areas to discover in the house encompass an L-formed hall with two rooms adjacent to it: a rest room, and a staircase which ends up in the room in which the player begins a loop, or a steady reincarnation of the hall.
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The only moves the player can use are jogging and zooming. To progress, the participant need to examine horrifying movements and remedy cryptic puzzles.
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Every time a loop is successfully completed, changes appear within the corridor.**

>**Moreover, the player encounters a adverse ghost named Lisa.
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If she catches the protagonist, the player has a random hazard of triggering a startling leap scare when turning the digital camera horizontally and is distributed again to the opening of the current loop.
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After the participant solves the ultimate puzzle, a cryptic and unrevealed puzzle that permits the player to escape, a trailer displays that P.T. Is a "playable teaser" for a brand new game in the Silent Hill series, known as Silent Hills, directed via Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro, with the protagonist portrayed through Norman Reedus.**

>**P.T. Centers on an unnamed protagonist who awakens in a concrete-lined room, and opens a door to a haunted hall, wherein he can handiest walk by means of a hallway which consistently loops and redecorates itself. 
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The primary time he passes, a radio experiences on a familicide, which was once committed with the aid of the father, and later mentions two different instances exactly adore it.
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in a while, the protagonist encounters a adversarial and unstable feminine apparition, presumably named Lisa, and upon entering the lavatory and being locked, he obtains a flashlight and finds a creature such as an underdeveloped fetus crying in the sink.**

>**He quickly will get out, but finds out that the apparition is gazing him. 
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If the protagonist is attacked with the aid of the ghost, he reawakens within the first room of the game, commencing the loop once more, nevertheless it's possible to avert her entirely. 
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In the room, a bloody relocating paper bag speaks to him, speaking of a disturbing expertise, and pointing out the identical quote visible at the start of the game - "watch out.**


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The game takes situation in the fictional kingdom of Valendia and the ruined metropolis of Le Monde. 

The story facilities on Ashley rebel, an elite agent known as a Riskbreaker, who need to travel to Le Monde to investigate the hyperlink between a cult leader and a senior Valendian Parliament member, Duke Bardorba. 

In the prologue, Ashley is blamed for murdering the duke, and the sport discloses the hobbies that happen one week earlier than the murder.

Vagrant Story is precise as a console motion-adventure function-taking part in sport in that it elements no retail outlets and no participant interplay with other characters; instead, the game focuses on weapon creation and modification, as well as factors of poser-fixing and strategy. 

The game got significant acclaim from gaming magazines and websites.

# Gameplay

Vagrant Story is a solo action role-enjoying recreation, in which the participant controls Ashley riot from a third-person perspective whilst exploring Le Monde and the catacombs underneath. 

The participant may also swap into first-man or woman viewpoint to allow for a 360 view utilising the start button or correct analog stick on the game controller. 

Characters and sprites are proportionate with each and every other, and the participant navigates Ashley on a three-dimensional discipline map. Navigation is in actual-time, and areas accessed via the player are stored in an in-recreation map menu.

Ashley can run, leap, and push crates and cubes to navigate round boundaries, including puzzle and platforming factors to gameplay.

For the period of the game, the participant must routinely resolve block puzzles to strengthen the story. When the player returns to a accomplished block puzzle room, a time-assault mode referred to as "Evolve, or Die!!" starts offevolved. 

Players must reach the tip of the room in the shortest time possible, after which they are ranked. This stage is optional and can be became off from the menu.

within the discipline map, players may just engage the enemy as soon as they enter fight Mode, which uses a pausable actual-time fight process, very similar to rectangular's Parasite Eve.

In fight Mode, when the player faucets the assault button, a spherical grid appears around Ashley. Man or woman physique elements inside this sphere can also be precise. 

The fight method includes the participant chaining special assaults known as Chain capabilities to achieve enormous combos and deal damage to the enemy. This is finished through pressing buttons in timely succession, making combat resemble a rhythm recreation.

Furthermore to Chain competencies, protecting potential enable Ashley to reduce or replicate damage or preclude popularity illnesses. Ashley additionally good points damage Arts, which trade his hit aspects for increased harm.

Ashley attacks a Crimson Blade soldier. The exclamation mark shows the factor where the player can chain assaults; reflexes need to be eager to inflict bigger harm to the enemy.

Magic in Vagrant Story is learned later in the recreation using Grimoires which can be dropped by means of enemies. 

As soon as a Grimoire is used, the magic spell associated with the Grimoire will remain in the menu, and players best need to spend magic elements to forged a learned spell. 

Magic spells can be used to assault, heal, create popularity effects, and manipulate Ashley's elemental and enemy affinities. Special magic spells allow the participant to affect multiple goals with the aid of utilizing a small sphere put inside the fight Mode wire body. 

Not like bodily assaults nonetheless, magic attacks can't be chained.

risk is an essential aspect in the fight process. A threat bar is placed under the HP and MP bar, representing the risk elements the participant has amassed. 

Hazard aspects have an effect on Ashley's concentration; the longer Ashley assaults a goal, the extra his hazard point accumulates decreasing his accuracy and defenses. Chain and protective skills expand hazard rapid than general attacks, whilst ruin Arts don't expand danger at all. 

Enemy attacks and spells deal more injury if the participant has high threat. The potential, nonetheless, is the larger possibilities for the player to attain significant hits and restoration larger HP.

Vagrant Story's crafting process enables the participant to create and customize weapons and armor in distinct "workshop" areas, inputting more than a few degrees, strengths, and facts. 

Weapons fall into one of three fundamental injury forms: blunt, piercing, and edged. Gear are influenced by their fabric and affinity to enemy courses and elements.

Affinities have an effect on the effectiveness of weapons and armor; nevertheless, apparatus would lose one type of affinity when it good points one more sort. 

Weapons and armor can also be mixed, merging their affinities and often creating a brand new sort of blade or armor within the approach.

exclusive weapon forms have exclusive degrees, comparable to a crossbow having an extended variety than melee weapons corresponding to a mace.

Like several rectangular titles, the brand new sport Plus choice is made available to the participant upon first finishing the sport. In Vagrant Story, identifying "New recreation+" permits the player to replay the story utilising their finish-recreation weapons, gadgets, and records alternatively of the defaults.

This choice permits avid gamers to access a hidden stage, which facets extra intimidating enemies and more robust equipment. The story does no longer exchange, and customary enemy records will remain at default.

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The Rood of Iocus, mystic image of the sport.

Vagrant Story is set within the fictitious city of Le Monde, while the kingdom of Valendia is engulfed in civil battle. Le Monde is an old city with a historical past spanning greater than two millennia. 

Placed on an island surrounded by using reefs, the partitions had been the "witness of many battles" and are "superior than the mightiest forts of Valendia".

In its golden years, Le Monde was a thriving community unless an earthquake struck the town 25 years earlier than the game, destroying the city and leaving the bottom unstable.

The Grand Cathedral and the Temple of Kiltia are at the center of the city. This subject is surrounded via the west and east districts, each in really excellent form, as good as the colossal, fortress-like metropolis walls. 

Under the bottom are an abandoned mineshaft and limestone quarry, the shadowy labyrinths of an "Undercity", and the darkish Iron Maiden dungeon.

The maze-like Snowfly forest, named for the so-referred to as snowflies that may be discovered inside, covers a part of the town. Different places include the Graylands, the environment for the prologue event; and Valnain, town where the Valendia Knights of Peace's Headquarters is placed. 

While Valendia and Le Monde are fictitious, the sport's surroundings is encouraged via actual-lifestyles landscapes of the southwest of France, including town of Saint- milion.

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The protagonist is Ashley rebellion, a male member of the Valendia Knights of the Peace (VKP) in pursuit of a cult chief named Sydney Losstarot. 

Sydney, leader of the religious cult Mallenkamp, laid siege to Duke Bardorba's manor on the lookout for a key and kidnapped Bardorba's son, Joshua. Ashley's companion is Callo Merlose, an agent of the VKP Inquisitors. 

Additionally attempting to seize Sydney is Romeo Guildenstern of the Crimson Blades, whose mission was undertaken without the approval of the VKP.

Ashley is a Riskbreaker, a militant division of the VKP accountable for upholding state security and legislation.

although Callo accompanies him, Ashley does no longer take delivery of her as a combat partner because of her lack of combat expertise.

Yet another Riskbreaker, Rosencrantz, seems during Ashley's battles in Le Monde, briefing him on the plans of the VKP, Sydney and the Cardinal, and subsequently his tackle Ashley's prior. 

This casts suspicion on Ashley's behalf, as Riskbreakers invariably work alone.

The Crimson Blades, under direct orders of Cardinal Batistum, are a bunch that is a part of the Cardinal's Knights of the move, answerable for seeking heretics and quelling cults.

Romeo Guildenstern, their leader, is a pious man, deeply faithful to his belief and thus immune to the darkish's powers. 

Beneath orders of the Cardinal, he pursues Sydney with a small military in his command and his captains: Samantha, Duane, Grissom, Tieger and Neesa.

Sydney and his partner, Hardin, live to tell the tale the pursuit of the Crimson Blade, although Hardin in many instances doubts Sydney's intentions.

The plot of Vagrant Story, titled "The Phantom ache", is presented as the prelude to the "story of the wanderer".

starting within the Graylands, Ashley and Callo are sent via the VKP to Duke Bardorba's manor to investigate the Duke's involvement and the Cardinal's curiosity in Sydney Losstarot.

Ashley infiltrates the manor and encounters Sydney, witnessing his powers first hand.

Sydney escapes together with his companion Hardin and the Duke's son Joshua, leaving Ashley with a clue to his whereabouts. This occasion used to be dubbed the "Graylands Incident".

Ashley rebel faces a wyvern throughout the opening sequence. The game immediately switches between occasion cutscenes and gameplay making use of the equal personality items.


Ashley and Callo arrive in Le Monde and a lone Ashley infiltrates town by means of the underground wine cellars. 

Along the way, he learns of objects conserving magical power often called Grimoires and town's vigour to spawn the undead and mythological creatures.

He encounters Guildenstern and his lover Samantha, and learns of the situation referred to as incomplete loss of life and the Cardinal's real intention for his pursuit of Sydney: immortality.

The Crimson Blades confront Ashley and exhibits his presence to Guildenstern.

Escaping unharmed, Ashley encounters Rosencrantz who intends to join him, although Ashley declines.

Rosencrantz tells him of the VKP and the Parliaments' knowledge of the dark powers of Le Monde, and that the hidden powers deep inside a man or woman can also be unleashed with the aid of the dark. 

In his encounters with Sydney, Ashley is shown visions of his earlier, where his spouse Tia and his son Marco are killed through rogues. 

Meeting Rosencrantz once more, Ashley is instructed that they weren't his family, but unsuitable targets he killed for the duration of a mission of theirs. 

Ashley's guilt over their deaths was manipulated by way of the VKP to turn Ashley right into a loyal Riskbreaker.

Ashley recalls his hidden battle capabilities and experiences "clairvoyance", seeing the progress of the Crimson Blades, which leads him to the nice Cathedral.

Sydney had captured Callo prior and introduced her with them. Callo realized that Hardin was once skeptical of Sydney's plans.

She begins to improve the powers of "coronary heart-seeing", a type of telepathy, as they continue their break out deeper into Le Monde.

Together with her powers, she learned of Sydney's intentions and Hardin's reason to become a member and his closeness to Joshua.

Sydney left them to discontinue the others from advancing; taunting Guildenstern and Samantha, and upsetting Ashley to comply with him as he intends to bestow his powers upon Ashley.

Ashley used to be no longer concerned about inheriting the powers of Darkness; seeing that Callo had been captured, his simplest intention is to rescue her.

while discussing the Gran Grimoire, a robust source of magic, Guildenstern and Samantha realize old Kildean letterings carved for the period of town partitions.

Rosencrantz exhibits that town is the Gran Grimoire and its vigor lies at the city center: the Grand Cathedral. 

As Guildenstern leaves for the Grand Cathedral, Rosencrantz searches for Ashley and Sydney. Finding them, Rosencrantz, positive in his immunity in opposition to Darkness, tries to force Sydney to surrender his powers.

Rosencrantz also assaults Ashley to show that he is now not a suitable candidate for the powers of Darkness.

Sydney refuses to listen and kills Rosencrantz by making use of a possessed statue, leaving Ashley to once again prove himself as his chosen successor.

Guildenstern continues on to the fine Cathedral within the center of the city, leading him to Callo, Hardin and Joshua. Interrogating Hardin a few distinctive "key" known as the Blood-Sin, Guildenstern exhibits his intentions in acquiring the dark's powers.

Sydney arrives to teleport Hardin and the leisure away, leaving him to Guildenstern. Guildenstern acquires the "key" from him and murders Samantha as his sacrifice for the powers of darkness. Ashley arrives later and listens as Sydney exhibits his true intentions.

Ashley then confronts Guildenstern and manages to defeat him.

Upon Guildenstern's defeat, Ashley, now bearing the "key", contains Sydney out of the collapsing city. 

The creatures spawned inside town  to vanish. Callo, Hardin and Joshua break out the town, though Hardin dies and the fate of Callo and Joshua remains unknown. 

In the epilogue, Ashley goes to visit the ill Duke Bardorba in his manor, even though when they were alone, it was Sydney who was within the room. 

Sydney tells the duke that he had found a compatible inheritor to the Darkness in Ashley, and that their plan to inherit the powers of Darkness was victorious.

The duke then proceeds to kill Sydney, and he himself died quickly after of unknown motives. 

In a document got via the VKP every week after the Graylands Incident, the duke was believed to be murdered, and Ashley grew to be the top suspect, although he was once by no means found again.

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# Development

Matsuno, the game's producer and director, desired to create a new recreation title from scratch and use design suggestions from staff collaborations, as an alternative than reusing standard characters and designs which might be discovered in sequels. 

Vagrant Story is regarded as a blend of genres, because it contains elements of role-playing in its battles and platform video games when in the area map. 

Matsuno defined that the progress crew was once no longer keen to place Vagrant Story into a targeted style, preferring to create the game with a genre of its own.

In the course of the design phase, Matsuno was proven images from France, particularly Saint milion in the neighborhood of Bordeaux. 

This vicinity used to be visited by way of one in all Matsuno's colleagues, who used to be a wine enthusiast and liked Saint-milion, one of the vital greatest vineyards of Bordeaux. 

progress of the sport spanning two years with manpower that regularly multiplied from 20 to 50 at height progress segment. 

The storyline conceived for the sport follows Ashley revolt's origins as a committed government agent previous to being the titular "vagrant" who is "concerned in many incidents" after the hobbies in Le Monde. 

Thought for the plot is derived from Hollywood "classic and blockbuster" films as well as European and Asian films. 

The gameplay used to be conceived to cater to hardcore avid gamers who don't "ask for recommendations and browse via process courses". 

Nonetheless, Matsuno revealed that over half of of the sport's story was once reduce because of ability and progress time constraints. Reminiscence issues was considered probably the most difficult aspect of the sport progress, with the workforce compelled to regulate the game's interface, texture mapping and polygon mesh in maps, as good as removing gaming elements akin to AI-managed helping non-player characters that may have joined Ashley in the center of the game.

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# OVERALL REVIEW/RATING

Graphics                9/10
Sound                 8.5/10
Gameplay           9.5/10
Controls                 9/10
Effect                      9/10

Overall Review   9/10

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# OTHER DETAILS

Game size –------------------ 85.69+1GB file

Last update------------------ 11 January 2017

Current version ------------ ******

Number of downloads --- over 2Million

Supported device --------- PC

Developer –----------------- ******

Category -------------------- Action and Adventure

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