Darth Revan
10-25-2003, 03:46 PM
Has anyone else here, either have copies of these games or even played them? Personally, I love them, as they were the first 3-D strategy RPG I've ever played.

Vandal Hearts, released in 1996 - This game follows the adventures of a SDF soldier, Ash Lambert and his friends, on a journey across the world, battling all sorts of enemies and bosses. Also, the ability to choose which path of advancement each character can choose. For example, the bowman can progress along either the archer path of development (Archer and then Sniper), or the hawkknight path (Hawkknight and then Skylord). The same with all the other characters, with the exception of Ash himself. He can progress along the knight path, OR, if you can find 6 special holy artifacts, and take them to the church and give them to the Father, you enter into a special character, called a Vandalier. This special character, is not only immensely powerful, but has acess to every single spell in the game, and the cast rate for them, is relatively low as well. Having Ash as a Vandalier helps greatly in the final level of the game.

Vandal Hearts II, released in 1999 (Not to sure on that, haven't played it in ages!) - I admit, I wasn't really fond of this game, as it has altered the path of advancement and binned that completely. For flying units, you can buy flying armour, and in with this armour you can wield whatever weapon you want. In the prequel, the flying class was limited to a lance. One ability I did like, was the skill to learn certain abilities from weapons, shields, armour, etc, etc. Once learned, you can shift them to other more powerful weapons, if there are empty slots in them. Very useful.

These games were released by Konami, and I love them. The first one more, than the second, because it had a good storyline and plot to it. The sequel had a good one as well, but I felt it had something missing, but that's just me.

So, have you played them? What do you think?

ultima weapon
10-26-2003, 01:40 AM
Not KH? Damn. *walks off*

rezo
10-30-2003, 08:02 AM
I loved Vandal Hearts. Had the best scenario direction in any SLG I've played.

Durendal
12-17-2003, 06:09 PM
The first Vandal Hearts game was actually the very first playstation game I ever played and enjoyed it emmensly, the only beef I have with it is that it's too short. I had high hopes for the second game, while it has some of the best cover art I've ever seen on a game, the game itself was only mediocre.

Aerith Gainsborough
07-08-2004, 10:33 AM
Well, I know this is an older thread, but who cares? :rolleyes:

I just love Vandal Hearts! I played them both for many times.

On the first one I got pretty good, found a way to turn my group into super-heros....:laugh:

The second one, mmmm, still haven�t found everything yet. What about the sword "Vandal Hearts"? The only Vandal Heats I find, is a cheap copy....... And I never get the 100 % of the game...don�t know, what else to do. :( But I don�t give up, I�ll play it again some day.

Some people told me, they are made like the game FF Tactics, but I can�t tell, I�ve never played that before.....;)

rezo
07-09-2004, 07:48 PM
Vandal Hearts is better than FFT, but yeah, they're in the same genre.

pedo mc tax me softly, black person (whom i love)
07-10-2004, 11:56 PM
Vandal Hearts is better than FFT

Damn, where can I find a cheap copy of this game, then?

rezo
07-11-2004, 02:06 AM
It'll be cheap wherever you find it, so just get it off of ebay. I think gamestops have stopped carrying games for old systems.


Oh, it's better than FFT because of the gameplay, and scenario direction for the fights. It doesn't have the variety of units that FFT does, though.

Amur1989
07-18-2004, 11:43 PM
BETTER THAN FFT!!!

I've played them both and unless youre talking about FFT for the gameboy I can't believe what I'm reading!

I liked the game, except for the fact that in the end i realised that the last boss was a guy and not a girl (the hair threw me off).

But back to the subject Vandal Hearts was a pretty good game but it just didn't have videogame "magic" if you will. <ducks as vandl hearts fans throw stuff at me>

There were certain games I could play over and over again just because of how good the game was. I beat Vandal Hearts once I beat FFT likw 4 times!

Games I'm referring to are like

FFT
FF9
KH

Thats it so far...