Soul Nomad
- Save the world, without losing yourself!
- Conscript warriors to create your own army
- Grid based SRPG attack system - create special combination attacks based on who you place next to whom
- Interact with all sorts of characters from a variety of fantastic races
- Overlord Gig can grant you the power to defeat the final boss in the first twenty minutes. for a price
Product Description
Long ago an evil overlord wreaked havoc upon the world with his three demon golems. Entire kingdoms and countries were wiped out with their amazing powers. When all seemed to be doomed a powerful wizard sealed the overlord into a dark sword. Without its master, the demon golems stood as motionless as statues for centuries. But, now the golems are active again and threatening peace. The only one who can help you now is . . . the evil overlord! Sell him your soul and he'll grant you tremendous power, but you'll lose more control over your own body each time you use it. Still, can you face the horror of the World Eaters without it? ESRB Rated RP for Rating Pending
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Soul Nomad
- Video Game: 0 pages (2007-09-25)
- Platforms: PlayStation2
- Publisher: KOEI Corp
- Label: KOEI Corp
- Studio: KOEI Corp
- Our Recommended Age: 12 - 20 years
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 8 reviews
- Sales Rank in Video Games: #8131
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Summary: NIS delivers another gem covered in grime... 2008-10-22
Comment: NIS has never been my favorite company. Oh, they make good games, but they're generally too lazy to actually put forth the effort needed to polish them into GREAT games.
Soul Nomad is one such game. It has a great story, unique and engaging with twists and turns... now, if they had put as much effort into producing the game as they did in the script, maybe it would be better.
First and foremost, most cut scenes are against a brown map with sprites shifting between maybe half a dozen pre-programmed poses while they chat with one another. Most of the rest of the cut scenes are single pictures (well-drawn, but static nonetheless) showing no movement or interaction of the characters at all, just voices.
The battle system is quite fun. It reminds me of Advance Wars, where one squad engages another and they duke it out until one or the other is defeated. Each "squad" is placed in a "room" with a maximum occupancy of 9. The process of getting rooms is random, as is the number of slots in each one. While there is a way to control which room you get and how many slots it has, the process is time-consuming and repetitive.
There are numerous classes, both humans and creatures. However, the only way to make these units really strong is to train them from level 1, which is nigh impossible at later parts of the game. If you boost their levels when you purchase them, you sacrifice 1/3 of their power just to get them to the same level everyone else is at. It's a lose-lose situation.
Truly, Soul Nomad is a GOOD game, but NIS failed to put forth the effort into making it the AWESOME game it could have been. Don't get me wrong, however, it is still a game worth playing. Just keep in mind that it's not what it could have been.
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Summary: A Gem Trapped in a Pit of Garbage 2008-03-17
Comment: I feel sorry for Soul Nomad as a game that has one of the better stories of any JRPGs to come out in the past couple years; but in the end comes off feeling very lazily designed. Unfortunately the bad outweighs the good.
It has an excellent story as far as JRPGs are concerned, the characters are quite likable and will grow on you. My major qualm being is that they spent no time developing cut scenes for the game... The vast vast majority of cut scenes will take place on a brown paper map of the world you are exploring with the characters cycling through the 4 or 5 motions they bothered to draw for them. This basically renders every cutscene completely uninteresting to watch as they didn't even bother to place the characters in different environments and the character sprites rarely interact with each other, opting to just stand there alternating between stances.
The combat system is similar to Advance Wars, which is basically strategy RPG except instead of moving around single characters you move around squads of people. You control who is in which squad by placing units that you are either given or create through the character creation screen.
Each squad is placed in a seperate "room" which you have a limited number of. There are many different types of rooms with different bonuses and different number of slots available to place squad members (max of 9 slots). Of course you're going to want to have the most slots you can have and the room with the best bonus, but unfortunately they decided to make room creation incredibly time consuming and completely uninteresting. Rooms are generated COMPLETELY AT RANDOM, you have NO CONTROL over what they generate. That means if you want a particular room with a particular number of spots you can spend literally HOURS, yes HOURS, mashing X while the game randomly generates rooms until the one you want pops up.
Once again though...the story is really involved and has so many plots twists and good characters that it really makes me sad the developer chose to do such a great injustice to the game by packaging it in what I can only describe as garbage. Please show love for your game and show love to your buyers by at least TRYING.
I clocked in at a little over 40 hours on my first play through and will being playing it again for the demon story line. Of those 40 hours I am sad to admit that about 5 of those hours was spent just mashing X trying to get a particular room to generate...
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Summary: Ogre Battle with more balance issues 2008-03-09
Comment: Soul nomad at its heart is Ogre Tactics, each unit is made up of members with particular strengths and weaknesses. They each also have a preface for whom they target, archers, for example, prefer clerics. This means in your unit of 1-9 characters, the archer will mostly target the cleric. This creates a distinct disadvantage to trying to have a unit of archers and archers alone, as in one attack, they may all target the cleric, leaving the rest of the enemy unit unharmed.
Each unit must be placed on a grid, the grids each have their own random battles you can fight to power up the grid. These battles tend to be random in the strengths of the enemy and how easy they are to over come. Each grid also has their own unique abilities, which gives more strategy, but the end result is often choosing the strongest, or choosing the one that gives the most additional benefits outside of battle (money or gold).
All in all, its a fun game, but the lack of unit balance will eventually wear you down. Being able to only actually have 5 unit types lead gets very annoying very fast, and some units seem like weaker versions of other units, unless they're leading. The end result tends to be most leaders don't represent the troop, they just represent itself, and all other members of the unit are appendages.The game doesn't compliment itself to looking at units over all.
The different units in a team have different power moves that can be performed. While balance wise they're fine, the graphics typically took way to long, or were way to Naruto-ish.
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Summary: Graphically Impaired, But Overall Great! 2008-01-08
Comment: I want to start by saying that I am in no way a person who thinks great, shiny graphics are the most important part of a game, or of any gameplay experience. I must say, though, that Soul Nomad left me feeling like the creators just got a little lazy in the graphic department. Needless to say they make up for it everywhere else, but it is just hard to settle in to find the full goodness of the game; the graphics just kind of put you off. If you can make it passed that, you'll be treated to a very interesting system based around rooms, which can be equipped with various "decorations" to alter the bonuses given to your party in battles. The combat itself is a kind of combination of Ogre Battle and Disgaea that is at first glance confusing but will soon having you feeling like it is simple. That's not to say it's not deep, though. The story-telling style and scenarios will be very familiar to long-time fans of Nippon-Ichi games; the characters and style of humor are very similar. This is not a bad thing, as most of their other games are great. To sum it up, this is definitely worth playing, but I would wait until you can find it for a lower price (but don't wait too long; I have a feeling that once it disappears it will cost a fortune to buy a copy, if you can even track one down).
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Summary: A welcome surprise 2007-10-17
Comment: I didn't really expect much from Soul Nomad, but upon playing it, I was pleasently surprised. Taking strategy role playing to a more fun level, Soul Nomad changes things up from the Disgaea formula by shifting playing perspectives and the battle system. This time around, you battle in a 2-D side scrolling/isometric plane that features some well drawn sprites and effects. The battle system itself is a change of pace, but definitely for the better, and it actually winds up being pretty fun. The only real downsides to Soul Nomad are some slight graphical glitches and the annoying quality of the randomly generated rooms, which end up causing more difficulty than they're worth. That aside, everything else about Soul Nomad makes it a winner: an engaging and more than entertaining story with some downright hilarious dialogue, more than solid voice acting and music, and a lengthy enough quest that helps you get the most out of the game. All in all, Soul Nomad is more than worth checking out for strategy RPG fans and Disgaea fans alike; both of which will definitely find something to enjoy here.
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