• Konami Role Playing Game

• Rare and Hard to Find

You are a monster tamer, in the tradition of your father. You must make your way deeper and deeper into the mysterious tower near town, to find fortune and achieve your destiny. Each trip into the tower puts you at the beginning -- but your animals retain their skills. You also can keep weapons and other items you find, but if you die, they are lost.

It is at least worth a rental if not a buy. I give it five stars because it kept me very entertained, and I have been disenchanted with most of the SquareSoft games lately. This really picked my spirits up. If you don't mind a bit of repetition, you might not find this so bad.

You are also given quests to find objects in the tower, as well as the opportunity to build up and improve almost every building in your village. Perhaps the best, and most amusing part, is how several women vie for your attentions, and you have to find the particular way to make them fall for you.

Not necessarily replayable, but great for at least a test drive.

19 of 23 found the following review helpful:


An old-school RPG which forces old-school RPG patience.  Nov 16, 1999
When Konami first came out with this game, the main selling point was its monster breeding system. While I admit that this and the 'relationships' part of the game interested me, I found that the main course of the game, the dungeon, too tiring for me.

While I won't explain the whole game, the one crucial difference with this RPG and others is the character level resets to 1 every time you enmter the tower... and you must start from the 1st floor EVERY TIME. Now it's fine when you're just starting out, but when you've reached the point in the game where you have to go past the 15th floor to even start building experience for your monsters, it quickly becomes a tiring expereince. There's nothing like taking 4 hours to reach the 18th floor and then dying because you end up in the middle of a monster trap.

In addition to this, one can only take 5 items (including the maximum of 2 monsters) into the dungeon, so you simply can't carry a lot of HP or MP (points which your monsters expend by simply EXISTING) replenishers to help you on your quest. It assumes that you will find what you need along the way. This also tries one's patience, becaouse you can never be sure when you will find an item you need: for instance, there is one type of fruit that allows you to leave the dungeon w/o losing all your items; this would be fine if you had more items to take into the dungeon, or if the dungeon didn't randomly change every time you played, but because of the conditions, if you want to be effective, you have to take the chance that you will find that type of fruit along the way so you can stuff one more MP berry into your pack. Folks, this requires patience. At least FF gives you pages of spots to put your items in.

All in all though, if you're looking for a game that allows you to create some interesting monsters, or have some funny situations with female NPCs, this game is good. However, if you are looking for something to entertain or dazzle you for 60+ hours, I would hold off getting this 'monster game.' Although I don't expect FF7 or 8 RPG's from every company, I do expect RPG's to not bore an average RPG fan. If I want tedious, I can always pull out the old 8-bit systems from the closet.

6 of 6 found the following review helpful:


A great game for RPG players.  Jul 24, 2000
This is a great game if your looking for a game that is tough to beat if you beat all your games quite fast. I have been playing this game for about 126 hours 56 minutes 37 seconds of playing time and i havent beat it yet. I have only made it to the thirtieth floor and I die really fast. This game is very intriguing and challenging if you dont use the cheats like infinate life and money. It is fun because you have to build up your city and train you monsters. Sometimes this gets annoying because I have a creature called a Picket and he is really stupid because he always runs off and kills himself. but once you get to the 20th floor, you want to run away or you Kewne or whatever will die. This game is a big struggle at first because you get clobbered on the 3 floor so you should escape from the tower or you will lose all your items that you worked so hard for. I had to restart the game 5 times just to get a good start. Sometimes I died on the second floor when I just started the game so I tried to do the first floor and Kewne died in a couple of hits. so I restarted again and tried the same thing over again, but I died on the second floor again and i did that 5 times then i got the game started so i could slowly advance the floors in the tower. The graphics are bad but when you play the game a lot, you will get used to them. The music I thought was OK but sometimes it got annoying. I like expanding Koh's house so you can put lots of stuff in it like a TV, lights, washing machines, a weird glob and it is fun to find where the safe is hidden, and to put all your stuff in it. I like to take in lots of familiars or else you might lose on the 15 floor. I like it since it takes me 2 hours to do 15 floors. I like the random floor changings because you might have a floor that is one gigantic room or a pee-wee floor with 2 rooms and a small hallway. I like to fuse creatures because you can have a worthless pulunpa that can turn into a good pulunpa that can heal you.

5 of 5 found the following review helpful:


Sim City meets Zelda  Dec 27, 2000 By Adrian
Azure Dreams is a great game that's suitable for any RPG lover. While at first I thought it was going to be some stupid Pokemon clone, it turned out to be something totally different. If you can look past the below-average graphics, you will see a very fun and addictive game. What really hooked me was that you can build up the town and furnish your house. If you're looking for a Harvest Moon kind of game with some action, this is the game for you. Azure Dreams is a great game with near-infinite replayability and forgivable graphics. Have fun, it's worth your time! ^.^

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