• 1 Player

• RPG

• 2 Discs

• Stunning 3D Graphics with manual camera control

• Intelligent, clever puzzles

The game starts off the same way as the original one - three seperate people with seperate quests. Atfer going through the intro, there isn't any indication that anything is wrong. Lilka's choice of weapon is a little odd and Ashley and Brad both use ARMS. OK, but I prefer the combo of Rudy Cecelia and Jack from WA. Another problem is that you have to wait to use the ARMS and magic until you reach a certain force point. Although this eliminates MP, it gets really annoying having to wait to cast Ice on a fire creature when the same thing blasts me with a fire attack. Same problem with the ARMS - have to wait until the FP is high enough. This creates problems when you get into a tough battle and have to wait a few turns to use the big guns - and the critter hits you with confusion, sleep, et al while waiting.

The idea of personal skills is great - get immune to all kinds of stuff, and power up your character at the same time.

The force skills attained by the characters are OK, but some of them are a waste. Ashley's Access is a powerful force, but you have to be at condition green to use it, and I'm usually too busy pounding away with the ARMS to really use it. Tim's FP shift is another more or less useless force skill.

Searching for items it OK, but searching for cities and dungeons seems to be more annoying than anything else.

There aren't as many magic spells for Lilka in WA 2 that there is for Celilia in the Orginial WA. The powered up versions of the simple magic in WA 2 aren't really worth the effort to find them

The graphics in WA 2 are better than the orginal one, but I don't worry about graphics too much, preferring gameplay and fun over graphics.

Don't get me wrong - this is a good game overall There are a lot of little things that make this a good, as opposed to great, game. I do recommend it, but rent it first! =)

6 of 6 found the following review helpful:


Wild ignition or false start?  May 27, 2000
As a fan of the original game I couldn't believe it when I found a copy of this at my local importer. Feeling proud that I had secured a copy of this game I returned home and began to play. At first the game seemed all to similar to the previous version. The menu system in battle and on the world map and gaming fields were pretty indifferent. But this isn't a fault, the game was liked because of the simple and easy to follow menu. What I did notice this time around was the way the graphics in-game had been improved. Instead of being very blocky and ugly they were smooth and curved. The characters as usual in Rpg's had changed and the game environment had moved on from the last version. The magic rules have changed as well. Instead of needing Magic Points to cast spells, this time you need so many force points. While they don't sound that different here in battle you notice the difference immediately. You see the force points don't decrease unless you use a characters force skill, meaning that in theory battles are very simple because you'll never be able to stop using magic. But when you need to start using force skills the points soon begin to deplete and unless care is taken with the points you are granted the battle is soon turned against you.

However there are still some problems that have been in existence since the last game. One of the major ones is the way that if you encounter a new enemy for the first few times, you will find that it is almost impossible to run away until you take your three controllable characters up levels. Also the map system seems needlessly complicated, this time whenever you need to visit a new town or ruin you will have to find it by using a tiny radar this means that you can end up spending ages going around in circles as you try to discover which way to go. This arouses the fear that many gamers will think that it is pointless continuing and boycott the game. This would be shame as the game itself is very good and provided you stick with it and persevere about the faults you will find decent enjoyment here.

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An above average RPG title  Jun 16, 2000
Wonderful graphics, A few puzzles, some interesting battle methods and quite importantly the ability to have the computer auto-fight against those annoyingly weak but ever present 1st level monsters that show up in any game to annoy an umpteenth level super power.

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