![]() ![]() Although noted as a very challenging game altogether, it still received very high praise from video game critics and publications and is even Famitsu magazine's only PlayStation title to ever receive a perfect 40/40 and IGN's 9 th best RPG title of all time.Īnd so, for today's 104 th Temptation Thursdays poll, we shall focus on Ashley Riot, the main protagonist of Vagrant Story. Vagrant Story sold over 100,000 copies during its first 20 days and was the fifth best-selling PlayStation title of the month of its release. He was accused for the murder of a duke from the Valendian Parliament, and in the game, players live out his life one week leading to the incident. The story follows the life of Ashley Riot, an elite member of the Riskbreaker division of the Valendia Knights of the Peace (VKP). Sacrificing some of the player’s health, Break Arts can perform a high damage attack on an enemy.Vagrant Story is an action role-playing game developed and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation console in 2000 and was re-released in 2011 for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, and PlayStation Vita through the PlayStation Network. Break Arts are special skills learnt after repetitive use of a weapon type. Using chains, however, raises Ashley’s Risk Meter, making his attacks less precise and himself more vulnerable. These effects include inflicting status ailments on the enemy, reflecting damage, etc. The player can assign various offensive and defensive effects to buttons that need to be pressed at the right time to execute a chain. Chain Abilities allow Ashley to “chain together” consecutive hits against enemies. Magic is broken into four groups, namely defense, combat, healing and status. ![]() ![]() Gems can be attached to some grips, usually increasing the weapon’s affinity with an enemy category.Īshley can also make use of Magic, Chain Abilities and Break Arts. Each weapon can also be disassembled in workshops scattered throughout the game, and new weapons can be forged by combining blades with grips. Weapons used constantly against the same type of enemy improve in power against them. Damage in battle is calculated according to the weapon’s and the enemy’s particular strengths and weaknesses in any of these categories. Each weapon possesses, besides detailed damage statistics, parameters in one of the three categories (edged, blunt, and piercing), as well as affinity to any of the six enemy types encountered in the game. Ashley can equip a wide variety of weapons and armor made out of different materials. A wireframe sphere displays the range of the currently selected weapon and detailed statistics on different body parts of the enemies within range.Īshley does not receive experience points from defeating regular enemies he randomly gains bonuses to his attributes after defeating bosses, but in general the focus of the customization in the game is on weapons. When entering combat and attacking an enemy, the game is paused, allowing the player to choose targets and access the menu for other actions. The game runs in real time, with visible enemies and no separate battle screens. Ashley can also jump and grab ledges of higher platforms during exploration. Dungeons contain many optional rooms and environmental puzzles that mostly involve pushing, destroying, and re-arranging different types of crates to access higher areas. The game focuses on exploration of large, complex dungeon-like areas and combat there are no “friendly” areas, NPC interaction, or monetary system. The entire game (including the numerous cutscenes that advance the plot) is rendered in 3D. Vagrant Story is a role-playing game with several distinguishing characteristics. However Ashley is not the only person interested in the city, and other factions of the government, including parliament assigned Knights of the Crimson Blade and other VKP agents are pursuing their own agenda. The events at the manor have sent Ashley on a quest to get to the bottom of events, and travel into the catacombs that lead to the destroyed, yet magical city of Leá Monde. A cult of religious fanatics known as Müllenkamp and their leader Sydney Losstarot have seized the manor of Duke Bardorba of Valendia Kingdom. Ashley Riot is a Riskbreaker, an elite agent for the Valendia Knights of Peace (VKP) who is investigating some strange occurrences. Valendia is a land that had undergone civil war, the end of which had birthed the parliament and several organizations to control the balance of power. ![]()
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