Friday, October 19, 2007

Legend of Heroes VI: Sora no Kiseki

英雄伝説VI 空の軌跡

I'm very very very busy this week. I have to repair the street lamp, find a missing cat, collect some rare herbs, rescue someone from the Emerald Pagoda, terminate threatening monsters and the list goes on. Erm, actually I shouldn't have complaint, because these are my responsibilities as a "Bracer". We belong to a guild of adventurers, who commits to help and protect people, by fighting monsters and instill peace.

I'm Estelle Bright, still under training to be a full-fledge Bracer, like my dad.

Ok, back to reality. Actually I'm addicted to this Japanese RPG by Falcom called Legend of Heroes VI: Sora no Kiseki (The Trail of the Sky??). Someone eeevil has installed this game in my PC and made me addicted. XD

Since the Final Fantasy series (VII & VIII), I have not played RPG game for a long time. I immediately fall in love with this one. Due to the "page-turning" story line, beautiful graphics, not too complicated controls, and the musics were even released as OST.

The main characters are Estelle Bright and her adopted brother Joshua Bright. Joshua was abandoned for some reasons, which will only be revealed till the end of the game I guess. Sometimes, the other characters might join in your group during battles depending on the story line.

Estelle Bright, Joshua Bright, Olivier Lenheim, Scherazard Harvey

Tita Russell, Agate Crosner, Zin Vathek, Klose Rinz

Cassius Bright (Estelle's Dad), Nial Barns, Dorothy Hyatt, Doctor Russell, Colonel Richard

The characters are in chibi form in the gameplay, really cute. Some screen shots taken:

Character Status Screen

The most characters you can control at one time is 4.

The dialogs of the characters are displayed with their images of different expressions.

There are even emoticons throughout the gameplay.

Battle Screen

When the CP bar reached 100, the character can use the S Attack, something like Limit Break in FFVIII.

Treasure Chests may contain potions, equipment or monsters.

A player from Gamefaqs has rated a 10/10 for this RPG.

This game was released in Japan in June 2004, and known as Sora no Kiseki First Chapter (FC). Later on, Sora no Kiseki Second Chapter (SC) was released in March 2006, and Sora no Kiseki The 3rd was just released in June this year. So far only having Japanese & Chinese versions. However, there is a translation project going on of the English Version.

FC Theme Song: Hoshi no Arika (星の在処)



Opening movie of FC followed by SC:




Time to play game~~ ┌(^。^)┘♪└(^。^)┐♪┌(-。-)┘

4 comments:

Simon said...

Walao eh, how many MMORPG you playing now?

@pple said...

Not playing MMORPG now. Currently addicted to Sora no Kiseki, still at First Chapter. Second Chapter is standbying...XD

Anonymous said...

i played the frist generation of sora no kiseki before the game even got a name call fc, i see the op of the sc somehow is thee similar op to mine frist generation and i said hey how come sc is like fc maybe you post it wrong but that aha i find out 1/4 of the end op i dont seem it before.

@pple said...

Hi john, thanks for commenting.
Sorry for the confusion, acutally that was a combination of the FC & SC Opening. FC ends at 3:28. The SC OP starts around 3:30.

Yup, this game was out long time ago. Lucky for me to not miss it though. XD

Currently I'm playing SC, near ending already. Heard that the translated version of 3rd is coming soon~~

 
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