PSP User Reviews

It took me a while to get into it because of the tone and because perhaps I had overly high expectations for what it ultimately turned out to be, but oh well, it's a decent SRPG, quite well done and accessible even though on many occasions you'll fail 95% of the time and get hit with 5%.

Definitely better than I expected! Really enjoyed the story, only downside was potentially the grinding necessary to tackle some of the later stages and lack of diversity when it came to ability types.

Excelente história,uma ótima pedida pra quem gosta de RPG's táticos. Personagens carismáticos, gameplay fluída e belos gráficos. Em alguns momentos fica nítida a referência a senhor dos anéis e final fantasy. Minha única crítica fica no roteiro que apesar de ser muito bom as vezes acaba ficando muito repetitivo. Você enfrenta o mesmo Boss as vezes em três ou até quatro cenários. O que acaba ficando repetitivo. E a trilha sonora do game, que também num contexto geral acaba sendo boa. Mas repetitiva e pobre. Mas num contexto geral, mesmo com os problemas,acaba se tornando um game indispensável pra quem gosta do gênero.

It'sa crime that this game hasn't been remastered for another platform or gotten the sequel treatment.

Jeanne d'Arc is a fantastic tactical RPG that blends French history, and fantasy together. And a game people have been asking for a reappearance, be it on PS Plus, or as a remake, and it's hard to disagree with them. The tactical depth in this game puts it on par with titans of the genre, like FF Tactics and Fire Emblem. There is an excellent attention to detail with the English voice acting, where the French characters have good French accents (despite being voiced by American actors), and the English characters having solid English accents. And it uses excellent quality animated cutscenes. While not wholly original in terms of gameplay, it manages to elevate familiar mechanics to new heights. A must buy for strategy game lovers.

Pros: You can mix different abilities for the characters, making some very unlikely combinations. The mechanic of Transform is pretty cool and turn some characters into a killing machine. Use of Cartoons for the story telling is amazing. Combining Skills system is very fun and makes you want to discover all recipes. Cons: Every match have a turn limit. 20 for standard matches and could get to 40 for some story matches. There is no class assignmnet like FFT or Tactics Ogre. The world stages have predefined levels but there is no way to check what is the level match before entering it. Details: It's a fun and innovative game, but things like limiting the turns on all matches deeply hinders the fun, and it's even worse on end game. In some matches you can be under level and even if you manage through strategy to keep alive, you will not have enough time to kill everyone and you lose the match. Some of the story of the game is told through Cartoons instead of using ingame animation. This idea was great and the Cartoons are very well made and help to give more life to every character. Regarding Stages, if you join a match and you are under 10 levels, you will need to reload. Winning would be very very hard because not only you are underlevel, but you will only have 20 turns to finish. So even if you have strategy to keep alive and hitting the enemy slowly, you will eventually run out of time.

Story of this game is absolutely the best part of it. At first the game is really nothing special and it's kinda boring. But suddenly everything is starting to get very interesting and to be honest I didn't expect that at all. For me it was little bit to long and I highly recommend using cheats to speed up the grind for a little. Gameplay isn't really something extraordinary... It's very simple and we've all seen it thousands times before... But the story is really worth everything! Characters are interesting and unique and the plot is just amazing... A lot of memorable moments... Story telling at its finest! Only if gameplay would be just a little bit more unique and if it could have full voice acting Jeanne D'arc could be really 10/10 game!

This is the best JRPG for the system. Much better than any other game. Of course, is a tactical JRPG, but you need to give it a try.

Very unique in its own perspective and an amazing game on the PSP nonetheless. The game is very entertaining, has an engaging plot and becomes easily very addictive.

One of the best games on PSP so happy I can download it on my Vita! I’ve played over 60 hours on 3 different files. Just so much characters, weapons and attacks to find and use!

One of the shining gems of the PSP era. A great take on the SRPG genre and fills the void for a true successor of final fantasy tactics.

I'm about 15 hours in and the game isn't throwing enough new content to keep me interested in terms of gameplay side of things so here's my thoughts so far... the UI is clunky when combining skills that you find throughout the game, it's practically mandatory to do so in order to get the optimal build for the next mission unless you want to risk failing and losing all your progress in the mission and to keep using the few abilities that you are able to get from drops. There's no way to simply select the menu recipes you've unlocked to just consume the items for the recipe. It would've been much more straightforward if the enemies dropped the items you needed to progress directly instead of this poorly designed UI that you're expected to dredge through between missions (i.e. 1/3 of the game). I kinda feel like the armband ability is pretty unbalanced as it allows characters with this ability to just sweep the battlefield of enemies and accumulate tons of EXP so i end up trying to avoid using it to not leave the 5 or so other characters in the dust since they are needed to carry your armband wielding characters and to leave openings for chain kills. It's like the game wants to punish you indirectly for relying on these character's abilities too much. There's a variety of different character classes to mix and match in your party but you'll find that the characters you are able to use don't really change your strategy much since you'll end up using most of the ones you have available to you anyways since the number of characters you are able to use per mission increases, maybe later on there'll be more available characters so that this doesn't remain the case. There also isn't much incentive to take risks besides the turn limit which hasn't really become an issue as of yet, there has been one time so far where i was at risk of failing due to the turn limit but that could've been just because i wanted to clear the level of enemies first. If the game becomes more difficult later on i'd bump my score to a 6. As long as you keep your characters in formation there is little risk of one dying, the enemies will only focus down one of your characters if they are separated from the formation. Is the game fun? ehhh it's alright. It's engaging at the very least. the game must've been good for 2007 but i don't think it holds up in 2019. Is the story good? There were some interesting parallels between the first recurring antagonist and the protagonist but i am unsure if this is intentional and would be explored in more detail later, the main big bad guy seems to be the evil dark lord archetype that does evil for the sake of accumulating power except it's under the guise of a possessed child *evil yawn*. Other than that nothing exciting has happened so far, it's just been a power fantasy where the protagonist goes around slaughtering English soldiers and demons with minimal effort. her development as a character is yet to be seen as she hasn't seemed to learn anything beyond "English = bad guys" though there could be the potential for more interesting interactions as the protagonist is so driven to killing without mercy that she may end up slipping towards being a sort of "war lord" and end up killing the wrong people. The music is heavily recycled so that part of the experience is not worth mentioning. the graphics and character portraits are not bad especially for the psp.

I enjoyed this game very much. It was very entertaining for the most part. There were times that it felt like it drug on a bit, and the story is strange, but the overall effect was an enjoyable game that was worth what I paid for it.

You may have noticed the words "Enemy phase" in some screenshots of this game. That is because there is no queue to be found, just your turn and the enemy's turn.

A very satisfying turn-based JRPG all-around. The game starts out very slow, but after a few stages both the story and the gameplay pick up. The characters are for the most part interesting, and you feel for the characters when something bad happens to them. The gameplay can get repetitive at times, but the number of characters, variety of skills and gear, and bonus stages keep the gameplay interesting. The only major weaknesses in the game are the relatively low replay value and the fact that some characters are a pain to use and level up.

Jeanne d'Arc was a relatively early PSP release, and an interesting one too. The story may have been borrowed from the past, but there's a cool fantasy twist on it, and the traditionally animated cutscenes are fun to watch. The gameplay is basically what you would see in classic tactical RPGs, but I have to emphasize how polished the mechanics are. The way each character's unique ability fits in with one another really adds to the strategy element. You just have to try this out for yourself. However, it is a little too "beginner friendly", as your team usually has the upper hand in most fights to carry you through the game. So, if you're looking for a punishing challenge, you should look somewhere else. Presentation-wise, everything from the colourful visuals to the dramatic voice acting is very high quality. It's a great piece of work, so I recommend picking this up if you're into a unique story driven tactical RPG game.

This is a great tactical RPG game. The main advantage is deep turn-based combat, where you need to use any of your troops and skills wisely, the battles have many nuances. The story is decent though of course it has little in common with real history. The characters are memorable, the dialogues are lame sometimes. The anime cutscenes are nice. Also the game has pretty graphics and addictive gameplay.

Not impressed. The graphics are great for PSP, and I love me some turn-based RPGs. However, what's with the super-archaic turn structure? Super slow heavily-armored knights get to move just as many times as my super fast thief guy (with the exception of Jeanne's special ability, which will have her skipping all over the entire level, killing 4-5 guys in a single turn)? Spells and skills don't have to charge at all? Every single one of my units gets to move before every single one of their units does? Forgive me for making the comparison, but this is nowhere near the strategy level of Disgaea or Final Fantasy Tactics. It feels like a beginner's introduction into turn-based games (which never needed an introduction). The whole point of mixing which team moves when (one of mine goes, one of theirs goes, 2 of mine go, etc etc) is to give it a vaguely real-time feel. This game feels like the enemy stands there waiting for all my people to move and attack, until finally asking "is it my turn now?" Production values are very high (liberties with the story aside), and you can tell it was well-thought out and executed, but given the cons I listed above and the stupidly arbitrary mission-success requirements (ie you have to "escape" your enemies by making it to one edge of the map, but you can still fail even if you kill them all), I will probably never end up playing it again.

The most awesome game on PSP, period. Don't believe those who say it's not as good as Final Fantasy Tactics, as it is in fact much better! But don't take my word for it... Quick question: What do God Of War, MGS, GTA, Final Fantasy, and all the other games that are rated higher than this one have in common? Answer: All of them are part of a franchise that was already massively successful, before a new episode was ported to the PSP. As one of the few people who tried the PSP versions of the new franchise episodes with fresh eyes, from not having played almost any of the previous instances from these series on any other platform, I can't help but find that scores are massively biased. God Of War, GTA, FFVII, Persona 3? Meh. MGS? Will never come close as its first instalment on PS1. The only title from an existing franchise actually worth its place around the top on PSP is Ridge Racer. If critics were actually objective, all the others would be much lower rated. But let's also compare with non franchise games: Lumines better than Jeanne D'Arc? Not a chance. The Lumines guys haven't spent 10% of the development time that went into Jeanne D'Arc, and, as addictive as the game may be to some, it shows. Siphon Filter: very good game, which deserves a lot of credit for managing to be highly playable despite Sony's idiotic lack of insight with regards to the second analog stick. But still a bit too predictable and not as polished. And then you get all the stuff like Patapon, LocoRoco, LittleBigPlanet, etc., that tries so hard that it actually gets into the way of the gameplay. Sorry, but this game is miles above the rest, graphically, story-wise and in terms of playability and, what matters most, enjoyment for players. Truly of a class of its own!

Truly a sleeper hit I could easily have missed, if you enjoy tactical fantasy games this is a must play. The theme might seem off-putting but it is actually well handled from a fantasy perspective. From a historical perspective there are someserious liberties taken, but there is just enough true history to make this fairytale a great story and a lot of fun. Graphics and sound are quite impressive to boot.