GameCube User Reviews

I believe this game to be inferior to the first one albiet not majorly. Personally, i don't like the main character compared to the first game alongside the people she is involved with, in general i don't like the story even though both games barely have one. More objectively, Crystals became abundant in the second game making card management easier and they made it where enemies spawn organically on the map instead of it being instanced RNG encounters. While the latter sounds nice, in reality it "broke" the game by making it piss easy because you can just run past everything now, making card management significantly easier as you are rarely forced to expend cards unless you want to. The game also gives you free cards & currency far more than the first game did so you aren't really punished for just running past everything. In other words, the game is much less challenging than the first game (which wasn't particularly hard to begin with). The only major improvements in the second game would be the camera, the pathfinding of Independent monsters and cards now gain XP during combat instead of needing to get kills. Funnily enough, they improved on the negatives of the first game and worsened the positives of the first game at the same time, but the positives they drew back on are much more fundamental game design choices which leaves it to be a bad trade-off. Also, staying inline with this game being far less challenging, the final boss is a complete 180 degree inversion of the first game. Where the first game's final bosses were too hard and a random difficulty spike, this game's final boss is too easy, poses little danger and if you decide for some uneeded reason to cheese it, you can practically one-shot it if you use the right build. Happy medium in game difficulty too hard to find, i suppose. Overall, i do not recommend this completely mediocre game, which is a downgrade to the first one. Just play Lost Kingdoms I. As a note, i do not view 4 as a "red" or "negative" because logically it is in the Average range.

Best game ever check out the first one even better!! Don't be hater! The art and visuals are pleasing to a reasonably prudent person under gaming circumstances to that time!!

This series will go down as my favorite game series of all time, i easily logged 500+ hours onto this when i was younger, its a shame they don't make a new one.

a nice card based rpg quite better than the first one a bit boring though