Grandia III

Grandia III

released on Aug 04, 2005

Grandia III

released on Aug 04, 2005

Grandia III is a role-playing video game developed by Game Arts and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation 2 console. Set in a fantasy world where technology has allowed man to fly in magic-powered aircraft, a boy named Yuki is determined to become a great pilot like his idol, the Sky Captain Schmidt. When he and his mother encounter a girl named Alfina who has the ability to communicate with the spiritual guardians of the world, they become involved in the plot to discover the secrets of the world's past and face an evil rogue guardian named Xorn.


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I stopped playing after they fucking take away the BEST characters in the whole roster.

the cruelty of grandia 3 is that it baits you with a fantastic story hook. you're introduced miranda, a super endearing former adventurer who left her old life behind to care for her newborn son, now old enough to be taking pilot lessons. she meets up with a cool gambling fisherman guy with his own boat and a dream of charting a map of the whole world. miranda struggles with leaving her son for the first time in their lives, but embraces the chance to explore the world all the same, and sails off into the unknown with the only other interesting character in grandia 3. we never see them again.

i would have loved a game about a single mom rediscovering her youth and that sense of adventure with her gambling addict fishmonger boyfriend. instead we get her shit kid and some anime stand-in characters.

i think grandia 3 is the pinnacle of jrpg combat systems, and all it needed was one character and a world to care about to make it perfect. we could have had a classic.

Cursed art style. The character models look awful and the environments aren't much better. The English dub makes my ears bleed. WTF happened?

https://youtu.be/krbTjVulToI
will write a real review when I finish but lol this song

Grandia's semi-real time combat is refined here, and is still some of the most fun you can have playing a JRPG. It's too bad that the story, cast, and general art direction are such a massive step down from the unforgettable previous games.

me cagava de medo com a baleia voadora