A retrospective video about the Saturn and PlayStation RPG Grandia. Arriving right in the midst of an RPG boom, Grandia had several interesting features and moments that made it memorable. Originally released in 1997 for the Saturn and 199 for the PSOne, it became available digitally on the PS3, Vita, and PSP as part of the PSOne Classics.
The Nerd Stash: “The letter scene in Grandia is a magnificent, layered early example of the game's wonderful NPC interactions, and a real tear-jerker.”
Teardown out today, November 15, all other titles available from November 21.
Been thinking of getting Teardown on Steam for Steam Deck play. Heard a lot of great reviews for it.
Nothing of interest for me. My sub is up in 2 weeks & I'll go with Essentials only for cloud saves & online. Having Extra or Premium is a waste for me seeing most games that land on the service are old that I've played already or old games I never had any interest in playing.
With one of the best combat systems ever, I would love to see this series resurrected.
And I wish the Shadow Hearts Series would return. It had one of the funniest combat systems ever in a j-rpg
i wish the damn collection would be on ps5 already.
i think the grandia series died with 3. just wasnt good. xtreme wasnt good either.
1 and 2 are the best.
Shadow hearts needs to come but also grandia collection with 1 and 2 never came to PS4. Still waiting lol till then I play the ones on the PS3 they have them all on there for 8$ each
I wish Wild Arms would return, I wish Namco would do an HD remaster or remake of the Xenosaga trilogy. I wish the Ar Tonelico trilogy was ported to PS5, I also wish Ar Nosurge and Ciel Nosurge were on PS5. I would jump for a new Grandia game. I wish SquareEnix would bring Xenogears to a modern console.
This game was pretty liberal with camera control too. A lot of other console RPGs that had camera rotation in 97/98 weren't letting the player do it manually, or they had pre-rendered backgrounds that didn't allow camera movement at all. Xenogears did, but it came later; Breath of Fire III came later too, and only allowed partial rotation, nowhere near a 360-degree full loop.
Grandia was a pretty impressive game in its era.
Fantastic RPG. Grandia 2 releasing on steam very soon too, be cool to jump back into that.
I liked the first one, loved the second one, but couldn't stand the third one.
Had this on my Saturn. Remember loving it.
Keep an eye on the Grandia Redux 3.0 project, the author is taking his time and can be fairly quiet on the update side of things but the demo is fantastic. If your gonna replay it, this is the version to try.
grandiaredux.blogspot.co.uk