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Magna Carta: Crimson Stigmata (2004)

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MC Intro, ripped by me & encoded for high quality.
Magna Carta for the PlayStation 2 is a great RPG that deserves more respect. I'm ripping videos of this, so others can experience it w/out the difficult battle system & long load times.

Review: http://tinyurl.com/nab4v6j

The Good: Well-developed cast of characters keeps the story interesting; lengthy campaign will keep you busy for 40 hours or more; good music (other than the horrendous title song); bright, colorful environments & detailed, if rather garish, character design.
The Bad: Extremely linear campaign feels restrictive at times; terrible voice acting; fixed camera angles often give you an awkward view of the action.

The Final Fantasy series has been on somewhat of a break for the past 4 years, giving other companies plenty of opportunity to try to grab a piece of the console role-playing market while the juggernaut franchise from Square Enix lies dormant. Series like Shadow Hearts & DDS have all put their own unique spins on the genre while simultaneously delivering the basic story-driven, stat-building gameplay that role-playing veterans crave. Magna Carta: Tears of Blood attempts to do the same, & for the most part it succeeds, thanks to a compelling story, interesting characters, & a unique battle system.

Magna Carta: Tears of Blood takes place in the world of Efferia, where 2 races, the humans & the Yason, are locked in a bitter struggle for control of the l&. The humans & the Yason are pretty much the same. The Yason are a bit more in tune with nature, & they have strange-looking ears, but functionally there isn't much of a difference between the two races. You control a hotheaded transvestite named Calintz, who is the captain of a group of mercenaries known as the Tears of Blood. The game picks up the story just as the humans launch a massive attack on the Yason in an attempt to end the war once & for all. The Tears of Blood join the effort, but the attack is foiled by the mysterious Queen Amilia of the Yason. As the Tears of Blood retreat, Calintz meets a strange amnesic girl named Reith, who has mystical healing powers beyond anything anyone has seen.

The two strike up an awkward & unrequited romance that carries the story through the adventure of trying to figure out who Reith is, where her powers came from, & how she can help bring peace to the world of Efferia. The story is full of mysticism & unexplained coincidences, but there are also plenty of political undertones as well. The cast of characters is bizarre, but interesting & well developed. It starts out a bit slow, but there's plenty of story here to hold your interest throughout the game. The story doesn't pull any punches, either, taking on heavier subjects like death & betrayal, while throwing in plenty of interesting plot twists to keep you guessing.

The biggest problem with the story is that the progression is so linear that it feels restrictive. There's no opportunity to stray off the path, because if you do a character will stop you & tell you to go another way. There are a few side quests you can pick up on, but for the most part you'll just be walking a narrow path from point A to point B. It feels like you're just going through the motions as the game dictates, rather than embarking on an epic quest of your own volition.

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Final score: 7.1/10

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