Despitethe pretty stock fantasy world the game does do a decent job of introducing the factions and it was fun to playing out the initial chapters which see you ending a war between the elves and humans and uniting the nations against the coming demons. The story itself is pretty standard fair but there is some minor branching story lines where depending on what you do you initially end up in a more human or elf centric beginning. There are also a few other branching story paths in the game as well as the option to take personnel quests from party members. None of it effects the end result much but its cool that its there.
The roster of characters is pretty large though I found myself just using a few select characters throughout the game. Even when ignoring certain characters they still get XP at certain points in the game so none of my party fell to far behind the others which is good because there were parts that require you to use almost all your characters.
The story in a nutshell is pretty basic with a resurrected demon threating the world but is well done none the less. There is a subplot dealing with a changing point of view one of the main characters, an amazon from a female dominated society and her male servant (at least in my story). As the story goes on this amazon princess begins to have possible feelings for the male and in turn questions her whole view of amazon society. This story may change though as upon starting a new game you get to choose between playing as the male slave or a female elf slave.
Battles are conducted in a turn based fashion with spots for up to six party members on the bottom half of the screen and up to six enemies occupying the upper half with front and back rows. attacking on your characters turn is as easy as selecting an enemy and either doing a melee, ranged, magic or special movie attack though as expected characters in the rear cannot do melee attacks or special attacks with melee weapons.
Initially the story is just about Loren the amazon princess leaving her sheltered life to find her lost mother the queen ad her interactions with the male dominated human society as well as the elves but quickly revolves around the resurrection of a demon lord who predictably plans to take over the world and at first puts into a motion to scheme to set the human and elven nations at war with one another. The plot on the surface seems pretty clich but it actually feels surprisingly fresh as you go around and attempt to end the war and bring the two nations together.
There are many times in dialog where your character (either the human male slave or the elf female slave) must make a decision by a selection of multiple choice or respond to the various party members you pick up along the way by either a joking, friendly or forceful response (or sometimes romantic).
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