Spectral Souls: RPG Strategy for the PSP

Posted on Apr 7, 2009 05:02:35 PM

Spectral Souls is a strategy RPG from developer NIS America and Idea Factory. This is the story of Neverland the alternate world. Here, the demonic lords rule over the humans. There are clashes and rebellions at frequent intervals. The war is interspersed and slowed down by the peace initiatives and talks and the civilization is brimming with a discontent ready to manifest and erupt any time.

Demonic troop’s burn down several villages and the Seven Year War revolution kicks off. The war kicks off with a bang taking players through various twists and dark themes.

The human fighters form the Reformed Simba Empire and the Neverland Army features the demons. You as a player can be a part of any of the two armies or even the third peace loving Rozess Liberation Army.

Any point during the game allows players to switch between the teams. As you complete an event with a particular army, you have the option of eliminating battles for the other sides. As with the standard RPG games, you can go around the towns in order to prep up your characters. Towns feature a host of item shops, guilds and workshops. Item shops sell a host of things including accessories, healing items, armour and weapon.

Battle involves choosing people who are going to fight with you and adjust to the various conditions in order to succeed in a mission. Battle system revolves around the Hold and the Charge skills. For stronger attacks, it is possible to combine skills too. Load times are slow and this is one of the biggest drawbacks in the game. You will find the visuals are similar to other games from Idea Factory, like Generation of Chaos IV, and on the all, aside from a few certain attacks, are not anything special.  Soundtrack is impressive enough but not exceptional.

Though Spectral Souls is a game with a good storyline and game play, the effect is severely undermined by UMD technical difficulties. With better load times, this game could have created quite an impact. Those who have all the time in the world to sit and wait for the game to load at every stage can try this RPG game on their PlayStation Portable.

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