Spotlight: Reviews
Here you will find in-depth reviews of games and soundtracks. The rating system is a percentage one for the games and a simple "out of ten" evaluation for soundtracks. We tried several forms of ratings in the past, but the percentage rating proved to be the best ones. Here at rpg-o-mania, we try to utilize the full range of the rating. Games are generally considered to be good from 60% onwards; game with more than 80% rating receive a "rpg-o-mania classic", an award for being excellent.
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Spotlight: Game review
| Game | Score |
|---|---|
| Dragon Quest XI | 95% |
| Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen | 85% |
| Evoland 2 | 82% / 0% |
| Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles | 79% |
| Final Fantasy VI | 82% |
| Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac age | 78%* |
| Grandia | 81% |
| Grandia II | 79% |
| Grandia III | 72% |
| Grandia HD Collection | 79% |
| Heroes of Shaola | 59% |
| I am Setsuna | 80% |
| Lost Sphear | 70% |
| Lunar Legend | 63% |
| Lunar: Eternal Blue Complete | 90% |
| Octopath Traveler | 75% |
| Phantasy Star | 70% |
| Pokemon Shield | 85% |
| Radiata Stories | 80% |
| Secret of Mana | 80% |
| Secret of Mana (Remake) | 80% |
| Shining Force | 85% |
| Star Ocean: The 2nd story | 74% |
| Star Ocean: Till the end of time | 88% |
| Suikoden III | 87% |
| Suikoden IV | 76% |
| Suikoden V | 78% |
| Tales of Symphonia | 79% |
| Terranigma | 83% |
| The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim | 90% |
| Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap | 83% |
| Xenoblade Chronicles 2 | 84% |
| Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana | 81% |
| Zelda: Link's Awakening | 81% |
| Zelda: Twilight Princess | 91% |
* Ratings with a star indicate that I did not finish the game prior to writing the review.
Spotlight: Vintage game review
These reviews have been written in a short time period from late 2000 until spring 2001, when this page was calles RPG WorldWide and later on RPG Xanadu. I originally lost the reviews on a harddisk crash in late 2001, but thanks to archive.org, I was able to resurface them.
| Game | Score |
|---|---|
| Chrono Trigger | 110% / 88% |
| Final Fantasy VII | 90% |
| Trials of Mana | 95% |
| Shining Force 2 | 90% |
| Suikoden | 85% |
| Suikoden 2 | 90% |
Consoles
These are the abbreviated consoles. "Red" indicates the version the game has been tested on. Please note that many of these games have been released on many platforms in some sort of collections, I tried to state only the systems the game has been released as a single game or a prominent part of a rerelease.
| Abbreviation | Console |
|---|---|
| Sega Dreamcast | |
| Nintendo Gameboy Advance | |
| Nintendo GameCube | |
| Nintendo DS | |
| Nintendo Switch | |
| Any personal computer (Windows, Mac) | |
| Sony PlayStation | |
| Sony PlayStation 2 | |
| Sony PlayStation 3 | |
| Sony PlayStation 4 | |
| Sony PlayStation Vita | |
| Sega Saturn | |
| Sega Meag Drive (Genesis) | |
| Sega Master System | |
| Super Nintendo Entertainment System | |
| Nintendo Wii | |
| Nintendo WIIU | |
| Microsoft XBox 360 | |
| Microsoft XBox One |