Mana Khemia: Student Alliance
From NIS America
Mana Khemia is the spiritual sequel to the Atelier Iris series and fourth entry in the RPG series published by NIS. Mana Khemia is different from the previous Atelier Iris games in that it's a campus sim-style RPG, where you can interact with classmates and professors to complete academic quests. You play as Vayne Aurelius, a novice alchemist who was invited to attend Al Revis Academy. At the academy Vayne academy, you will meet human and not so human alchemists, and together you will solve the mysteries of alchemy. You will discover and create items, weapons, and even character stats through the use of alchemy. Everything you find in the field is used to craft items with alchemy; you can fish, hunt, dig, & search for new ingredients (over 400 items/ingredients are available) Multiplayer functions - offline co-op multiplayer (2 players); multi-cartridge multiplayer
Amazon Sales Rank: #9645 in Video Games Brand: NIS America Model: 8-126 Published on: 2009-03 Released on: 2009-03-10 ESRB Rating: Everyone 10+ Platform: Sony PSP Number of items: 1 Dimensions: .55" h x 4.20" w x 7.00" l, .20 pounds
In Mana Khemia: Student Alliance players on the PlayStation Portable experience the spiritual sequel to the Atelier Iris series in this fourth entry in the Role-playing (RPG) series published by NIS. What makes Mana Khemia: Student Alliance different from the previous Atelier Iris games in that it's a campus sim-style RPG, where you can interact with classmates and professors to complete academic quests. .caption { font-family: Verdana, Helvetica neue, Arial, serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; } ul.indent { list-style: inside disc; text-indent: -15px; } table.callout { font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1. 3em; } td.vgoverview { height: 125px; background: #9DC4D8 url(http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-page/callout-bg.png) repeat-x; border-left: 1px solid #999999; border-right: 1px solid #999999; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; padding-bottom: 10px; width: 250px; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; } Vayne Aurelius. View larger.
Loading aside, a worthwhile game Most people who play this port of the PS2 title will tell you that there's a lot of loading, and it's true. It's also somewhat buggy, as the game has frozen on me several times, especially after putting the PSP on hibernate. These are major flaws, and also major turn-offs for many gamers. If you can deal with those problems, however, you'll find a fun game with many unique features. Crafting new equipment and gaining new abilities/stats tie together in a way that is pretty fun and addictive. Battles are also enjoyable, and even though they start out simple, they get more interesting as your party grows and you can swap out members at defensive or offensive opportunities. In my mind, however, the best feature of this game is the story: getting to know the characters and having them develop through the optional free times are memorable for both humorous and heartwarming scenes. If you have patience and a PSP, and you like RPGs, you can't go wrong with this game. Good game I find this to be a great game for the portable space. If you love games where you can synthesize items, this is for you. Great for fans of Atelier games. Combat takes getting used to but it's fun. Load times happen often, but if you load part to the memory on the PSP it goes faster and it isn't as bad as reviewers say. I don't think they had the load to memory function maybe? The best part though is the synthesizing of items you can change them a lot and come up with new stuff by changing the recipes you have. This in turn opens up your stats and makes you more powerful :) It's fun. load times are horrible I bought this game because I am a sucker for any rpg game. Unfortunately I only played like three-four hours of it. It was one load screen after another, and even when it was not on a load screen, you would push a button for an action and there would be like a second of lag before you saw it executed. Combat animations would cut out. It looks pretty when standing still, but animation is not fluid. I got tired and moved the The Crinsom Gem Saga, thank god this game was waiting for me, a game that has better visuals and moves really fast even when is loading.
