Vagrant Story (2000)

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Vagrant Story (ベイグラントストーリー, Beiguranto Sutōrī) is an action role-playing game developed and published by Square (now Square Enix) for the PlayStation video game console. The game was released in 2000, and has been re-released through the PlayStation Network for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation Vita consoles. Vagrant Story was primarily developed by the team responsible for Final Fantasy Tactics, with Yasumi Matsuno serving as producer, writer and director.
The game takes place in the fictional kingdom of Valendia and the ruined city of Leá Monde. The story centers on Ashley Riot, an elite agent known as a Riskbreaker, who must travel to Leá Monde to investigate the link between a cult leader and a senior Valendian Parliament member, Duke Bardorba. In the prologue, Ashley is blamed for murdering the duke, and the game discloses the events that happen one week before the murder.

Gameplay

Vagrant Story is unique as a console action-adventure role-playing game in that it features no shops and no player interaction with other characters; instead, the game focuses on weapon creation and modification, as well as elements of puzzle-solving and strategy. The game received critical acclaim from gaming magazines and websites.

Release Date

Feb 10, 2000

Metacritic Score

92

Rating

Play Time

40 hours or less

ESRB

Teen: Animated Violence

Interesting Facts

  • The game takes place in the fictional kingdom of Valendia and the ruined city of Leá Monde.
  • Vagrant Story is unique as a console action-adventure role-playing game in that it features no shops and no player interaction with other characters; instead, the game focuses on weapon creation and modification, as well as elements of puzzle-solving and strategy.
  • The story centers on Ashley Riot, an elite agent known as a Riskbreaker, who must travel to Leá Monde to investigate the link between a cult leader and a senior Valendian Parliament member, Duke Bardorba.
  • Weapons fall into one of three main damage types: blunt, piercing, and edged.
  • The plot of Vagrant Story, titled “The Phantom Pain”, is presented as the prelude to the “story of the wanderer”.
  • Vagrant Story is regarded as a mixture of genres, as it contains elements of role-playing in its battles and platform games when in the field map.
  • Vagrant Story was conceived during a time when most games had made the transition into three-dimensional graphics.

Mod Support

Yes

Cheats support

Yes

Number of maps

29

Third/First Person

First person and Third person

Platforms

PlayStation PlayStation 3 PS Vita PSP

Genres

AdventureRPG

Protagonist sex

Male

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