Soul Nomad & The World Eaters (PlayStation 2, 2007)

In my opinion, Soul Nomad and the World Eaters is a great PS2 game, that's if you like tactics games. To me it seemed to be advertised as an RPG so I bought it on its release date and was a little disappointed when I found out it was a Tactics game, and I'm not a huge Tactics fan, but in the end I ended up loving it. It plays very nice and has a very interesting menu and battle system that is unique to only it.

One of the main selling points to me was one of the main advertising lines for the game, "Some people just aren't fit to play God." I have been waiting for a game were you can actually play on the evil side, and this game lives up to it. Though the first time through you are pretty muchly forced to play a "good" file, when you play through the second time you can be as evil as you want. So actually the game has a high replay value for that reason, because the two stories are almost totally different and the game has multiple endings.

Soul Nomad has a wonderful story (no matter which one you are playing), bright and colorful graphics, (the graphic quality is about the average of a normal Tactics game, so nothing to really complain about),a great music soundtrack, and good voice acting. The best part (to me) about the voices is that you can actually set the voices to the original Japanese voice actors and the game itself still remains in English.

As far as the bad points go, the arranging your troops in the "rooms", equipping decor, and leveling up your rooms can be rather confusing at first, but if you keep at it you'll figure it out in no time. Also the attacking part of the battle system may seem very simple (because once you begin an attack, you have no control on that group, they exchange attacks with the enemy and perform a certain attack depending upon which row you have them in), but it is very customizable.

There's also some fun things you can do, like you can choose to fight with a poster and "Hero Guy" will appear, or another fun thing to do is if you are naming a new troop member, to push the select button for a random name over and over again, they are some VERY interesting names on there...

So overall, I highly recommend you play this game especially if you like to play Tactics games. I hope you found this review useful.