[Multiplatform] The Grandia Appreciation Thread!

I played Grandia III till the start of disk 2 and suddenly... I lost interest. The game had NOTHING up for me that forced me to continue playing, really absolutely nothing. The soundtrack got worse with every area I visited (except Baccura - HUGE step down in the musical department).

The characters, while being nicely designed, turned out to be one of the most bland cast I ever saw. It is really a pity that the most interesting and charismatic ones leave your party before you know it. The character development is almost zero, the story is extremely generic and boring, the music is sub-par most of the time (I only really liked the first battle theme and a few boss themes) and since it's so goddamn linear - sporting no sidequests - I simply lost interest in this one.
Well, the game does have good aspects - the voice acting, which was extremely well done, for example - or the battle system, which was very fun until the point the enemies got really annoying, stretching the length of the battles (and probably the game itself as well) to about the double amount of what it could've been normally. The graphics are done really well, the environments are truly nice to explore, but else the game had nothing for me that I really liked.

I am so disappointed with this game. It started out really promising, I couldn't stop playing it first, I LOVED this game. But everything simply fell apart halfway through disk 1 and finally, disk 2 started really boring and uninteresting. In my eyes - and this is my humble opinion - it is the single worst Grandia ever made. I had even more fun playing Xtreme, which motivated me to continue playing at least a little. (Even though I hated most of its characters for their gross designs...) If another Grandia ever gets released, I will really consider not buying it, since there's nothing left that made the series so good and catchy for me. I thoroughly hope that GameArts works more on the story and character development next time, 'cause I really don't care that much about graphics.

Maybe I'll be able to put it into my PS2 again someday... but I really don't care.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Well, I guess the lack of interest actually made me stop since nothing good happened for so long.
Oh, and

Spoiler:

at least Miranda was a fun character to have. Alonso was a bit pimp-ish, but cool anyway. Opinions differ, natural thing. ^_^"

As soon as the first one mentioned left, the comical value of the game hit zero. =/

There's nowhere I can't reach.