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The selection of role playing games for the 360 is very slim. Other than this all you basically have is Fantasy Star Universe and Elder Scroll's Oblivion. Of these, only this one can really be compared to say a Final Fantasy type rpg. This game is rather fun, the story pretty good and the fighting rather good as well. It is turn based, using a grid system as depending on what attack you do the more squares on the grid are colored and the more enemies you damage. Works rather good and it is more fun to me than a action rpg when there are lots of characters to control. Here you can control a heck of a lot of characters, though most are going to be creatures called golems...in the end I found it easier to just use the main hero characters. The story has a youth in a magic type university accidentally awakening a creature called a Devil Golem. This Golem harvests the power of ice and is in fact called the Queen of Ice. Atsuma (the main character) must travel the lands and attempt to stop her goals and ambitions, though her actions seem to suggest she wishes Atsuma to try and stop her. If this is not bad enough she has taken Atsuma's best bud Toya as her puppet and power source. You meet other characters along with other Devil Golems and a really annoying emperor all in your quest to defeat the Queen of Ice. All in all rather good, not super difficult to play and the graphics are gorgeous, the American voices at times are a bit annoying, but overall an enjoyable albeit nothing original game.

I believe this game has some potential, but it wouldn't really be called the best RPG on the PS3. It does compare to titles such as Final Fantasy and Rouge Galaxy, but it no where near compares to games such as Oblivion and PS Universe. If you have played Final Fantasy Tactics, they have similar battle systems. It is grid based battling, where each take turns picking the characters to move and when moving them, picking where to strike on the opponents side of the grid. Much like Battleship, really, except you can see your opponents pieces, and they can see yours. The graphics aren't a big step from PS2 to PS3, or Xbox to Xbox 360, although you will find the graphics amazing if you had just switched from last gen to current gen gaming, if you own games such as Oblivion and Assassins Creed(With the incredible graphics), you will not find these graphics to be very special or even good, for that matter. If you get this game, you will probably get in about 80 hours before continuing on to a different game. You may want to be aware, if you are against homosexuals, be warned, because there is a female in this game, sort of trapped inside a males body, meaning he is a homosexual. A cross dresser, is a better word for it. And he expresses his homosexuality with pride, which does not bother me, but may offend some.