The third installment in the Summon Night series (Summon Night and Summon Night 2 appeared on PlayStation), the game casts players in the role of boy or a girl (Rexx or Aty) who is mentored by a military hero, hones his/her skill with the blade, and sets out on a big adventure. The game's quest is driven forward by anime-style (mostly still) cutscenes with full voice-over narration, while battles use the Quest/Square-style isometric strategy map setup. The PlayStation 2 release improves over its predecessor with more elaborate magic animations, voice content and an overall better looking graphic presentation.
The plot has a "teacher/student" theme. The protagonist is a private tutor that goes in a trip with a new student in a ship that suddenly gets attacked by pirates. The two end up in a mysterious Island where many summon beasts live freely. They are unable to leave at first, but eventually become friends with the inhabitants. However, this doesn’t last long as they have to fight against the army and the secret organization behind the Island creation. During this battle, the protagonist find a mysterious sword that gives him many powers and change his appearance dramatically, but at a great cost. The story is set about 20 year before the original game, but there is a playable epilogue that happens after Summon Night 2.
Third game in the strategy RPG series Summon Night. You take the role of either a male or female summoner assigned to protect one of four selectable characters in a trip to a foreign land. Falling under a pirate attack you end up stranded in an unknown island, and now you, your ward and the pirates must fight their way to freedom and uncover a few secrets in the way.
The game uses a 2D isometric engine to portray the main characters in the world map as they explore each location chatting with NPCs for clues and items, and switches to a tile-based map for combat in which you arrange your party and battle against the many creatures and enemies you run into using spells, attacks and summon abilities. The game now allows you to turn yourself into a your guardian creature, which augments your abilities considerably. But using this morphed form too much has an effect on which ending you receive (as does which characters you select at the beginning of the game).
GAMEPLAY:
The game changed how summon units raise their level once again, this time the player has to give different can food to beast. Their personal preference and the food quality change how much they raise their level.
The player now has to act as a tutor to a child, the player chooses between four different character, which one with a distinct personality and a big role at the story. Player can choose what to teach their student, each option has an effect in the students abilities during battle.
Now the player can choose with type of summon he has most affinity right at the beginning, and this attribute still the same regardless of with student you choose.
The main character can unleash the power of the magic sword, getting many abilities, but this greatly affect future events as makes the value of Karma go up. The sword also activates by itself once the protagonist heath bar get completely drained.
MANUFACTURER'S DESCRIPTION:
Popular simulation RPG 3rd that further evolved the "new summons legend surrounding the sword of mystery" theme. It becomes a tutor who lives in a different world "Ryinbaumu", while raising the student to be a companion, both to wage a adventure. Student abilities and story is changed by the course content, to adopt a multi-ending. Let's enjoy the story of humanity full of excitement.
FEATURES:
- First & Third person perspectives.
- 2D graphics
- Cartoon graphics
- Medieval Fantasy & Anime themes.
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