Glory of Heracles
Game » consists of 2 releases. Released Jan 18, 2010
The fifth installment in the long-running series of Greek mythylogy-themed traditional turn-based RPGs, and the first game in the series to receive an official English localization.
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Glory of Heracles: Blaaaaah. 0
Glory of Heracles definitely seems to fit the mold of being someone's first RPG, neatly fitting Nintendo's business model of accessibility. The cell-shaded art style, and well-animated sprites are nice, yet when met with a boring storyline, confined overworld, and an under-achieving battle system makes this something to avoid, and hard to recommend to even the openly naive of the genre. The story follows the journey of an immortal warrior Heracles, the son of Zeus, and his band of fellow imm...
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Will the real Heracles please stand up? 0
Although some might not know this, but Glory of Heracles (GoH) for the NDS isn't a standalone product; it is in fact the sixth game in a franchise of the same name. Probably the only reason we don't know this is because for quite a while the series resided in Japan. This incarnation of GoH is the very first in its brethren to have a release outside of Japan, and while it doesn't alienate its new western audience, it does very little to exceed the baseline expectations of the modern RPG.Meet the ...
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Mediocrity of Heracles 2
When I was a NES playing youth, it used to really aggravate me how many Japanese franchises never made it to the States. Now as I’ve gotten older I’ve learned the hard way that in most cases the game companies had a good reason not to bring a good number of these titles over. For every Fire Emblem we missed there are 20 pieces of junk I'm glad we did.Glory of Heracles is one such JRPG series. The DS game is the first released in the US, but the fifth in a long dormant series that used to run in ...
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Review: Glory of Heracles 0
For the first time in North America, the Glory of Heracles RPG franchise has made its way across the ocean. With some interesting uses of the touch screen and a real sense that this game was made with handhelds in mind, it has probably become one of my favourite DS games to date. The story takes place in mythological Greece, where gods like Zeus and Hades exist. You assemble a crew who all happen to be immortals for reasons that they don’t know, and your mysterious main character is appa...
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