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Can Ubisoft's retro style role player turn nostalgia into gold, or will it just feel old?

Genre: Role Playing
Release date: Jun 6, 2006
Published by: Ubisoft
Developed by: Sonnori

4 FLAWED
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Gorgeous art and simplified strategy - it's the classic RPG you've never played

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News

Astonishia Story 2 : videos and images

Tried a little light at the outset, Astonisha 2 begins to take more and more consistency and is on...

News from N4G Mar 24, 2008

PSP-2008: New Year Of Portable Passion

So you think that 2008 is all about consoles? Well check out these upcoming releases exclusive for...

News from N4G Jan 27, 2008

Astonishia Story gets illustrated

New screens of the PSP RPG

Feb 21, 2006

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Review

A great look and dashes of humor can't turn this RPG from dull to astonishing

Jun 9, 2006

It's tough for nostalgia and great gameplay to co-exist in the same package. Astonishia Story, a very old-school Korean RPG, is the latest to make the attempt, and the latest game to fail utterly. Granted, the nostalgia is largely due to the fact that the game originally appeared on PCs in 1994. But this new translation passes on any updates, with the exception of a comically bad translation. The hero is Lloyd, a knight who's on escort duty when the empire's super-special holy Cainan Staff is ...

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Previews

Astonishia Story

Gorgeous art and simplified strategy - it's the classic RPG you've never played

May 31, 2006

Who doesn't love graphics and gameplay that hearken back to the Super Nintendo days? Lots of people, probably. But there's a healthy audience out there for RPGs done in that classic style, and UbiSoft is angling for their dollars with a North American release of the Korean PSP title Astonishia ... » Read Full Astonishia Story preview

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