Full Game Reviews
Rating of
4/5
Not-Harry-Potter and the Sideways Strategy
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 08/27/2011
“GrimGrimoire” is the second game by Vanillaware, the development house renowned for their defiance of 3D polygonal dominance in modern gaming. “GrimGrimiore” has little in common with other titles by Vanillaware, as it falls into the Real-Time Strategy (RTS) genre, a rarity on game consoles, and even rarer as a console exclusive. While RTS is one of my least favorite genres, I was curious to see if a Japanese console game developer could take a genre so firmly rooted in PC gaming and reshape it to fit the PlayStation 2 and its demographic.
Presentation
As a Vanillaware game and as the immediate follow-up to “Odin Sphere,” “GrimGrimoire looks and sounds absolutely phenomenal. Foregoing fancy polygonal graphics, “GrimGrimoire” uses Vanillaware’s proprietary …
