Review: Kingdom of Paradise (PSP)Kingdomof Paradise (PSP)ByMichael PalisanoKingdom of Paradise for the PSP is asurprisingly deep RPG that allows players to create a great number of attacks.The swordplay system allows you to create your own style of attacks usingspecial moves and potions to increase your skills. The game follows mostrole-playing conventions otherwise as you traverse a large map of differentareas, facing off against dozens of enemies in real-time battles. From a visualstandpoint, the game excels with a robust storyline unfolding rapidly. Whilethere isn't much competition on the PSP, Kingdom of Paradise is a solidlyentertaining role-playing adventure that should keep you busy for quite sometime.Set in feudal Japan, Kingdom of Paradise isset in the mystical Ouka and follows its protagonist Shinbu as he tries to findthe Kirin Clan who massacred his erstwhile temple.

On his quest, he'll find thatthe sole survivor of the attack was a young girl named Sui Lin who has becomethe new leader of the sect. Shinbu walks into these events but has no claim onthe temple since he left them behind several years before. During his youngerdays, he'd actually been kicked out for disobeying the master's orders. WhileKingdom of Paradise's structure and style follows most RPG conventions, itoffers a few unique mechanics all its own to keep things fresh. The game followsthe action from an overhead perspective, with most actions occurring in realtime. KOH's game world and environments are quite massive, with the mapunfolding slowly as you reach new areas.

This gives the player plenty of roomfor exploration and discovery. During the game, your objectives are to reachcertain areas of the map, and fight the hordes of beasts who attack you. Unlikethe turn-based approach in most role-playing game, each battle takes place inreal time, and you'll usually find yourself surrounded by multiple enemies, allof whom must be defeated in order to move on. You aren't alone in these battles,since Sui Lin accompanies you throughout. She is a decidedly effective swordsmanas well. Most of the enemies put up little resistance, at least early on.However, the game throws more intelligent foes, including massively challengingbosses come at you during its later stages to make things more interesting.Duringthe game, you'll collect a variety of items including scrolls, weapons, healthpower-ups and other items.

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These can then be equipped with your character, whichcan be done on the menu screens. The menus themselves are fairly easy tonavigate, making it easy to see what you have in your inventory.

However, thissystem can also be confusing since some items need to be equipped before theycan be used. That said, the really interesting part of Kingdom of Paradise liesin its extensive use of swords, which is almost a mini-game in and of itself.You begin the game with a standard sword and a few rudimentary weapons, but canearn, use and combine these to create some incredibly effective weapons. Inaddition, you can use scrolls to add special moves to your attacks, giving you aversatile arsenal which lets you battle foes with less predictability. You'llneed to understand several facets of the game in order to use all your powerseffectively. The first of these are the Bugei Scrolls, which contain all themoves your character can perform. They are collected throughout the game invarious locations such as treasure chests and can also be found when you kill anenemy.

There are two basic types of these scrolls, Clan and Freestyle. Clanscrolls contain the moves passed down from the elder members of your clan, whilethe Freestyle scrolls allow you to create your own sets of moves and comboattacks. Additionally, when you obtain a special sword, you can use the specialChi Attacks by using their character's Chi Arts menu, where you can select whichattack to use, then can enable these attacks by holding down an attack. Eachtime they're used, they drain the Chi Energy, and are thus limited in use.

Thesetwo systems add a lot of complexity to the gameplay, making it much deeper thanthe standard hack and slash it seems to be at first.While the role-playing aspects are solid,Kingdom of Paradise's graphics excel by PSP standards. The game's naturalenvironments are richly developed with a series of elaborate villages you canexplore. Each of these features a number of NPC's to interact with, giving eachone a semblance of life. Most of the populace aren't going to give away much,though occasionally you'll find a useful piece of information. Kingdom's battlesare surprisingly intense, with players surrounded by a number of other foes,with little slowdown evident.

The fixed camera is decent in the explorationareas, but becomes a hindrance here since it makes it difficult to target yourattacks at specific enemies. Making matters worse, the real-time nature of thesebattles makes it frustrating to use special attacks, causing most matches todevolve into relentless button mashing. The standard enemies don't put up muchof a fight, making these battles become monotonous quickly.

However, things tendto improve later on with soldiers that are more sophisticated and boss attacks.This gives Kingdom of Paradise a decent learning curve that allows you togradually learn the special attacks, chi arts and other elements of the gameplayeasily without having to spend a lot of time on training missions. Overall, thegame's structure starts off slowly, but gradually becomes more involved.Whilethere has been a noticeable dearth of traditional role-playing titles on the PSPto date, and we're happy to report that Kingdom of Paradise fills the voidnicely. It's deep combat system is obviously the highlight, and allows plenty offlexibility and nuance. Heretic in a sentence. With several layers of weapons and spells, the gamegives you many paths to choose from. The game itself is enjoyable andchallenging with an interesting story that immerses players in their quest.While it can't compete against more elaborate RPG's on other consoles, this isstill a solid looking game.

From a visual standpoint, the game looks solid withexcellent character animations and effective cut-scenes that allow the story tounfold in some cool anime-style cinemas. The overall look of the game iscohesive and interesting, with a variety of special lighting and weather effectsused to add realism to the gameplay. While there are probably a bit too manyrandom battles in the game, their real-time nature makes them exciting andchallenging. However, the focus on creating an extensive and deep combat systempays off, giving you a great deal of control of not only how your charactermoves, but also how they fight.

This gives the game a refreshingly open-endedfeel compared to many other titles, which keep the player locked in to a certainstyle throughout. Kingdom of Paradise is a solid RPG that offers a great deal ofaction and strategy, intuitive controls and, a long quest, making it anexcellent purchase for fans of the genre. Its not the smoothest or most polishedRPG on the market, but this solid title delivers an engaging gameplayexperience.Grade:B Related Articles(PSP)(PSP).

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Kingdom of Paradise is a Action RPG video game published by Sony released on November 15, 2005 for the PSP.

This game is also known as “Key of Heaven” in Europe and 天地の門 “Tenchi no Mon” in Japan.

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