Glory of Heracles

Glory of Heracles

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"By most measures, the recently-released Glory of Heracles for the Nintendo DS is an odd little RPG. Originally developed for the Famicom as Data East's answer to Dragon Quest, the fourth game in the series has finally found its way west courtesy of Nintendo. How do you translate a game based on Japan's take on Greek mythology, though?"

"They say you can take a girl out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the girl. The same can be said about classic, turn-based role-playing games. Glory of Heracles teleports the player to ancient Greece for an adventure where the gods of Olympus are real and dangerous monsters lurk around every corner. It's a rather interesting setting for an RPG and one that hasn't been beaten to death the way high-fantasy or sci-fi has. In the end, however, Glory of Heracles feels like ju..."

"There’s an old cliché that video game critics pull out from time to time: this is a game for fans of the genre only. It’s lazy to fall back on such a trite statement, but sometimes the game in question is itself so cliché that it’s hard to avoid falling back on familiar summarizations. Nintendo’s new DS RPG Glory of Heracles, Nintendo’s first Western release of the popular Japanese series, is one such game exemplifies fan service. The game may be set in Ancient Greece, but the gameplay is fir..."