DS RPG Glory of Heracles Revisits the Classics

January 25th, 2010 admin

Glory of Heracles , the new RPG released last week for the Nintendo DS, feels incredibly familiar. And that’s just fine. The game takes place in an anime-infused version of ancient Greece. Your amnesiac hero may or may not be Heracles, son of Zeus. But he is, like many of the companions he’ll come to meet along his adventure, immortal. So too, apparently, are the rules of the traditional Japanese role-playing game. Glory of Heracles is the first game in the series to come to the U.S., but the series began in 1987 in Japan . This …


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