Today we bring you the analysis which is postulated as a benchmark of current RPGs of Japanese Court, a genre that, thanks to the work of different distributors increasingly have more presence in Europe. We are talking about Grand Kingdom which already we leave our first impressions of its beta phase.

War on four bands

The history of Grand Kingdom puts us in the middle of a war between the five territories which dispute the mastery of the Empire of Uldein. These five territories have their own hierarchies in which will find Kings, warriors, the different guilds and to mercenaries.

Within this last group is Flint Poker, which will be our star next to Lillia a young healer who will be our ideal complement in the battles. Although these two are the most important characters throughout history we can manage a handful of mercenaries more.

Although we are not going to give you any more details and not gutting you nothing of the plot if we will tell you that the main story has a dozen chapters that will take approximately twenty hours to overcome. But this is not all the Western version of the Spike Chunsoft game includes free 4 packages of additional content which in its Japanese version were paid, these include history view from another Prism with a similar duration, giving us a total of almost 100 hours of play only in the campaign.

But in addition to the campaign of Grand Kingdom strong point is its multiplayer mode in which we will have a total of six mercenaries and after choosing our territory will have to advance to the enemy without neglecting our rearguard and alliances with other players to dominate the map.

The system of alliances is original that offers Grand Kingdom since it will keep us from attacking our ally during a number of shifts, but it will force us to remain vigilant about movements making this if we do not want that we pick off guard once finished our Covenant. Also makes up for the fact that this genre of video games has one market less extensive in our territory with the function of Cross-Play that allows us to share game multiplayer between 4 PlayStation and PlayStation Vita.

Waiting for our turn

The Grand Kingdom gameplay is very simple when our enemy is the AI, but it can be a big problem in the multiplayer mode, because that almost any action is by turns even the move through the map, this way when we complete our turn will have to wait for rivals to do the same so we can act again. This causes that sometimes is something heavy complete a multiplayer war, especially taking into account that can only play two per day.

The positive side of everything being so slow is that there is no problem in terms of gameplay combinations of buttons or quick camera changes are not required to carry out attacks or defend ourselves from these.

We could say that the most complicated of this game lies in the tactics and to make each of the movements in each turn we have time to ask it, but to leave victorious we will have to watch many aspects such as the variety of classes that we can choose or levels that we will be a good number of hours improving to optimize the statistics of our heroes.

Static art

If we are talking about the graphic aspect that offers Grand Kingdom we can say that the situation is very similar to that we have previously commented with the gameplay. We are faced with a very well worked, art as Japanese, we have used the RPG but that lack you a little dynamism already that we are with static scenarios or few movements in the greater part of the title.

In terms of sound soundtrack plays very well its role by immersing us in this world at war which is Uldein, but Grand Kingdom also suffers one of the big problems of the genre and is that both their voices and their texts are fully in English which can be a problem for people not hiring.

Conclusions Grand Kingdom

Grand Kingdom leaves us an original proposal that offers us a good number of hours playable with packs of downloadable content that includes. The big problem is the language which can be a barrier difficult to overcome for many players.

In short, we are facing one of the best RPG that we will receive this year and if you guys are regulars within the genus can not miss Grand Kingdom on your bookshelf.