Grandia II
Grandia 2 is a 3D RPG, viewed from a top-down perspective for most of the game and a 3rd person view during battle. Controlling Ryudo, the player will explore various locations, locating townspeople and…
Grandia II is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Game Arts, released 3 August 2000 on PlayStation 3, Dreamcast, PlayStation 2 and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 36 hrs to finish.
What Grandia II is
Grandia II is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Game Arts and released in 2000. It was published by Enix. It is available on PlayStation 3, Dreamcast, PlayStation 2 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Ryudo is a mercenary, known as a Geohound, and is hired by the Church of Granas to escort Elena, a Songstress of Granas, to Garmia Tower for a ceremony. Upon arrival, he is asked to wait while they perform the ritual. However, he hears a scream and rushes up to the top floor. Seeing everyone dead and Elena with a pair of wings, he rescues her and both return to Carbo village. Back in the village, Ryudo is asked by the priest to escort Elena to St. Heim Papal State to seek Pope Zera to help cleanse Elena of the Wings of Valmar, one of several pieces of Valmar, that now possess her. Before he can turn the job down, the village is attacked by a mysterious winged woman, who engages and defeats…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Grandia II holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 46% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2000 averaged 72, so it scored 3 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 77, across 64 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 36 hrs.
What it launched against
Grandia II launched on 3 August 2000, within three weeks of Paper Mario, Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000, Kiss: Psycho Circus - The Nightmare Child and The King of Fighters 2000. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Paper Mario, Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Fight 2000, Kiss: Psycho Circus - The Nightmare Child, The King of Fighters 2000.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Grandia II yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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