The North American PlayStation Store is getting one new addition that can bear the PSone Classic moniker with a straight face this week, the excellent role-playing game from developer Game Arts, Grandia.
Look, no offence to the makers of Dirt Jockey, Sorcerer’s Maze and Hi-Octane: The Track Fights Back, but the addition of Grandia is a welcome original PlayStation contribution. The option to play the late ’90s PlayStation and Saturn adventure, even at the higher than normal PSone Classic asking price of $US9.99, is exciting.
Game Arts’ Takahiro Nishi gets Grandia fans pumped for the digital re-release at the official PlayStation blog.
Coming to PSN this Week: Grandia PSOne Classic [PlayStation.blog]
WiseHacker
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at 3:25 PMThis had better be released in Australia soon!
I actually own a copy and it’s one of the best J-RPGs I have ever played.
Aldin
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at 3:33 PMHope Alundra is next!
RocK_M
Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at 6:36 PMSweet!
Deifinitely was one of the overlooked classics of the PSOne JRPG era in au.. i was lucky to score a copy ages ago =D
The english voices were a bit painful at times tho xD
Paul Down
Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 4:19 AMawesome, we’ll get this down under in say, 12 months time.
Cheuk
Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 12:35 PMMy favorite game ever! I actually went and tracked down the original JP PS1 Grandia and the Sega Saturn version. I’d buy this just to have it, though I agree with RocK_M that the english voice acting was terrible :P
Luke
Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 2:42 PMI played the first several hours of this a couple years ago and thought it was absolutely brilliant, a gem that I’d missed when it had first come out for PS1 (I never owned a Saturn). But I didn’t play it through because it was extremely buggy and several times crashed while traversing a dungeon, forcing me to restart from the same save over and over.
I understand that PS1 games on PS3 are run via emulation. Is there any chance that the crashing issues I had with the original PS1 version would not reappear on this release?