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GUEST REVIEW BY JOSH

Lost kingdoms II Is defiantly an older game making its first appearance in early 2003, appearing solely for the Gamecube console. This game was revolutionary for its time. RPG's were hard to find for the Gamecube due to the fact the the Playstation 2 was making so many of them. Nintendo found a perfect counter for them.

The heroine of this Game is named Tara Grimface. She is the sister of the Queen, though she holds the greatest treasure of the entire kingdom, The runestone which once belonged to Queen Katia (Whom in Lost Kingdoms defeated to dark god and saved the kingdom bringing on a period of happiness and prosperity.) Using this runestone, Tara is able to use monsters, whom are bound in cards, to fight against her various enemies. These cards are contained in a Deck which is contained in the runestone. The player starts out with a smaller deck, slowly working your way up to a thirty card deck then working on improving the cards in the deck from there. The game has a large volume of cards to choose from so that one can make a deck based on what type of fighting they wish to specialize in. The four different types of cards are weapon cards (which summon a monster to perform a single attack) Summon cards (Which are, in essence, very powerful one use weapons.) Independent creature cards (which summon a creature who will then move about the board and use their abilities as they see fit.) And Transformation cards which were introduced in this game. Transformation cards allow Tara to take on the form of a monster gaining their attacks and abilities (Flight, wall-smashing powers, leaping powers, etc.).

Game-play is smooth and easy to follow. Using the cards in your deck you must defeat the enemies on the map while making your way to the boss, whom, when is killed, will allow you to finish the level. While beating the final boss of the game doesn't take to long, there are still many things to do after killing the final boss, the most difficult being collecting every card that the game has to offer. There are also other stages and areas that are only accessible once the final boss has been killed (I wont spoil the surprise to much.)

This game is highly addictive, again, the storyline is smooth, game-play is simple to grasp but difficult to master, and there is even a PvP element to the game, which some cards are made specifically for. I would highly recommended this game to anyone who likes RPG's do to the quality of the game and the re-playability value that it has.

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