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Kessen II

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Kessen II

Mar 29, 2001

Main game

3.43 average rating based on 37 ratings

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The real time simulation of Kessen returns to the PS2, with a story of love and battle in the three kingdoms. It's a magnificent historical fantasy in Kessen II.
Developers
Koei
Publishers
Koei
Series
Kessen
Platforms
PlayStation 2
Genres
Real Time Strategy (RTS), Strategy
Themes
Fantasy, Historical
Release Dates
Mar 29, 2001 (Japan)
PlayStation 2
Sep 26, 2001 (North_America)
PlayStation 2
Mar 15, 2002 (Europe)
PlayStation 2
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User Stats
71
In Collection
10
Wish Listed
1
Playing
13
Backlogged
How Long Is Kessen II?
No playthrough data yet
Balmora
Balmora gave Jun 19, 2023
Balmora gave Jun 19, 2023
Love and hate
This review is for the PlayStation 2 version

I've played this game multiple times over the years. I love the game play, but there are a few big negatives that bring the score way down. Not being able to skip the animation of the in battle abilities and dunce AI makes it a hard sell. This game has a special place in my game collection, but I would not recommend it to anyone.

Chovus
Chovus updated their status Jul 28, 2020
Chovus updated their status Jul 28, 2020

Beat on loan from my coworker. Pretty sure I did both campaigns and everything the game had to offer. I enjoyed the story and cinematics (except for that scene with girls dancing to techno music, which was seriously out of place for ancient China). I tried to play it more like a strategy game, with battle lines, feints, ambushes, flanking etc, but this game barely qualifies as strategy. It felt like army composition, overall strategy and tactics did not matter, and in some cases made the game a bit harder (or at least take longer). A good example is if you flank an enemy already engaged with a unit, which forcibly switches view to the flanker, separates the enemy unit so that your units can't help each other kill the same soldiers, and your nukes from 1 unit will not affect the soldiers engaged with your other unit. The heroes are also awkward to control and I am not sure how much benefit there is to controlling them. Their spells are Final Fantasy summon FMV levels of long and unskipable.

Decent game but not worth playing again. 6.8/10.