A rare pearl beautiful luster.

PRO:
- The game has a beautiful hand-drawn graphics that is bursting with lovely details. It may be that the
very Japanese to stay childlike look polarized - but in this game it fits well with the overall concept.
- A dense, interwoven, continuous story about every 5 playable characters across is in countless
Cutscenes telling. Mostly though strange turns, but a nice final.
- The background music I feel as consistent and appropriate.
- You can choose between English and Japanese combined with German subtitles - SUPER!

The issues raised by some people slow-downs exist. I feel as not so very disturbing, especially since this the sporadically but demanding (boss-) Stages are a bit easier.

CONTRA:
- The level system could have been improved a bit. First, it appears originally but one by looking right
quickly the very simple mechanisms behind it. After that it runs only on an optimal use of
existing inventory beyond what a lot of manual management required.

CONCLUSION:
Despite this one-mentioned weakness convinced with Odin Sphere. A so lovingly told story in a unique graphic style is not found often in today's pabulum. Despite simple spanking action the boss and interim boss battles are challenging and because you want to know how the story continues Odin Sphere offers good 30-40 hours of gameplay.