Not at all the meat of things are the Dragons. Normal encounters are fairly easy however, that's not to say the whole game is. The Exhaust Gauge is pretty much literally the Boost gauge from the first EO game (I'm making a lot of comparisons between the two apparently, the first game on DS had even more similarities): you fill it up by attacking enemies and, when used, your turn speed is increased and skills you use have increased effects. You can attack, defend, use items, escape (which thankfully has a much higher chance of succeeding than in EO), and use the Exhaust Gauge. The actual battles themselves are your typical turn-based JRPG battles. New skills are learned by upgrading facilities (more on that later). Every class has a selection of skills that take SP to level up unlike EO, SP is gained alongside XP, and higher levels of skills take more XP. I went with Samurai/Psychic/Trickster, though looking back it may have been worth going with a Hacker due to my Trickster mostly just spamming healing items in fights against Dragons. With five different classes (Samurai= Jack of All Trades Melee, Psychic= Mage who can both attack and heal, Trickster= fast class who can focus on status effects or raw damage, Destroyer= slow but powerful CQC specialist, and Hacker= your buff/debuff class) and only three party slots, you have to pick and choose like EO, unless you want to spend time grinding up secondary party members on the side, you aren't going to be able to have everything. It's far from the worst written RPG out there it's just, as I said, unremarkable. It's not all bad several NPCs go through the motions of character development (which is a lot more than EO can generally say for itself), and a certain one of them actually kinda sticks out (helps that I know they appear in future games in the series). Massive escalation of stakes at the last minute? Check. Antagonistic force calls you out for going with the good guys but acts mysterious at first for the sake of it? Check. Good guys aren't all as good as they appear? Check. It's mildly entertaining and gives you a reason to do things (compared to the first 60% of any EO game being just "go exploring and stuff"), but it hits almost all the expected notes.
7TH DRAGON 2020 PSP GAMEPLAY SERIES
The game is slightly more focused in the story department than it's sister series that doesn't mean it does anything remarkable.
The player characters are established as Murakumo Unit 13 (a designation that possesses unintentional comedy for me and anyone else acquainted with BlazBlue), and it is their job to spearhead the destruction of all dragons in Tokyo. But, as you reach the top, all hell breaks loose Dragons warp in, and stuff gets real. After a brief cutscene, you then create two more characters to fill out your party and scale Tokyo Tower, fighting monsters and doing some dungeon crawling. The first character is the "hero" and starts as the party leader, meaning they get the focus in cutscenes and the like in actuality, this really means nothing as you can switch the party leader anytime and the game acts like the new leader's been the hero all along. From there you create your first character by choosing from one of ten portraits (5 male/5 female), one of five classes, a ton of different voices, and lastly a name.
7TH DRAGON 2020 PSP GAMEPLAY TRIAL
Said trial is making it to the top of Tokyo Tower, which has been invaded by monsters out of the blue. The game starts out in the year 2020, with Murakumo (a specialized task force that works with the Japanese government) holding a trial for new members. And for various reasons (the first game is a prequel and doesn't really tie into things until the third game, along with wanting to try out PSP emulation), I went with the second game: 7th Dragon 2020. Thankfully, I'd also heard tell that the first two games in the series had been translated.
As a fan of its sister series, Etrian Odyssey, I'd had some interest in it sadly, only the 4th and final game in the series was localized, 7th Dragon III. One of the first things I did was go hunting for emulators I quickly remembered that there were several PSP games I'd wanted to play, so I went and downloaded an emulator for said console. A few weeks ago, I bought my own laptop (previously I'd been making do with my school computer, which I had to send back at the end of my senior year).
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