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PoPoLoCrois is a video game for the PSP. PoPoLoCrois is an adaptation of five PoPoLoCrois games, the original PlayStation release along with its four sequels, previously released only in Japan. The PSP release is the first PoPoLoCrois game to be released in the USA and Europe. The words popolo and crois are a mix of two words from different languages: Popolo means people in Italian, and Crois means believe in French.
Gameplay
The battles, however, are slightly more interesting.
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PoPoLoCrois is a video game for the PSP. PoPoLoCrois is an adaptation of five PoPoLoCrois games, the original PlayStation release along with its four sequels, previously released only in Japan. The PSP release is the first PoPoLoCrois game to be released in the USA and Europe. The words popolo and crois are a mix of two words from different languages: Popolo means people in Italian, and Crois means believe in French.
Gameplay
The battles, however, are slightly more interesting. While random and turn-based, they take on a form very similar to the Final Fantasy Tactics ones, though not as deep. When a character's turn begins, they can move along a small grid and attack enemies from the front, sides, or back. An attack to the enemy's back will deal more damage, as will skipping a turn to focus on the next turn.
The gameplay has been criticised for having semi-tedious load times (especially on the Sony PSP). On the Sony PSP the sprites may lag for a while in some areas. It has also been criticised for having very frequent random encounters and, with the battle system, can really slow down a simple walk from one town to another.
Plot
The main character is the prince of the Popolocrois kingdom, Pietro. The first game, "Popolocrois Monogatari", starts at the night of Pietro's 10th birthday, when he learns that his mother, who he thought was long dead, was found in a coma. Pietro sets out into a journey along with the apprentice forest witch, Narcia, to save his mother's soul from the underworld.
That is only the beginning of the Popolocrois story, there are two more games continuing the tales of Pietro and Co. The second game, "PopoRogue"(Popolocrois + Epilogue), featured Pietro as a 12 year old boy that went off to save his father from the dream world that he was forced into. The third, "Popolocrois Monogatari II", featured Pietro and Narcia as a 15 year old with different costumes, who went off the defeat the mysterious force that was going to destroy the world. "Popolocrois Monogatari II" was the most famous game of the series, due to the darkened story, new party members, and many other features.
The PSP release is a reproduction of "Popolocrois Monogatari" (included into Book 1) and "PopoloCrois Monogatari II"(Included into Book 3), but Book 2 is a brand-new scenario.
Characters
- Pietro is very caring and values friendship, and he gets more courageous as the game progresses. Pietro has crush on Narcia ever since they had their first adventure together. Pietro finds out that he is part dragon because his mother, Queen Sania is a dragon.
- Narcia is an Apprentice forest witch who helps Pietro in the game. Narcia wears a pink dress with a two pointed hat for a specific purpose; when she is 15 years old, she begins to wear a semi purple and pink dress.
- Kai is Narcia's shapeshifting alter ego. Guilda gave her the treasure of the forest witches: the Golden Key which allowed her to become a human so she wouldn't turn into bubbles if she came in contact with seawater; but if anyone discovered this secret, she would fall into a coma. At first she tricks Pietro and the White Knight into thinking that she's a friend of Narcia's, but she reveals her secret to Pietro by accident and later Kimendoji.
- White Knight is first met by Pietro and Narcia at the same time Naguro is met. He joins the party and stays until the very end of book one, Ice Demon. He then rejoins the party when Pietro, Don and Gon go the mine in Pasela to find a dragon in there but then leaves after a baby dragon imprints on him and he stays behind in the land of Dragons to get the baby used to living there.
- GamiGami Devil is a slightly unbalanced dwarf who, though unable to read or write above the level of a child, is a technical genius who creates robots and vast cities.
- Ice Demon is the ruler of North Land and master of ice magic. In the past, he attacked Popolocrois but was stopped and defeated by a dragon.
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