Take Steiner to a certain island in the game, and he will mature into a mammoth flying beast that will save your party from a lot of walking.Ĭombat in Beyond the Beyond is pretty standard stuff. Besides the five fellow adventurers, players are also helped by Steiner, a baby dragon that occasionally fights alongside the hero. As players progress through the game, they'll run into healers, wizards, barbarians, love interests and all manner of people and beasts who wish to join the quest. The hero's party can contain as many as five people, and the land is full of folks who aren't too happy with the Bandore Empire. Now the hero has to deal with this more powerful menace, and his quest changes from saving Marion to saving the world.įortunately, players won't have to go about this monumental task alone. It turns out that Bandore is receiving aid from the Underworld, a region populated with sinister wizards, that lies predictably enough, beneath Marion and the rest of the land. The hero's goal becomes pretty simple: He must find his father and help win Marion back from the Bandore Empire.Īs the hero searches the land for help in defeating Bandore, he learns that there's more to the evil empire than meets the eye. Bandore's soldiers attack and take over the kingdom, and Sir Kevins winds up missing. Marion's situation goes from bad to worse early in the game. It seems that Marion has some nasty neighbors-namely, the war-mon-gering Bandore Empire-and skilled soldiers are in short supply. Here, the player's character is being trained by his father, Sir Kevins, to become protector of the kingdom of Marion. The game's plot, which is as convoluted as anything from Square, opens in the tiny village of Isla.

The adventure takes place in an overhead perspective, with players guiding a party of tiny characters through towns, wilderness, the underworld and across the sea. Sony is finally releasing Beyond the Beyond, and thousands of PlayStation-owning RPG fans are shouting, 'It's about darn time!' This long-awaited title is the first true RPG to come out for the PlayStation (no, King's Field doesn't count), and its release brings relief to gamers who feared Sony wasn't too keen on games that lacked constant action.īeyond the Beyond is about as traditional as console RPGs get (meaning it plays very much like a Final Fantasy title).

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