Vagrant Story is an action role-playing game developed and published by Square for the PlayStation video game console.
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22 Facts About Vagrant Story
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Vagrant Story was primarily developed by the team responsible for Final Fantasy Tactics, with Yasumi Matsuno serving as producer, writer and director.
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Vagrant Story is unique as a console action-adventure role-playing game in that it features no shops and no player interaction with other characters; instead, the game focuses on weapon creation and modification, as well as elements of puzzle-solving and strategy.
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Vagrant Story is a solo action role-playing game, in which the player controls Ashley Riot from a third-person perspective while exploring Lea Monde and the catacombs underneath.
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Magic in Vagrant Story is learned later in the game using Grimoires that are dropped by enemies.
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In Vagrant Story, selecting "New Game+" enables the player to replay the story using their end-game weapons, items, and statistics instead of the defaults.
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Vagrant Story is set in the fictitious city of Lea Monde, while the kingdom of Valendia is engulfed in civil war.
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Plot of Vagrant Story, titled "The Phantom Pain", is presented as the prelude to the "story of the wanderer".
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Vagrant Story's begins to develop the powers of "heart-seeing", a form of telepathy, as they continue their escape deeper into Lea Monde.
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Vagrant Story is regarded as a mixture of genres, as it contains elements of role-playing in its battles and platform games when in the field map.
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Vagrant Story was conceived during a time when most games had made the transition into three-dimensional graphics.
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The sound effects of Vagrant Story are credited to Minoru Akao, the game's sound programmer; and Tomohiro Yajima, the sound editor and engineer.
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Demo disc of Vagrant Story was included in the packaging of Seiken Densetsu: Legend of Mana in Japan.
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In North America, Vagrant Story was released as part of Square's "Summer of Adventure" that lasted from May to September 2000.
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Vagrant Story was released with two discs; the first disc is the game itself, while the second disc is a demo disc released by Square to give the player a preview of seven titles.
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The soundtrack for Vagrant Story remains to be one of Sakimoto's favorite compositions.
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In May 2000, Vagrant Story was the fifth best-selling PlayStation title of the month.
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Vagrant Story was the third of twenty-seven games to date, and the only game on the PlayStation, to receive a perfect score of 40 from Famitsu magazine.
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Alexander O Smith is responsible for the English localization of Vagrant Story, using archaic English as compared to its straightforward Japanese version.
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Vagrant Story is part of Ultimate Hits, Square Enix's main budget range.
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Matsuno stated in 2011 via his Twitter account that the plot elements of Final Fantasy Tactics found in Vagrant Story were meant to be intertextual reference to the Ivalice title as a form of "fan service".
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Vagrant Story is acknowledged as a game with an "extreme popularity" outside Japan eight years after it was first released.
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