When it is empty, the player can no longer attack, and must wait for the gauge to automatically refill, or instantly refill by successfully blocking an enemy attack.

The party's battle strategy is shown just to the right of this.ĭuring combat, each character has an 'Action Gauge', which decrease with each action taken. The status of the player character's primary and second weapon are indicated on the top left of the screen. The party's stats are on the bottom of the screen, showing information such as their hit points, ability points and action gauge. īattle screen from the North American version of Rogue Galaxy. NPCs will not perform any special moves or use items unless the player tells them to, or has selected a particular strategy prior to the battle. The player is given a choice of either ignoring the advice, or picking one of the available options. NPC allies will also offer advice to the player character, such as suggesting they perform a special move or use a particular item. Additionally, the player can issue specific orders to the NPCs during combat, such as having them use an item or activate one of their special abilities. The strategy can also be changed at any time during the battle. Available strategies include fighting very aggressively, targeting a specific enemy, or not fighting at all. The two NPCs fight independently of the player character, based on the strategy selected prior to the battle. The player has direct control over only one character, although which character this is can be changed at any time. However, unlike such games, which feature turn-based combat, Rogue Galaxy uses a real-time hack and slash combat system in which the player fights with a party of three characters. Battles occur as random encounters, a la traditional role-playing video games such as Square's Final Fantasy X or Level-5's own Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King. Rogue Galaxy is an action role-playing game played from a third-person perspective in which the player moves through a continuous environment, with no load time between overworld exploration and combat. Although the game went on to win several gaming awards, it did not sell as well as had been hoped, failing to meet Sony's expectations of selling one million units. Some, however, were critical of the plot and character development. Rogue Galaxy received generally positive reviews, with critics praising the graphics, range of side quests and scope of the game. Both Level-5 and Sony had strong expectations for the game, hoping it would challenge the RPG market dominance of the Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest franchises. At the time of its release, Rogue Galaxy was the largest game Level-5 had ever developed, both in terms of the number of staff working on it and the length of production (over three years). The game follows the adventures of Jaster Rogue, a young agricultural worker living on an isolated planet, who becomes involved in a galactic conflict, and learns the fate of the entire galaxy lies in his hands.

A director's cut of the game was released in Japan in March 2007, which includes all of the added features and improvements made for the North American and European localizations. The game was released in Japan in December 2005, in North America in January 2007, and in most European countries and Australia in September the same year. Rogue Galaxy ( Japanese: ローグギャラクシー, Hepburn: Rōgugyarakushī) is an action role-playing video game developed by Level-5 and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2.

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