There's nothing here that will be unfamiliar to avid fantasists, but it's all very well implemented. Expect silly names (Saanavarh and Vadagar), dark riders, and magic swords you can buy at the market. Summoner's storyline is very traditional western fantasy. Developed simultaneously for PC and PS2, Summoner borrows from anything within reach, allowing the following description: it's a cross between Baldur's Gate, Diablo, any Fantasy of the Final variety and Vagrant Story. But the PC/console RPG division is a significant one, nothing less than the distinction between the way the West does it and the way the East does it, and it takes a brave game to try and bridge the gap.īehold, THQ's Summoner. Planescape: Torment, for one, courted both sides successfully. There's a line drawn down the middle of that playground, and a new RPG better decide which side it stands on fast, because a kid who tries to make nice with both gangs is only going to get hurt anyone remember Silver?Īll right, I'm on a metaphor trip.
On the other? The champion of the console - so beefy it doesn't know (or care) that the others tread the same concrete: Final Fantasy. On the one side there's the PC gang, led by the D&D giants of Bioware and Black Isle, and the items-and-experience fest that is Diablo II. It's a tough playground where the computer role-playing games hang out.
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