Grand Kingdom

 PlayStation 4
User Score
7.4

Mixed or average reviews- based on 101 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 66 out of 101
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 101
  3. Negative: 20 out of 101
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  1. megabear
    Jul 8, 2016
    6
    This game does some things extremely well, and other things extremely poor.

    Pros: - Seamlessly combine RPG, strategy, action and puzzle - Satisfying turn based combat - War is a nice touch, albeit without real rewards other than occasional scroll if you're very lucky - Japanese voice acting is very well done - High replay value, provided that you can get past the repetitiveness of    This game does some things extremely well, and other things extremely poor.

    Pros:
    - Seamlessly combine RPG, strategy, action and puzzle
    - Satisfying turn based combat
    - War is a nice touch, albeit without real rewards other than occasional scroll if you're very lucky
    - Japanese voice acting is very well done
    - High replay value, provided that you can get past the repetitiveness of battle scenes.

    Cons:
    - Story is as generic and cliche as it gets.
    - Lack of variety in items and enemies. Items especially, because you end up with either just one or two choices for your slots at given levels.
    - Classes are unbalanced. Valkyries are clearly the best char, while Challengers are clearly the worst.
    - Induces claustrophobia after a while, because you spend most of your time in that same battle scene, over and over.
    - No surprise but English voice acting is below average.
    - Oversexualization of some characters. Gets embarrassing in front of kids.

    Conclusion: While it was entertaining for a short while, I've already moved on as of 7/7. I think it's a decent game, but I won't be buying a sequel.    … Expand
  2. LawSH93
    Mar 23, 2018
    7
    For the first 10 hours, I thought it was a great game. 30 hours later, I left with mixed feeling. The game itself is a solid S-JRPG with great art style and interesting system. However, it is cleverly designed so that you would either grind your eyes blind or submit to microtransaction.

    Character level doesn't matter in this game, level 99 is just the beginning. Character attributes    For the first 10 hours, I thought it was a great game. 30 hours later, I left with mixed feeling. The game itself is a solid S-JRPG with great art style and interesting system. However, it is cleverly designed so that you would either grind your eyes blind or submit to microtransaction.

    Character level doesn't matter in this game, level 99 is just the beginning. Character attributes decide how powerful your squad is. And of course the characters you hired are mediocre. Attribute leveling up scrolls are farmable from treasure missions. Sadly, for these rare missions to show up, you need to refresh mission list using game currency.

    The actual process of leveling up a character is making money, getting scroll, leveling your character to lv20, train up(improve one attribute), repeat from step one. To grind effectively, you need to build a very specific power leveling squad first. In the end, this is still very time consuming. Major attribute scrolls don't show up often. Or, you could just simply buy scroll/tome(could level up attribute by 2 ranks) from Playstation store using real money.

    This game is designed to be extremely grindy and repetitive to encourage microtransaction. In a way, it is a somewhat pay to win mobile game disguised as a console RPG.    … Expand
  3. drlowdon
    Jun 8, 2018
    6
    Set on the fictional continent of Resonail, where four nations are vying for dominance following the fall of the Uldein Empire, Grand Kingdom is a tactical role playing game in which the player command groups of mercenaries in turn based battles.

    After a quite frankly overwhelming tutorial section, that introduces far too many gameplay aspects for most people to understand, the majority    Set on the fictional continent of Resonail, where four nations are vying for dominance following the fall of the Uldein Empire, Grand Kingdom is a tactical role playing game in which the player command groups of mercenaries in turn based battles.

    After a quite frankly overwhelming tutorial section, that introduces far too many gameplay aspects for most people to understand, the majority of the gameplay is taken up with the aforementioned turn based battles. These battles are suitably deep and offer plenty of freedom in terms of tactics, the issue is they're not enough to support an entire game by themselves. The rest of the game consists of little more than clicking through menus to hire staff, by weapons etc and even just a few hours in everything started to become incredibly repetitive.

    I'd love to see the battle template from Grand Kingdom in an RPG that offered more outside of the battles but as it is I'll not be sticking with Grand Kingdom any longer.    … Expand
  4. ThePSButton
    Apr 8, 2020
    6
    Inofensivo, pero bonito. Un interesante sistema de combate, pero en general un juego de calidad bastante promedio.
  5. Jajooka
    Aug 24, 2021
    6
    I enjoyed playing around with party setup and characters for a while. But after I have hunted down all the bounties in the exploration maps there wasn't any challenge left sadly. Normal and "Hard" fights are so easy that any of your characters can handle them solo. It is a shame because I would really like to play more but there is just nothing else left to do. I don't know how it was withI enjoyed playing around with party setup and characters for a while. But after I have hunted down all the bounties in the exploration maps there wasn't any challenge left sadly. Normal and "Hard" fights are so easy that any of your characters can handle them solo. It is a shame because I would really like to play more but there is just nothing else left to do. I don't know how it was with the online content available, but now without it, the content runs out fairly quickly. I bought the game at a 80% discount price so I am not THAT disappointed, but I would strongly disencourage anyone to buy it at full price now, without the online content available.… Expand

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Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 33 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 27 out of 33
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 33
  3. Negative: 0 out of 33
  1. Games Master UK
    Aug 21, 2016
    80
    A solid and beautiful tactical RPG with neat 2D brawling and unique multiplayer. [Aug 2016, p.80]
  2. GameCritics
    Aug 2, 2016
    70
    I enjoyed Grand Kingdom quite a bit. On paper this game is everything I want in an SRPG, but it did leave me feeling a little underwhelmed. With a stronger narrative stitching everything together, I think it really would be the total package.
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  3. RPG Site
    Jul 22, 2016
    60
    I feel mixed on Grand Kingdom because I want to like it, but it just seems lackluster on its feedback loop of repetitive mission design; there is nothing that significantly caught my attention outside of the intricacies of battle from constantly building parties of different classes. Its story is severely lacking, and the War mode has a few neat quirks that overstayed its welcome rapidly. Grand Kingdom is an entertaining experience that presents neat, unconventional approaches to the genre, but there are so many aspects of its infrastructure that just seem haphazardly unrealized.
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