Revelations: Demon Slayer
Game by Atlas
Reviewed by Ryno
Rsonderg@online.emich.edu
Size: Unknown
Save: Three Save game slots
Released: (What year was it released?)
Works with: All Gameboys (but should be played with CGB)
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Opening Snide Remarks: I bought this game with very high hopes.  It sounded
kind of cool, although I was a little sceptical about the whole monster
thing.  Also, I wasn't too sure about all the bible referances, but it was
clearly marked RPG, and it was by atlas, who had produced some other cool
games for the play station, and ogre battle for the super nes, so I figured
it had to be at least decent and worth my money.

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Gameplay Descripion: Game play was, for the most part, very good.  It played
very much like a traditional RPG in respects to Dragon Warrior or Final
Fantasy.  The normal menus, statistics, etc. One bad thing, however, was the
constant text scrolling and the excessive menus.  Most RPG's allow you to go
back through menus (cancel the screen) by pressing the B button, but in
Revelations, you had to wait for the text to finish scrolling, or press the
button several times before it closed out the screen.  This became mildly
annoying after a while.  Also, the whole talking in battle thing got very
old.  All I wanted to do was kick some booty and these monsters wouldn't
shut up.

Liked: Traditional menus, excellent charactor development system 
(leveling up).
Hated: Excessive menus, talking monsters, and the scrolling text.

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Graphics Description: The graphics were awesome.  Now when I first bought
this game, I only had a normal gameboy, and I thought it was pretty decent.
But when I recently obtained my CGB, I was amazed. The graphics are great,
and the colors excellent.  It makes a huge differance playing this game in 
color as opposed to in black and white.  There weren't any graphics 
noticably out of the ordinary, and they flowed together pretty well.

Liked: Excellent color, nice graphics, very traditional, very cool.
Hated: Black and white (not that I really hated it, I just wouldn't 
reccomend it)

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Sound/Music Description: The audio is actually quite good for a game boy
game.  It's not excellent, but it doesn't suck either.  Pretty average.
Good enough to set a mood, and good enough not to get annoying, but not good
enough to arrange it for your local symphony.

Liked: Wasn't annoying.
Hated: Nothing, really.

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Play Control/Game Design: The game design has both really good, and really
bad points.  First of all, I'd like to say I didn't buy this because it was
a pokemon clone, and I thought this rpg was going to kick some ass.  However,
the monster collecting is what makes the game suck a little. The leveling up
system is solid (in fact, awesome) and most of the items are pretty standard
and well done.  All Atlus needed to do was stick to its guns and JUST make 
an RPG, and it would have rocked, but I get the feeling that they went with
the popular flow and threw in monster colecting to be cool.  If the game
didn't have this element in it, it would have been much better off.

Liked:  The level up system.
Hated: The monster system.

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Improve:  If they put out a sequel, all they have to do is make it a straight
rpg instead of all the popular hype.  If they gave you a few characters who
you could level up and build up as you chose with this system, and cut the
monster crap, this game would rock.

RIYL: Final fantasy legend series.

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Final Words: This game isn't a bad rpg.  In fact, I've gotten through a lot
of it without even getting any monsters.  All you have to do is up your
stamina to get more hp, and some of your intellegence to get mp early on,
and once you get your three charactors, you should be ok.  The talking during
battle gets annoying, but if your into that sort of thing, then I guess this
is a decent game.  You can try to play this as a straight up rpg, and you'll
get pretty far, but eventually, you'll have to break down and do some monster
collecting. If your looking for a goodrpg for your game boy, this can be a
decent one, but I wouldn't make it your #1 pick.  

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Score
Gameplay: **** 4 stars
Graphics: ***** 5 stars
Sound/Music: **** 4 stars
Play Control/Game Design: **** 4 stars
Personal Opinion: **** 4 stars
Total: 21 stars

Final Score: 84%