Jeanne d'Arc 2006

Is it still worth playing?

Level-5's tactical role playing game for the PlayStation Portable, released in Japan in November 2006 and in North America in August 2007, its first game of this kind. The story is loosely based on Joan of Arc's struggle against the English occupation of France in the Hundred Years' War, with fantasy elements. You move Jeanne and her party across a semi historical map of France. New places lead to cutscenes and battles, cities let you shop, and other spots offer skirmishes to improve your characters. Each character and enemy has an affinity to one of three phases, Sol, Luna and Stella, which beat and lose to each other like rock, paper, scissors. Battles are turn based, and a Burning Aura forms behind a target that a second character can step into to strike for extra damage. Today, the affinities and the aura make the choice of who attacks whom clear.