Crimson Gem Saga (2008) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Crimson Gem Saga

With beautiful, high-resolution 2-D artwork, novel battle mechanics, and a classic tale of fantasy, adventure, and heroism, Crimson Gem Saga delivers the pure, classic Japanese RPG play experience PSP owners…

88 23 October 2008

What Crimson Gem Saga is

Crimson Gem Saga is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Sonnori and released in 2008. It was published by Atlus. It is available on PlayStation Portable and iOS.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Crimson Gem Saga is a role-playing video game developed for the PlayStation Portable and iOS. It was developed by South Korean studio IRONNOS and published in Korea by SK Telecom as Astonishia Story 2. It was released in North America on May 26, 2009 by Atlus under the title Crimson Gem Saga, and was released in Japan under the title Garnet Chronicle by Sega.

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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are fantasy.

How it was received

Crimson Gem Saga holds a critic score of 88 out of 100. That places it above 89% of the 3,814 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 23 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Crimson Gem Saga launched on 23 October 2008, within three weeks of Dead Space (2008), Fallout 3, Dead Space and World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Dead Space (2008), Fallout 3, Dead Space, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King.

Cheats and codes

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