Anime

Though this game has been quite in recent times, it was quite a boom in Japan during the video game "Golden Age". Unexpectedly, a four-episode OAV series of the game was animated in production with Actas Inc./Frontier Works Inc., and the English version was liscenced by Geneon Entertainment for release January 2008. However, as the OAV is only four episodes, many changes and cuts on the main plot were made during production. Original voice actors from the Japanese game were included, though the Nintendo-released English voices were not the same. The art design is very clean and the colors are bright and crisp, and even the music was a bliss to listen to, however the plot itself was the most criticiszed. Since many key events were removed or only hinted, regular viewers would have a hard time understanding it. The anime is mostly recommended for fans only, as most game-to-anime procedures end up as.

Changes from the games::

• Most dungeons, towns, mid-bosses and bosses were cut off from the game. A majority of the anime plot centers the events during and after the Valhalla War.
• The game begins centuries ago when Dhaos was first sealed. The anime begins with Cless and Mint captured by Mars at his seal (which was slightly changed, as they were captured, but in the Euclid castle).
• The massacre of Totus is only seen through flashbacks and bit of the opening cutscene.
• The meeting of Klarth and Arche is not shown. Tornix also advices Cless and Mint to see them, unlike the game, which he sent them to the past with no clue where to start.
• Mint is held under questioning, which we see a flashback of her witness of her mother's death. In the game, she is not questioned at all, nor does she actually witness her death.
• Martel speaks specifically to Mint. In the game, Martel first speaks to Cless only, then the entire party.
• Edward Morrison is never encountered.
• A dramatic scene begins Episode 2 with the consequences of human use of mana.
• Originally, the group was to fight Dhaos at his castle and fail to kill him. In the anime, Klarth is separated to aid the people of Midgard. When Midgard is at ruin, the group instead goes to the Yggdrasil to heal the tree. Dhaos finds them there and helps Mint save the tree, though Cless is enraged. When Dhaos leaves the period, Cless breaks into tears. Also, Mint does not need the Unicorn Horn to heal the Yggdrasil.
• In the anime, Runeglom tells the group of Dhaos's army of demons terrorizing the future.
• Chester and Arche have a late night quarrel while he is training.
• Arche does not disobey the others by going into Ymir, as she is comforted by Chester. She does however, fly by when Dozo attacks, but none of the elves bother much with it.
• Suzu does not join the group at all to fight Dhaos, but fights her father outside the castle.
• The scene of Flanior is a bit cut off from some touching moments (like when Mint discovers her mother's earrings, which didn't happened at all in the anime).
• While in the castle, Cless is separated from the group, and drags himself through the castle, injured completely. He fights one-on-one with Dhaos at the start.

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