Vandal Hearts: Flames of Judgment -- Final Opinion.

Two full playthroughs and the full two-hundred achievement points later I've completed Vandal Hearts: Flames of Judgment. Hijinx Studios has indeed delivered a real game. I really liked the graphic style. The animated comic style worked very well for a download based strategy RPG. The world is brightly colored and vivid. The battle maps were varied and interesting. The gameplay is simple, straightforward, and fun. There are some options in how you want to go about leveling the six characters of your unit. The difficulty falls closer to the easy side of things. But that might be because I tend to over-level in strategy RPGs by following a pattern I established all the way back with Shining Force. I go through each battle twice before moving on to the next one. The music is sparse but well done. The voices are competent. Not professional actors by any means, but not bad at all. The story is, shall we say, committed. They surprisingly go all the way with it. It's an interesting story for sure, despite how you may not like the outcome. The game is also rather sizeable. Over twenty battles and a couple of endings. As a download title I'm rather impressed with the game. I'm giving Vandal Hearts: Flames of Judgment a 8.5.