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Makai Kingdom: Chronicles of the Sacred Tome is a Tactical-RPG released on Playstation 2 in July 2005, developed by Nippon Ichi Software and published by Koei in Europe. After La Pucelle tactics, Disgaea: hour of Darkness and Phantom Brave here is the 4th T-RPG of Nippon Ichi. After a rather serious Phantom Brave, Makai Kingdom returns to a hilarious universe close to Disgaea.
This time we take control of the Overlord with oversized ego called Zetta. He wants to save his world from the destruction predicted by the oracle Pram. Then Zetta discovered the Sacred Tome, a magical book supporting his Netherworld. He opens it and finds a sentence saying that his Netherworld will be destroyed because of his stupidity. Injured in his self-esteem, Zetta burns the book. He remembered immediately that if the book is destroyed his Netherworld will be swallowed into void. So he instantly corrects its stupid act by confining his soul inside the book in order to save it from destruction. Transformed into Sacred Tome, Zetta will then need to seek help from others Overlord to rewrite the book and thus restore his world.
The story of the game is divided into several chapters. At the beginning of each chapter the player must choose among the Overlords (Valvolga, Pram, Babylon, and many others) who will write a page of the book. This will then create random levels whose contents vary depending on the Overlord author of the page. Zetta will then have to use his units in order to fight in those levels. To win we have to gather points which are obtained by killing enemies, picking up objects, or discovering new portions of the level.
Zetta reduced to the status of mere book can not fight the enemies on his own. Then he must rely on characters created in his headquarters. There are many classes of characters which come from Phantom Brave and Disgaea, in addition to many new classes. The combat system is the same as in Phantom brave. That is to say that the characters have freedom to move within a circle set by the characters' movement points. They can also pick up weapons and objects on the battlefield like in Phantom Brave.
Makai Kingdom nevertheless brings innovations with the appearance of vehicles and buildings. The characters can drive vehicles in order to move faster and have a stronger attack power. There are many different vehicles as drills, robots, or aircrafts. Like the characters, they can increase their level and thereby increase their effectiveness. The buildings are used to shelter your units. Depending on their type (Hospital, store, military school, etc') buildings give bonuses to the units, like experience points, defense, attack, intelligence, etc.
Makai Kingdom: Chronicles of the Sacred Tome surpass Phantom Brave in terms of gameplay, with its many additions, even if we feel a little lost in all the possibilities. There no doubt that Makai kingdom is another great T-RPG created by Nippon Ichi Software.