If you told me at the launch of the 360 that it would have the most JRPGs, I would laugh in your face.

Shouldn't Magna Carta be considered a KRPG?

Yeah was gonna say, isn't this technically made by Koreans? >.>

@Shin Oni:
Yeah the art for this game is amazing. The main artist is Kim Hyung-Tae, who is incidentally my cousin.

I'll definitely give it a shot, but I will also be reading the wiki of the story so far, rather than finishing my PS2 copy. So that's that.

I actually do remember this.
Not the game, but the ad.

http://ui19.gamespot.com/434/magnacarta2wallpaper1280x1024bydefgerbil_2.gif

I recall the picture on the left being used.

I played this game for about 30 seconds.

Biggest mistake of a purchase I have ever made. Magna Carta was terrible. I truly tried to like it when I bought it, but it was just so bad. Voice acting was terrible, the main character looked like a trap, and the battle system was ATROCIOUS.

Cyclic ring QTE just to do a basic attack? Painful.
Basing your ability to attack on the availability of an element in the area was okay, but making it so that the enemy can drain said element with its attack, preventing you from attacking but still being able to attack itself is just ridiculous. That was the only excuse to have multiple characters in battle, since you could only control one at a time, and the uncontrolled characters just stood there, waiting to be moved (or more often, attacked), despite the real time nature of battle. Just... terrible. It's a shame too, since the whole different styles of fighting you could unlock had potential.

Forcing myself to play it in like 30 minute chunks, I managed to log like 4 hours or so in the game. That's pretty bad, considering how many hours I happily devoted to subpar RPGs like The Legend of Alon D'ar.

The PS2 version had some potential - let's hope the sequel improves on its predecessor. The RPG genre could always use a little shaking up.

That screenshot just looks poorly made. Damn generic Korean games.

@Ben PerLee
Sure thing, let me ask him and find out. His English isn't 100% but I should be able to translate. PM me your contact info?

Celdurant and lv99ron summed up my feelings exactly. Glad to see I'm not the only one that put 15 hours into the game, trying hard to like it, but just gave up because it was awful.

Hopefully this one has a completely different system and no voice acting.