Reviewing Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood: PSP Game

Gameplay: The game play is sort-of a fighting game and dialogs. However, you cannot choose what to say. It will just dictate the story as you go along with the game. The goal in every fight is to reduce the opponent's HP to zero. You can play as Edward Elric or Alphonse Elric. You will choose who you will play at the beginning of the game. Say if you choose Ed, Al will be AI. Same if you choose Al, Ed will be the AI. 


It's a 2v2 Fighting Game but you can choose to fight alone 1v1. You can do adhoc party with your friends. Finish the Story together and have fun. The controls are just right for the PSP console. By pressing two combined buttons, you can perform Alchemy and by pressing the normal buttons you can perform normal attacks and block. Thought there's a catch when playing 2v2 game. You need to simultaneously bring your opponent down or else if you focus just on one opponent, the other one may resurrect the fallen opponent and regain HP equal to his team mate. So you need to manage attacks that
target them both. And beat them at the same time.

The whole game as I've said is a dialog game that is parallel to the Manga story. It's just pictures and subtitles together with their Japanese voices. But when you're fighting, the scenario goes light 3d. What i really love in this game is that when even your character got bruised or beat up. It will really manifest on your character. Say al will have a slotted bruised armor or Ed will have a torn-out clothes. Makes me feel kinda realistic. 

Graphics: 8/10

 Over All Ratings: 7/10

Comments: Although the Anime/Manga version is awesome. This game were not as good as it. I think they've just created it for the sake of just-to-have-a-game version of the anime and it turns out a very mediocre game. I'd rather watch the Anime/Watch the manga Version rather than completing this whole game and turns out, The story is as same as what Arakawa-Sensei created.