Written by neobita | 24 March 2008
Posted in Affection - PS2 Games

 

OZ - Over Zenith (released in Europe as Sword of Etheria and in Korea as Chains of Power) is a Beat Em' Up/Action Adventure video game for the Playstation 2 by Konami. It was released on June 30th, 2005 in Japan, July 21st, 2005 in Korea and on February 24th, 2006 in Europe. It was re-released as a Konami Best Hit in Japan on Januarary 26th, 2006.

The game follows a young boy named Fiel who discovers that rather than a human, he is really a Katena, a super-human type life-form with a crystallized limb called a Lex, which can be used as a weapon or to wield a weapon (In Fiel's case, his arm grows a small claw to which he wields a flame-sword). Fiel has a sister named Dorothy and a pet cat named Toto, who actually transforms into Fiel's Sword and reveals Fiel's Katena form to him. Later on, Dorothy is kidnapped by monsters called "Volo" and Fiel must save her with the help of two other Katenas, Almira and Leon. 

Neobita in The Sword Of Etheria
As I am currently in the process of completing this game, I'll share my exploits here with you. I don't really remember when I bought this game, but it is really like a year ago, I think. I bought lots of games, but do not have the time to play them all. So here I will try to finish as many game as possible and record my adventures here in waklu! Though its a personal note for me in recording my game achievements, I thank you for reading anyway.

I started playing the game last week. On Wednesday perhaps... well, when I first bought the game, I had to test it to see if its working. And a test it was! After playing for a couple of hours, I was already in chapter 5, saving the hero's sister in the shrine. I remembered the game got me so worked out with all the combos, aerial attacks and superb finishing moves. Well, here I am today playing it again.

As I already experienced the game once, the second time starting it is a little breeze. I got A rank in the first fight (first stage) with Almira whereas I would only managed to get B rank before. I noticed although I haven't played the game for almost a year, my skills improved and I know what to do next in a battle. I have also managed to volley the enemies longer by the means of Aerial Attack. I've read in Gamefaq.com that in order to obtain the best ending you need to finish the game with A rank. Well, I'm not too confident of scoring A for the upcoming chapters, so I'll try my very best to obtain A rank in every chapter I come across.