When I started playing Grim Grimoire, I was ignorant of the story.  All I knew was that the game was pretty and it was an RTS.  By the end of the game's intro, I knew that the game was based…

Consoles and RTS (also known as real-time strategy) games. At worst, a mixture akin to fire and pressurized gas. At best, a tremulous liaison whose main contributor is a body of triple-A PC titles, ported to the hardware of the…

Lillet Blan, the protagonist of Grim Grimoire begins the game only with the skills to summon Glamour familiars (as seen in the first article). Within the first few hours of the game Lillet also learns how to control phantom warriors…

Also developed by Vanillaware (remember Odin Sphere?) is Grim Grimoire, a side scrolling RTS that NIS America is releasing in North America later this month. The story is about Lillet Blan who is caught in a time loop, trapped between…

This week Atlus is releasing Odin Sphere, a beautiful looking 2D action game developed by Vanillaware. I don’t want to steal Odin Sphere’s thunder too much, but NIS America just sent over a review build of Vanillaware’s other Playstation 2…

I feel confident to say that Grim Grimoire may just be one of the best looking PS2 games if not ever, then at least this year.  While I drooled over screenshots prior to playing it, they really don’t do the…

As seen in our earlier playtest there is more to Grim Grimoire than eye candy, but seeing a battle might give you a better idea about how Grim Grimoire’s system works. At the start of this battle a group of phantoms…

A RTS on the Playstation 2? That’s what Grim Grimoire is except there is less focus on building your base and much more combat. Each battle puts you in control of Lillet Blan, a new student at a magician’s academy…

Odin Sphere isn’t the only Vanillaware game in town. NIS America is bringing Grim Grimoire out in June 2007. I just started playing a build of the US version of Grim Grimoire and the first few chapters are tutorial missions…

  Unlike many of NIS America’s other titles Grim Grimoire is a real time strategy game. Lillet doesn’t fight; instead she summons elves and fairies to do battle for her. When you start a battle in Grim Grimoire you have…