

1999 · Success · Role-playing · Strategy
Battle Hunter
PlayStation exclusive
Battle Hunter (known as The Hunter in Europe) pits you against evil robots, mutated animals, and even some of your own friends! Battle Cards will help you get a leg up on the competition, and awesome action physics make the gameplay smooth and realistic. If you’re looking for an original challenge that lives up to its premise, check out BATTLE HUNTER.
- Released
- 22 December 1999
- Platforms
- PlayStationPlayStation 3PlayStation Portable
- Genres
- Role-playingStrategyTacticalTactical role-playingTurn-based strategy
- Developers
- Success
- Publishers
- Agetec
- Modes
- MultiplayerSingle-player
- Perspective
- Bird view / Isometric
- Themes
- ActionFantasyScience fiction
- Age ratings
- ESRB EUSK 6ACB PG
- Languages
- English, Japanese
About
Battle Hunter, known in Japan as Battle Sugoroku: Hunter (バトルすごろく ハンター, Batoru Sugoroku Hantā) and in Europe as The Hunter, is an anime-styled tactical role-playing game, released for the PlayStation in 1999. It was released in Japan as part of the SuperLite 1500 series of budget games. The game revolves around a player-controlled hunter that must compete with three other hunters in order to win a relic, and makes heavy use of traditional RPG conventions such as dice and tile-based movement.
›Story
In Battle Hunter, play as a warrior that battles monsters and collects treasures from dungeons. To do this the player must go into a dungeon and find the target item that must be acquired. However, monsters are also lurking around plus the boss who will pop out if the game goes to long! The player may also fight other warriors to get their items (this is useful if someone else has the target item).
Keywords
- anime
- turn-based
- pvp
- playstation network
- tactical rpg ( trpg )
- trpg
- digital distribution
- psone classics
- playstation tv support
- backwards compatibility
- hot-seat multiplayer
Media
The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Gameplay
Gameplay centers around hunting and retrieving relics in a dungeon represented by a randomly generated grid. Four hunters are always present in the dungeon, with the computer controlling any hunters that are not controlled by the players. Before entering a dungeon, the player(s) are given a mission to retrieve a key relic hidden in one of the treasure boxes in the dungeon. Other treasure boxes contain other relics, but only the key relic is required to win any one mission. The player has 3 options: moving, attacking and resting (which will give him/her 2 cards and quarter of his/her Hit Points back).
When creating a hunter, players are given 11 initial ability points to spend on Movement, Attack, Defense, and Hit Points. Raising stats uses the following system:
Story
In the years after a major world war, the few scientists remaining on Earth set out to develop a formula to protect humanity from extinction. To be successful they require vital information from the ruins of cities around the world, and assign the task of collecting it to an elite task force known as the Hunters. The story revolves around the player getting jobs from the shop owner to recover relics of interest from dungeons. Eventually the player will compete against a secret organization known as B PHS for the target relics.
Reception
The game received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of 24 out of 40.
Releases by platformdates and regions as published
Editions and related releases
- Included in
- SuperLite 3in1 Series: Game Shuu
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