Vagrant Story
Overview
 
is a Japan
Japan
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ese-developed console role-playing game developed and published by Square
Square Co.
was a Japanese video game company founded in September 1983 by Masafumi Miyamoto. It merged with Enix in 2003 and became part of Square Enix...

 (now Square Enix
Square Enix
is a Japanese video game and publishing company best known for its console role-playing game franchises, which include the Final Fantasy series, the Dragon Quest series, and the action-RPG Kingdom Hearts series...

) for the PlayStation video game console
Video game console
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. The game was released in 2000, and has been re-released through the PlayStation Network for the PlayStation 3
PlayStation 3
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 and PlayStation Portable
PlayStation Portable
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 consoles eleven years later. Vagrant Story was primarily developed by the team responsible for Final Fantasy Tactics
Final Fantasy Tactics
is a tactical role-playing game developed and published by Square for the Sony PlayStation video game console. It is the first game of the Final Fantasy Tactics series and was released in Japan in June 1997 and in the United States in January 1998...

, with Yasumi Matsuno
Yasumi Matsuno
is a video game designer. He is one of a few designers to have two games receive a perfect score by Famitsu magazine. Vagrant Story and Final Fantasy XII were critically acclaimed by the magazine with a 40/40 score.-Early projects:...

 serving as producer and director.

The game takes place in the fictional kingdom
Fictional country
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 of Valendia and the ruined city
Ghost town
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 of Leá Monde.
Quotations

Reinforcements? I am the reinforcements.

Ashley Riot in the prologue.

Most men complacently accept ‘knowledge’ as ‘truth.’ They are sheep, ruled by fear. But you are different. Always calm, detached. A smooth flow of thought into action. Indeed…It is almost as if…As if you had no soul. How do you do it? Body and soul are one…yet; yours are separated, like a child from the knight in his storybook.

Warping the minds of men and shepherding the masses has always been your church's domain. You lure sheep with empty miracles and a dead god.

Yet mark your savior well, for he is one of the demons that you so fear.

In my dreams, I see an evil tyrant’s hands, which would choke the world. And he is the only one blind to his own folly.

You have seen demons walk the city streets, heard the cries of the dead and damned. You deny these things? Are they illusions?

A tyrant always dies alone, Guildenstern. Surrounded by silver-tongued leeches, he is utterly alone. He sows sorrow and reaps death.

The body is but a vessel for the soul, a puppet which bends to the soul's tyranny. And lo, the body is not eternal, for it must feed on the flesh of others, lest it return to the dust from whence it came. Therefore must the soul deceive, despise and murder men. - Quoted from A.J. Durai

Mullenkamp is a pack of rogues hiding behind a priest's frock!

In the very, very beginning there is a scene showing a meeting between Ashley and several VKP members. One of the officers says this.

All because of this religious freedom! Too much freedom, too many gods. Let those cultist cur-dogs run loose, and they will bite you. Gods! While our Parliament cowers...

VKP Officer.

 
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