Hey, im looking for a game.
Platform: PC (others too, idk)
Type: RPG, you level up and you spend points on stuff like strength. The combat system was magic/melee weapons, you could specialise in either. Turn-based, instance combat, from around year 2002-2007
The main protagonist is female character. The main antagonist - end game boss - is female character too.
I remember the game starting with the group of 3-4? by the campfire, and having some chest full of spoils. I think the final boss was in this group of people. Our playable female character too. everyone went sleep by the campfire. When woke up in the morning, the treasure was gone along with everybody (?)
We start in the global map, and can move to instanced areas like town/city, or just explore in general The encounters with monsters are random as you travel on the world map. The game is sort-of similar to septerra-core in terms of camera.
The combat is turn-based i think, you could charge 1/2/3 'pipes' of attack i think, cant remember
I remember perception stat increases 'initiative' so you attack firs. Each fight starts with initiative bars at the bottom, whichever drails/fills first starts the fist turn. The fight takes you 'out' of the world map into an instanced area, very similar to heroes3 battles.
There was this 'antimage' mid-level monster you could encounter sometimes that was immune to magic, so annoying. Maging was much easier earlygame than melee.
Endgame boss usually killed u in one hit. so you had to kill her first before she hit you.
I remember in oriental-samurai city there was a lovers quest where you could either bring them together, (i think the guy was common and the lady was noble thats where the problem was), or you could break it up.
I remember there were 3 main towns (or more? not sure) first was small town close to the campfire location on world map, 2nd was mid-level oriental city, 3rd was stone castle/city.
The plot is basically that the end-game female boss is sending more monsters on map, thats why there is harder world encounters over time.
P.S. i think the first town's gate was locked (for some reason) and we had to sneak-in or find the key to open it. Then the sheriff(?) gave us permission to travel the way we wishin the future.
P.S.2 I think that our female hero had brown hair, whilst the antagonist lady had blonde hair. They might have been sisters (?) Shes using some form of dark magic or some artifact to summon more powerful evil monsters to the realm, and is surprised when our lady hero refuses to join as she has 'redeemed' herself from past evil life (as shown at beginning of the game when they stole the treasure) through heroic actions.
Michael.