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"How fantastic is skies of Arcadia?"

Despite naff graphics I am loving this Skies game. Picked it up along with 3 other games (see my £50 in cambridge thread) for a mere £19 and I can't imagine a closer RPG alternative to Zelda. Vast, expansive, encourages exploration and a deep story. In fact as storylines go it moves at a far faster pace than that Wind Waker game.

Great game, feels a bit like Starfox to play (not quite sure why) but of course i mean that in a good way.

If you can find it buy it. You won't regret it. Roll on Skies 2.

The random battles are pretty infrequent conpared to a lot of other RPGs. You can go a far way sometimes without battling. It wouldn't be so bad if you could heal up at the save points.

Still rocks. Muchly.

Random battles get less anoying once you get the ability to go above and below the normal cloud limit, this is after you get back from the purple moon crystal dungeon.

The random battles haven't got annoying thus far...

Perhaps toneing them down slightly would be better... but they're not pure hell yet.

If I want mini games I would buy Super Monkey Ball. If I want one of the best and most solid RPG I will play Skies of Arcadia.

Notorious Biggles wrote:
> DreamWarBird wrote:
> I have this on Dreamcast, and not being a massive RPG fan.
>
> Ive spent alot of time playing this game (30+ hours), but i put it
> down cause of the many random battles.
>
> Still have it?

Yep :)

Tiltawhirl wrote:
> I thought it was good, but I sold my copy before I finished it because
> I couldn't be ar$ed to play it anymore.
>
> Got up to the bit where Fina and bloke bird get split up from Vyse,
> then never played it again.
>
> The random battles bored me and I just lost the will to play it
> anymore.

My God! that was only half way through the game, more or less. That was hardly anything in the main story of it all.

ÂLŠ†ÂÎR wrote:
> That can be said for any RPG. SOA is about as diverse as they come.

Not at all - the obvious comparison here is FF. Every FF has got tons of mini-games (some of which could be sold as complete games in themselves). Snowboarding in FF7, triple triad in FF8, Chocobo treasure hunting in FF9.. all the little opera and musical sections that are a break from the usual.

I can't think of one point in the 50+ hours I spent playing SOA where the gameplay varied off the path of flying around searching the map, fighting random/boss battles and watching cut scenes. There were barely even any puzzles - just button switching ones a la Tomb Raider.

I love random battles. Well, in things like FF I do. An essential part of the game you see...

I thought it was good, but I sold my copy before I finished it because I couldn't be ar$ed to play it anymore.

Got up to the bit where Fina and bloke bird get split up from Vyse, then never played it again.

The random battles bored me and I just lost the will to play it anymore.

That can be said for any RPG. SOA is about as diverse as they come. Even the latest and greatest KOTOR is just more of the same set in different areas under different stories. Much more varies the latter Final Fantasy games.