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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.

Depends how you look at it. I enjoyed them as levelling up was made such a blast in SOA. Not annoying for me to be honest.

That doesn't stop them from being annoying.

Without the battles you wouldn't be able to level up to fight the harder bosses. Now sieze your inane ramblings and enjoy one of the finest games to date. Was my favourite RPG until Knights of the Old Republic. Now that is truly unbeatable.

Nearly finished Skies and will be back to it within the next week.

Bought it. Played it. got annoyed with random battles. Sold it.

Great game, though.

Best game I've ever played. Finished it a couple of days ago.
I thought it made Zelda look very ordinary.

Sure, it wasn't perfect.
Random battles were annoying until you could avoid them, though lambda burst / omega cyclone (with everyone else on guard and holding z to avoid the move's animation) could finish most of them within one turn anyway, so it wasn't really that bad.

But the plot and the attention to detail were amazing. And there was so much to do outside the main quests. It's even converted me to turn-based combat games.

Best game I've ever played.


*Puts MWA in prison*
The sentence for not liking what I like is death :^P

I took it back and the they told me it was a crime to do such a thing.

So I commited a crime. Apparently.

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?

SOA:L is a great game, but there are several flaws with it. Next one must include:

1) The plot/script is utter toss. Needs to be redone waay better, with full voice over, for the second.

2) Random battles need to be sorted out - most of the time its okay, just sometimes it happens far too oten.

3) Graphics/Sound (obviously)

4) More lentghy side quests. Discoveries don't really count - most you find simply by flying to an odd island.


and generaly improve it. I've nearly finished it now, but I haven't touched it for several weeks...

Tis great though.

Random battles were VERY annoying sold it off cos i need the money :)

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.