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Tarfumes.com - Skies of Arcadia : Legends
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Our Price: $64.90
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Manufacturer: Sega of America
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Amazon Maximum Age: 20
Amazon Minimum Age: 144
Binding: Video Game
Brand: Sega of America
EAN: 0010086610185
ESRB Age Rating: Teen
Feature: Experience a full 3D world with a highly imaginative storyline, including new plot details and improved character graphics.
Label: Sega of America
Manufacturer: Sega of America
Platform: GameCube
Publisher: Sega of America
Studio: Sega of America
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Features
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Experience a full 3D world with a highly imaginative storyline, including new plot details and improved character graphics.
Use over 70 weapons and 36 magical skills to make your party the scourge of the skies. Explore six enormous virtual lands with landscapes ranging from massive deserts and quaint villages to the cold reaches of outer space.
Customize your own airship and gather up to 22 crew members to help attack or protect against other ships.
Hand-to-hand and ship-to-ship combat featuring spectacular spell effects, amazing special attacks, and an improved battle engine.
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Editorial Reviews:
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You must gather your own crew of air pirates and journey through uncharted skies to vanquish the empire from every corner of the map. Along the way, you'll wage battles against savage monsters and evil Pirates as you make a name for yourself on land and in the sky. For the first time you can experience the complete story of the critically acclaimed RPG, with hours of new gameplay containing additional background stories
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating: 
Summary: Little known, but a classic RPG
Comment: When first I played Skies of Arcadia on the Sega Dreamcast, I faced an utterly daunting challenge to beat the first boss. Failed at my attempt and hadn't played in a very long while. Recently, I came to purchase the title on the GameCube and I couldn't have been happier. The game itself is a fair challenge to gamers of all ages, and it has an innovative element system unused by any other RPG. Boss battles are a little tedious, rather drawn out by the sheer HP totals of the foes. In all, I do honestly recommend the game to any true RPG gamer, and it's worth the price if you can find it.
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Summary: Still My Favorite RPG of All Time
Comment: Skies of Arcadia is a game with a real sense of exploration. The game shuns most cliches of plot and character development by including memorable characters you actually care about rather than cartoon cliches. The gameplay and combat is simple and but addictive and memorable. The game continually expands, dishing up new types of gameplay and unique areas to explore in your airship. Ship combat and the crew system further enhances the variety.
Keep in mind that this GameCube remake tones down the battles significantly, fixing the main problem that some had with the original DreamCast remake. The visuals are very last-generation (maybe even before that), but you'll be caught up so much in the experience that you won't mind.
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Summary: It's been 5 years now...
Comment: I purchased this game when it came out in 2003 and couldn't wait until I got home to play it. The first day I played it, I spent 6 hours playing and not knowing where the time went. After I beat the game, I, of course, moved on with my life playing games, going to school, etc.. Still, I haven't found a game more satisfying to play than this game. But enough reminiscing, let me tell you why I love this game.
First off, the story. I know several elements of the game's story are a bit cliche, such as having to defeat an evil empire, finding a certain number of ancient crystals to protect innocents from being subject to their power, a love triangle, and such. However, the CHARACTERS of this game really make the story evolve from a basic plot to an exciting adventure story. Main man Vyse is courageous, cool, and likable. Far from the moody, depressed heroes of many modern RPGs. Everyone that Vyse meets in the game has a personality, and when these characters act, it really feels like they are actual people in an actual world that could exist. What they say and do is the most influential aspect of this game, making the story into a far deeper element than "beat the bad guys, save the world, get the girl."
The next aspect is the design of the game. This is an enhanced port of a Dreamcast title, so if you played this before, you won't find too many new things here. However, seeing all the action of the game take place in the sky on floating islands and airships is a whimsical sight to behold, and it really creates some memorable scenes in the game when all you can see is ships fight and the sky. The music is epic, from pirate themes to sorrowful tunes, the orchestrated music is wonderful. Unfortunately, this Gamecube port has lower quality music that the original. If you want cleaner music, I suggest the Dreamcast original. Another downer is the graphics. They are not bad by any means, but the full extent of the Gamecube's graphical power is not used here. Yes, it has higher polygon counts than the original, but several characters appear to be somewhat blocky. But to seriously look down on the game for that reason is folly. However, if perfect graphics are your dig, move on.
Next, the combat. Just like in the original, there are quite a few random encounters in this game. Not as many, but still a lot. I know many people don't like this, but that's the way the game is made. The actual combat is turned based, like many RPGs, but the most unique aspect of the combat is the Spirit Point meter. You get a certain amount of "SP" each round, and they are shared by all members of the party. They are used for magic and special moves, adding strategy and planning to the combat. The other unique aspect are the ship battles. They are similar to normal combat, but they are ship-to-ship, and they require different strategy because of the different weapons your ship can use. You slot in the moves and watch the battle go. Some may find this slow and frustrating, others, like me, do not.
The last thing is the extra stuff. While sailing, you can find hidden locations and objects called "Discoveries." Finding these will earn you money at local towns. There are more Discoveries in this version that the Dreamcast title. There is optional Moonfishing side story that lets you play through a subplot involving a vengeful pirate hunter, a doctor, a little girl, and a bird. This quest is also new. Also, there is a small list of strong bounties to collect, new to this version. Aside from those things, there is a special weapon just for Vyse later in the game, and a special boss to fight. Doing all this stuff increases your rank, changing the way people talk to you and the way to find new things.
Indeed, this game is not perfect, but I believe once you get involved in the game's many great qualities, you will overlook its small flaws. The intriguing setting and characters will entice you and make you want to keep playing. This is one of the Gamecube's more overlooked titles, and I recommend this title to anyone with a Gamecube. You won't regret it. I didn't, and haven't been for 5 years.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A flawed masterpiece...
Comment: Standard turn-based RPG battle system, check. Damsel and world in distress, check. Numerous random battles, ugh.
Yet, this game transcends the sum its parts. The story is absorbing, the sail, explore, and discover new worlds aspect is engrossing, and the playable characters (yup, all three of them) are endearing. Isn't that why RPG enthusiasts get such a kick out of this genre. It's the disparate, loner characters, banding together and forming a family, and along the way (if the game is any good) they become our friends.
I highly recommend this game. Look past the out-dated graphics, and keep pushing through those random battles, because what unfolds is definitely worth the trouble.
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Summary: The best rpg of all time.................
Comment: Why do people play rpg's? I can't answer that question for other people as everyone has their own taste and their own reasons, but i can tell you the reason why i play rpg's is because i like to feel like i am in a world of fantasy and adventure, a world where anything is possible and where the sound of the wind resonating quitely against the breeze preordains a future of uncertain destiny. This game brings the gamer a feeling of adventure the whole way through and throws you right into the story. You start as vise, a young sky pirate who plunders treasure from other pirates in the skies of arcadia, as vise and his father navigate the skies they come across an airship belonging to alfonso of the valvuan armada, they decide to plunder the airship and thats when the story takes off. Throughout the game you encounter different enemies both in airships and in single hand to hand battles, the game is basically about the valvuan empire trying to take over the world, Fina, the mysterious stranger, completing her "mysterious" voyage, and vyse fighting the empire for the good of the world and the sheer joy of pissing them off. Once the story begins to unfold you are automatically drawn into a world of diverse cultures and environments, places like ika'taka, nasrad, and valvua are just a few of the areas you will encounter along your journey, you will meet different people and everywhere you go will bring you satisfaction as you keep records on your journal of all the places you've explored.
THE GRAPHICS
Yes this game came out orginally for the sega dreamcast and so there weren't many visual improvements done to the game, but this was still the best looking rpg on the gamecube and the visuals match the game perfectly. the specials are those of your typical rpg with the razzle dazzle attacks, the magic attacks are also pretty cool to watch and the best part is, once you get your ship, it has a special also! The environments in my opinion look amazing and the clouds shifting softly through your ships propellers just add to the feeling of actually flying.
THE GAMEPLAY
The game play is basically the same as your typical rpg except for a few improvements in the battle mechanics, you encounter random battles, you lvl up with experience and moon stones allow you to learn specials, what really sets the game apart from your typical rpg's are the ship battles, which allow you to fight using a ship and crew to battle against enormous monsters and pesky valvuan airships. The ship battles are turn based and the commands closely resemble the commands used in regular hand to hand combat, you get to use magic, choose if you want to use evasive manuvers, or just attack with a cannon torpedo or special. The ship is fully costumizable in terms of crew and equipment, and it is one of the coolest vehicles i have ever used in any game.
THE STORY
The story is one of greed, hate, love, and betrayl, its about an adventurous young sky pirate reaching for the sky and protecting those he loves, its about a young woman trying to overcome the betrayel of her long time friend and about a dictator who wants nothing more than power for rebuilding what he deems a lost civilization. This is what epic legends are made off!
REPLAY VALUE
To me one of the most important things in a video game is will i want to play the game over after i'am done. The answer for skies of arcadia is a certified yes. acquaring the ultumate weapons, all the magics, all of the specials for every character, all of the crew member for the delphenus, and the best weaponry for the delphenus, plus completing the discovery journal and if your a true fanatic, getting all of your character to level 99 and increasing their strength to 999 using the power seeds, this game has some of the highest replay value out of any game ever.
In conclusion skies of arcadia promises nothing less than one of the best "evil empire" stories ever narrated in a video game, beautiful visuals, and gameplay that is going to keep you coming back for hours on end, (i beat the game 4 times!), so if you are an rpg fan, then you owe it to yourself to pick this one up, you will not be disappointed.
Game play: 5/5
Replay value: 5/5
Story: 5/5
Graphics: 4.5/5
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