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« on: August 04, 2011, 03:12:42 AM »
Just finished Arc Rise of Fantasia WII and here's a quick review.
It's basically as what most people stated, it's an low-production JRPG game will the same look as a Tales game but with different gameplay. The story is a snore will all kinds of problems and the characters are very by the book for this genre.
As for the combat, this the only area where the game tries to be different and it ends up failing for the most part. Basically you have zero control over your stats, there's only one selectable armor slot, ect so you're basically stuck with whatever the game gives you. Now you still get to do some tweaking but it's all done with weapons tweaks and blocks. It's kinda hard to explain but your weapon has slots and special abilites that unlock as they level up. These mods come off in blocks (like Tetris) and each weapon has a grid where you can place those blocks--basically an 4 by 4 grid. Fill the block and it's unlocks a special bonus to that weapon. Some mods are like Add defence, auto-cure, add hp ect.
Here's the ugly--bosses, midbosses, ect. You're going end up wasting alot of time and loss a few straids of hair over them because you really can't scan them all that well, for example it tells you what magic there are strong against and what they are weak against and their HP but it doesn't tell you what effects will work on them or are they immune. Basically they are more or less immune to anything that kicks ass so having all those mods like sickness (prevents the enemy for healing), silence, ect are utterly worthless. So you really don't get to many options on how to defeat enemies other than to relay on your combo excel (you group your special attacks together) while you defend and heal and wait for it to recharge. This can take hours. What's worse is the bosses can easily wipe out your party members with magic/spells/arts that you never seen up to that point so losing a fight after an hour or so is fairly common unless you're following a guide which I would recommend but I fought them without one and wasted hours (at least 6) on one boss alone.
O-yeah, you really shouldn't turn off the audio because you'll need it because the characters will give you clues on the enemies attacks. Not sure why the developers didn't give you a subtitile option or visual otherwise you can turn the voices off and just read the game because everything else has subtitles.
I can't recommend this game to anyone for any reason other than to punish themselves--a whooping 4 out of 10.
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