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Arc the lad: twilight of the spirits

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

my first arc the lad game, not bad! at times it gets boring but if you really get into games, this is one you'll have to check out. It only takes a lil over 50 hours to beat but its worth your time. Minus the long conversations and this game will rock!

There will always be hope...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I absolutely loved this game despite the fact that I had never heard or seen the Arc the lad series. I had a lot of low expectations of it, because I use to feel that no rpg game compared to Final Fantasy 7 but this game changed me completely. Okay, here's alitte sneak peak in my own words. You play two main characters who have a strong secret (no spoiling) connection to each other and fight hard to defeat and rid the world of basically humans or monsters called "Deimos" depending on which side you prefer (you are basically both). I choose deimos =D. Anyway, comes down to the fact that there's a big bad guy wanting to destory the world and you for the first time have to defeat him by bringing hope and peace between humans and deimos for a brief time. It's just really captivating. I am a REALLY picky gamer...but trust me if you like rpgs and drama plots or dig the series this should be on your list. I hope I helped out!
=D

Good game, combat gets very repetitive

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The story to this game progresses quite nicely and alternating story lines add to the interest. The combat, however, becomes quite repetitive after a while and starts to detract from the game. The use of voice acting is also quite inconsistent, with some cut-scenes using voice and others using text in seemingly the same sorts of situations.

Arc the Lad Twilight of the Spirits Review

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Arc Lad has been generally speaking a very solid series of turn based strategy role playing games and i'm happy to say Arc the Lad Twilight of the Spirits is, though a little different, no exeption. The primary difference is the combat system the first three games used a turn based gridmap to move and fight, this game uses a radius around the character simalar to the one in Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter.

Give it a chance!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Arc the Lad Twilight of the Spirits is one of the most amazing things I have played in awhile. I bought it a year ago, put an hour in to it, and it drifted to the back. Now I have picked it up again, and I am completely obsessed.
First off, Arc the Lad doesn't revolutionize anything. Not a big deal. It's your typical RPG, it's battle system is like a REALLY dumbed down tactical style. Everyone has a sphere of movement, and you run up to a guy and select attack, or heal or whatever. This obviously isn't where the game shines. (I will note that just because it isn't a distinguishing feature, it's not bad. Leveling up is pretty fun, and you get to do neat dual attack combo limit break things.)
The story is what made me fall in Arc the Lad. You have this really tense world inhabited by Deimos and humans. Well, a human girl and a winged demon fell in love and had two kids. One went with a mom, and turned out human looking. The other with the father, and he looks half demon/half human. So, while the humanish kid grew up and had the perfect life, the other brother was beat on, abused, and lives this horrible life. The game has a lot of themes of racism, and even though it seems trite, or forced, it plays out really nicely.
The story is unbelievable and has a lot of great moments. The game is getting a little hard to find now, so if you are at all interested in this great rpg- you should probably try to find this asap.

Pretty Good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 17, 2008
Author: Amazon User

It was quite interesting. As you play it tells you 2 different stories: one of a human and the other as a demon. I enjoyed playing it! It's pretty good!

Absolutely a nice game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 19, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is definitively not the best RPG game, but for certain one of the best, I really like this game except for Arc The Lad - End of Darkness, they shouldn't have done that crap, in the other hand, there is an interesting series of this game, i'd like to have all the PS1 Arc the Lad but the collection is kinda expensive :-S

good but not keeping up with hack

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 10
Date: July 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

this game is good but u should go with hack the bad thing about arc the lad is for one the battle system is very boaring and the game is hard to understand but waht it does have is good sounding rpg music and the graphics are pretty good but overall it gets 3 stars because at least they tried but i should say save ur money for the hack series much better game.

good but not great

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is a good rpg to play. There are some definite problems with how the characters look. (look at their fingers in some scenes) and sometimes you just want them to shut up so you can go kick some butt, but overall the story is good and the graphics are great with an awesome battle system that ffx2 seems to have ripped off a little bit. overall definetely worth to rent to see if you're interested in buying.

Good, but too predictable, cliched, and flawed.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Arc The Lad TOTS is a good game but definitely not a great one.

+ Graphics, voice acting are great. Sound is ok. Some interesting characters. Dual character switching keeps the story fresh.
+/- Battle system, weapons.
- Incredibly predictable storylines and characters (with the exception of maru and darc.) No new weapons to be obtained. Battle system gets repetitive quickly along with the random battles when moving on map. Characters movements do not match with talking, and repeat in loops.

Arc the Lad is a relatively fun RPG for the PS2. I would recommend renting it first before purchasing unless you can get it for 10 bucks or less. The game isn't for everyone, but I personally enjoyed it despite its flaws. There are better RPG's available though so if you don't like it keep searching.

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