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A major disappointment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 12
Date: July 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I was hoping for a western adventure. This game let me down. I was hoping for a unique RPG but boy was I wrong. This game is boring. I'm glad I got it at a clearance price. I reget ever getting this game. I hope I can sell it very soon.Don't waste your money.

OOOOOhhhhh Wild Arms 3

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: July 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Don't be fooled by the cover this game is just awful. The primitive battle system is grating. The storyline isn't even close to a western themed game. I know this is an RPG style western but it fails in that respect. It follows other RPG game formats to closely. It seems the creators of this game were too scared of losing RPG veterans interest in the game. A new concept for RPG would be most welcomed. I was hoping for a Wild West adventure but this is too much like other RPGs what a shame.

This game had so much potential.
Don't waste your money.

Bland, Predictable, Terrible RPG, Not worth your time!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 16
Date: February 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Wild Arms 3 is a terribly mediocre RPG that simply never should have been made.
The Good:
Relatively nice cel-shaded graphics. Period. Nothing else.
The Bad:
Incredibly flat characters, predictable and cliched storyline, repetitive and stupid battle system, lack of any good enemies, you can't get any new guns, music is very limited, doesn't sound like the Wild West.
Conclusion:
Wild Arms 3 could've been a good RPG worth 4 stars with some improvements, unfortunately the developers obviously didn't try very hard. Don't even bother with this game. Not worth your time at all. Try Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy X-2, Dark Cloud 2, Suikoden 3, or Grandia 2. They are much better than this game.

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 11
Date: January 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I love RPGs. The PS2 has produced some really excellent games for the genre including Final Fantasy X, the Shadow Hearts series, and Disgea: Hour of Darkness. Wild Arms 3 is not going to be joining this list of RPG awesomeness any time soon. It's not even going to be joining my list of decent RPGs. This game is terrible, and I just could not finish it! Trust me I tried and there was a period of two weeks when I couldn't bring myself to even turn the game on.

I thought a western-themed RPG would be something really unique, but I was wrong. This has got to be one of the most cliched things I've ever seen. It's the third in a series that appears to be rather popular. I did end up hating this game, but strangely I'm not totally put off from playing a Wild Arms game ever again. Maybe since this is the third game, it's just an unfortunate casuality of sequel-itis.

The Good:
The music's pretty good. It's appropriately whistlely and twangy like the fare you'd find in most spagetti westerns and really sets the western tone.

Fighting on horseback! This only unique from a visual point of view. The game still plays in exactly the same turn-based Final Fantasy-esque way as if you were on foot, but it looks really cool as you race across the desert fending off creepies.

Save Anywhere! You can provided you have an item called a Gimel Coin, but luckily those are easy to find.

The Bad:
Cliched plot. It starts out with promise. Your four heroes meet up during a train robbery when some burly gunmen try to steal an artifact belonging to this Indian Shaman tribe called the Baskars. Classic Western! Then the adventurers, called Drifters, team up and take an assignment from the Baskar's head Shaman to awaken the four guardians of the planet Filgaia so maybe the desertification of the planet will stop. It's down hill from there. Suddenly, instead of a Western game, I'm playing a cliched find the four scared elemental crystals/dragons/betamax VCRs quest.... but with firearms! Soon our foursome discovers that this weird demon cult is out to infuse the planet with evil energy and transform it into a demon world or some other rot by using guardians and ancient artifacts. So they set out, to discover why Filgaia is dying and play follow-the-bad guys. It's almost like playing Final Fantasy VII over again, and I never liked that game much in the first place.

Characters that come right out of anime central casting. The characters are very archetypal and never try to break out of their mold. You have Gallows, a ne'er-do-well Shaman, who learns some bland lesson on freedom, heritage, and self-actualization on the journey. Brainy, tough guy Clive, who might have been a better drawn character if his marital troubles were explored in more detail. Jet Enduro, surly anti-social amnesiac, and worst of the bunch Virginia Maxwell. For some reason they make her their leader even though she is the least expirenced of the bunch. She's naive, gulliable, and not all that smart trusting people she should know better than to trust and walking into obvious traps. She's one of those annoyingly perky types and her "Come on guys! Let's do our best for Justice, Truth, and blah blah" is more Big Bird than Clint Eastwood. She's also looking for the dead-beat dad she hasn't seen in 10 years. The anime feel is helped along by the video sequences (complete with corny songs) that sandwich the game when you begin and end it during each period of play. Trust me. It's frickk'n annoying after you've seen them ten times.

Sandcraft battles. During the game you get a sandcraft vehicle. If you run into a monster in this thing, the way the battles plays out is very different than on foot or horseback. That's not good because they battles are so bloody slow that they can last for over five minutes each!

The Ugly:
Healing Items are hard to find. Healing Items are scarce, so it becomes neccesary to ration stretigically. There are some sections of the game that are so hard that having a big cache of heal berries is the only way to stay alive. It adds challenge, but since I didn't enjoy the game it just it that more annoying.

Search system. If you want to find something on the map, you need to get directions first and move slowly across the map sending out some kind of sonar to make the ruin, town, or whatever appear. It's time consuming and also makes the game extremely linear.

Boring Level Design. You'll send more of you're time trekking through the various ruins that litter the landscape. In the ruins, you solve various puzzles ranging from easy to what am I supposed to do here? difficulty. A critic once said level design was key, and Wild Arms 3 makes me see how right he was. All the ruins look exactly the same. I know I'm throwing a switch in the ruin in the North, but I did the exact same thing in the ruin to the South which also had a box puzzle like the ruin in the West. Get my point? It feels like I'm doing the same thing over and over again. I'm not traveling to a Forest of Doom or a Cloud City of Eternal Happiness. It's just ruins and towns, and they all look the same!

horrible...just horrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 11
Date: November 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Well I am very disappointed...very.
Here are the bad things.
- Horrible graphics
- corny storyline
- no real voices
- same old battle system.

what else? Well for one the graphics repeat, the music is very annoying..it just keeps playing over and over the same part, and they don't even explain the complicated menus..you have to figure it out for yourself. The graphics are flat, and more like cartoon characters..obviously the creaters tried to make it look "cute" and save some time and $$. There is a reason it's cheaper than the other games..because it is cheap. it isn't worth the rent money either..

What were they thinking!?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: December 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

First off,I want to say that I loved wild arms 1 and 2;as such I was expecting to love wild arms 3....WHAT A DISSAPOINTMENT!

One extremely annoying new "feature" was the random battle encounter gauge.Unlike 2 where you would get a "!" above your head so that you could run away from a random battle,WA3 only lets you do this 10 times,then you HAVE to fight.

Another bad feature was the fact that everyone uses guns;you can hit with your fists(when your out of ammo)but it does such lame damage that it's not even worth trying.Also the personal skills system was changed for the worse(having to equip an item,fight so many battles and then having the item dissapear after you've learned the skill)

The characters and the story were also short of my expectations for the series.While janus & co.(bad guys) were sometimes funny and sometimes despicable,they were nowhere near as great as say liz & ard from part 2.The game also felt like it was TRYING to make a story just to give you a point to do things,whereas the previous two installments had great stories to them which also just happened to be games.

The only good thing about this game is the graphics;not the ahh and ooo 3D type,but the fact that all of the characters looked like they were hand painted with water colors,and that was impressive.The only noticable music in the game was the traditonal wild arms opening that's heard during the train scene after you play all four character intros.The very start was sung in voices with a hymn-like effect;very nice.Everything afterward is just hum drum,average run-of-the-mill.

All in all Wild Arms 3 is just another video game sequal that bombed!

Too Annoying to Play

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game gets my vote as the most annoying RPG ever. Combat takes forever, isn't done very well, and the enemies circle around the screen constantly moving the camera, which gave me a headache after an hour or so. But that isn't enough to take the game down, it gets worse.

I hated the combat within five hours of playing this game (enough to collect my party), and then came travel. Not something you'd think would be an ordeal. I never found the next town, I gave up after wandering around aimlessly on the map, using the 'locater' function, only finding enemies of a level far higher than my starting party. Over and over again, for two hours. This wasn't any fun. It had become too much of an annoying ordeal to play. That statement comes from someone who finished ET for the Atari 2600.

Overall, this game reminded me of the Super Nintendo game Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest with a better story, worse movement, and longer pointless combat.

Don't buy this game blind, I don't care how cheap this junk becomes. Borrow or rent first because you'll probably hate it. The combat is bad. Moving around on the map is bad. The plot is slow, I didn't get far enough into the game to judge overall. The second star is for the in-theme music, because the composer did do a decent job.

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2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 41
Date: January 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

THis is one of the werst games i've ever played. the game play is horable. o man...(sry to the fans of this game this is just wat i think) i would not sug jest you buy this game it is a waist of money.

Thats all for me.

Well....

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: December 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I was realy excited to get this game, I thought it looked realy good and worth while to play. but theres just something missing. I dont know if its just me...but having no cinematics is a major downfall in my opinion. plus the story just isnt that gripping..i dont realy care what happens next. the battle system is pretty good but the camera and the fact that theyre constantly running in pointless circles gets annoying...stand still for christs sake! the summons are cool and the graphics are ok. it just seems so generic. theres nothing that makes it stand out as a good game. the story isnt realy that great...it would seem as though they whipped this game up in a hurry. much like every other rpg i have played on ps2...it seems theyve been dumbed down for some reason. the games just dont compare to games on the old ps like lunar 2 and ff7. i hope beyond hope that this streak of dumbed down rpgs will end and we'll see another rpg experience like lunar 2 only for a new generation. but this game certainly isnt it.

A mixture of gaming styles

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: September 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is an excellent game for rpg fans who also have quick trigger fingers. However, if you are not good at platforming you will face some serious challenges. I was stymied part-way through the game by a door that would only open if 6 bombs were placed accurately within about 10 seconds. This will be a game ending challenge if you are not good at this sort of thing. The plot is interesting as are the characters. If you are interested in rpg's with more than a dash of platforming this is a great buy.

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