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Almighity RPG

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 01, 2001
Author: Amazon User

For starters, this game is possibly the greatest Dreamcast game out right now. The graphics are sharp, the storyline keeps you into the game until the very end, and instead of one battle system (like in most games) there are two battle systems. A Normal battle system and a airship battle system, thats only one good thing about the game. Skies of Arcadia has TONS of characters to earn, about 40 to be exact. The battle systems take a while to understand but once you get used to it you will probaly think this is probaly the most realistic battle system out there (its more realistic than the Final Fantasy IX system, and thats pretty realistic).

Pros- *Fun long lasting gameplay *great storyline *VERY creative *extremely long story

Cons- *Bosses sometimes get way too hard Sega did a great job with this one. A pure Masterpiece. Get this game, it is worth the buy.

The one RPG that turned me into a gamer

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I haven't played a lot of RPGs, but Skies of Arcadia definitely won me over. Contrast from most insufferably dark, gloom, never-seen-a-sunshine-style adventure or RPG games, this game features a rather bright, casual and positively designed background and theme. The story is so beautiful and moving that I played the game over and over again (invested over 180 hrs into it over all) just to "watch the movie" again. You grow to become so fond of the characters (every single one of them!) in the game, that you cannot help but play it again. And it has a wonderful ending too! Vyse is definitely got a charming personality, I liked a lot of the lines he said.

Certainly, as a turn-based game, this one got the same problem regarding too many random fights and long action/magic special effects that you cannot skip (yes you can skip the special move clip by pressing the 'start' key but magic cannot be skipped). Those before-the-fight round-the-coliseum foreplay and end-of-the-battle showoffs quicly become repetitive and irritating. I really hoped they could have added the 'start' button skip option to those video clips as well. Also, some of the discoveries are simply too hard to find, even by the help of walk-through I still couldn't find it. Maybe the walk-through I used was wrong.

Some tips: be patient and increase your character's levels as much as possible. Since in the final fight I usually use Prince Enrique to fight the biggest bosses, train him as much as you can when he's around (the 4th person of the party changes from time to time, and it was according to the storyline, not controlled by the player until the very end when you needed to fight the biggest boss). In the last time I trained them to level above 60, so not only the final fights became real easy, but also it became much harder for them to faint (you can sell all your Riselem crystals). For fast training, the Looper Ocean in the upper left of the map is the best place. Although those loopers are so hard to hit (they don't have a lot of points, but they are very hard to hit), but they offer the most experience points once you get them. They are immune to magic and usually immune to special moves. The only one that gets them all the time is Vyse's special move Rain of Swords. Purple and blue loopers give you the most experience points. When you get all loopers purple or blue, call yourself lucky! They gave me so much pain until I trained the whole party to have 14 initial spirit points so that Vyse can use Rain of Swords immediately. What a pleasure it was to kill all loopers on the screen by a single shot with none of them able to escape!!

Besides that, there's nothing much I have to say. This is a pretty easy game, most ppl will be able to finish it on the first run unless you are too uncautious. Overall, a highly recommended game. Don't miss it, it's definitely worth the money!

The Dreamacast's No1 RPG

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Skies of Arcadia is an absolute masterpiece, I can remember back in 2001, when it was released in England and i picked it up immediatly after hearing rave reviews. It really did live up to the hype, unfortunately much like the Dreamcast it was criminally overlooked, although im sure most people who owned a Dreamcast did buy it.

The combat itself is nothing special, in fact the turn based battles are pretty slow, not as flowing as the active time battles of most Final Fantasy games. The beauty of the game doesn't lie in the battles though, the plot is where all good RPG's excel and this is no different. Exploring the planet is great fun in itself, despite the random battles (which you can later avoid), and the plot moves along superbly right until the end of the game. Where this game really innovates though is in the ship battles.

The ship battles are excellent, rather than fighting as a party, as you do for most of the game, you instead pit your ship against another ship, sometimes even monsters, though usually an enemy pirate or general from the armada. If you have played the game you will know how good these battles are, and what a joy the game is to play. If you still have a Dreamcast picking up dust and you don't already own this, you could do no better than to pick it up. It also came out for the Gamecube, which I believe was basically the same game.

A truly classic RPG, which deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as other classics like Final Fantasy 7, superb.

Memory Maker

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

There a few games that provide wonderful, enjoyable and everlasting memories. Skies of Arcadia is such a game. This game has such beautiful environments, scenery and characters that you immediately fall in love with them. You even learn to love the villians.

Whenever I hear the soundtrack, I feel utter nostalgic and would recount the events in my life during my game time with SOA. I nothing but the best opinions for SOA.

Unfortunately, Sega Overworks will not release a sequel to SOA. The sequel was in the planning stages but later scrapped because the GameCube Director's Cut did not sell well. In fact, the GameCube version of SOA sold worse than the Dreamcast version. Thus, SOA 2 was tossed in the bit bucket.

I only have one copy of SOA and Dreamcast. I'm keeping these for life. You can have them after you pry them out of my cold, dead hands.

Forever a Champion

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have ejoyed this game from the moment I put it in my Dreamcast to the second I completed it some 90 hours later (yes I am slow). The Graphics are somewhat dated and blocky but they're good enough and in the long run are not that important anyway. Skies is just plain fun, it keeps you wanting more with interesting characters and a well executed story line. I recomend this to anyone and if you don't own a dreamcast GET ONE or buy the gamecube version, either works and I doubt you'll be disappointed!

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