RPG Backtrack Episode 190: A Wii ARF
Arc Rise Fantasia is a game that received something of a bad deal when it was localized, and even now hasn’t been experienced by many. Perhaps a few converts will be made after listening to this episode.
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At least this will be a decent year for turn based RPGs. Dragon quest 11 and octopath traveler. I’m glad some developers will still make what a lot of us still want.
Amen!
The battle system in ARF sounds quite interesting! I initially listened to just the Final Lap just to hear the turn-based shoutout, but went back and listened to it all today. I loved Cassandra’s (and Phil’s) take on the battle system and game overall – reminds me of the Grandia episode where awesome gameplay outweighed everything! I forgot I set the speed to 1.2X and wondered the entire time when Cassandra stopped to take a breath. Thanks for the review, maybe one day this will get a port to a portable Nintendo system!
I would love nothing more (gaming-wise, anyway) than for ARF to get a port/remake to modern platforms (particularly the Switch).
And yeah, I sometimes speak quickly when excited, but not that quickly. XD