>There was a kickstarter for a Wild Arms sequel
>I missed it
What a shame. Might have been the first scamstarter I fell for, miss them Wild Arms a lot.
>There was a kickstarter for a Wild Arms sequel. >I missed it
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It also came with a Shadow Hearts successor which I'm more excited about
I liked Wild Arms better but Penny Blood looks a lot cooler than Armed Fantasia
I backed both, Penny Blood is likely to be better as AF is going to follow up the style of Wild ARMS 4/5, not 1/2/3.
>as AF is going to follow up the style of Wild ARMS 4/5, not 1/2/3.
Eh I don't mind.
Hopefully they bring the HEX system back since it was what set it apart from it's peers gameplay-wise.
>its 2023 and people are still falling for reboot slop.
Cant wait for it to come out and be shit like every other kickstarted "sequel" to some dead frenchise.
Fun fact, the Armed Fantasia character designer primarily draws gay porn. Lots of Rex (shota) from Xenoblade stuff.
Is it the guy from WA5? That dude also did yaoi on the side.
The art quality was solid though.
>Is it the guy from WA5? That dude also did yaoi on the side.
Same dude.
Lmao, kinda gay.
>kinda gay
Nah, very gay.
I think I recognize that artist, he made a ton of Skies of Arcadia doujins, and some Hispanicy fanart for Baten Kaitos and SH. Pretty good taste t.bh
Apparently it is a broad
Wild Arms is one of the few JRPG series that just totally passed me by, what's great about them? Which one would be the best to start with?
Classic JRPG adventures with Wild West theming (some games more than others), killer soundtracks, enjoyable playable casts and Shonen Anime vibes complete with anime openings
2 is a fan favorite but has a -really- janky translation, I personally started out with 3 which leans the hardest on the Western aspect although it takes a while for the gameplay to really get going
I only beat 1 and 3, but they were really solid with great dungeons and the Force mechanics were also pretty fun. They won't blow your mind or anything like that, but I'd recomend them.
>Which one would be the best to start with?
The first one, I played both the PS1 original and the PS2 remake and even if a huge discussion could be made about which one is better, they're both great games.
>what's great about them?
Wild West setting is unique and really sets itself apart starting in Wild Arms 3
Puzzles are amongst the most fun in the genre
A bajillion end-game superbosses at the end of each of the games
An underrated aspect of them is the sound effects and UI are super pleasing. Starting at Wild Arms 3, every NPC gets a character portrait.
>Which one would be the best to start with?
You can probably play the first one and then crush the entire series including AC: F which is a remake of the first game but revamped in every aspect as to definitely be considered a different game. XF is the only one I'd skip.
If you're pressed for time or have a fat backlog and can't prioritize an entire series, 3 is definitely the best.
People keep skipping the important part: gameplay (except 4) is Zelda dungeons with turn based encounters.
It seemed too generic anime JRPG to me and not enough wild west. It was like a hint of western themes and the rest is like modern JRPG waifushit. Pic related, you would not expect any of these characters to be from a wild west RPG at all if you had no idea what the game was.
I dunno, i think you’re underselling it a bit. The two on the right pass the test, especially hat+dress girl, who really does nail it.
I can’t say I’m there for the blonde and the kid though, the blonde’s probably the worst of them.
However, and this is where I’ll cut some slack, while Wild Arms is predominantly a Western, it almost always leans into Sci-Fi. There’s an allowance for it in my mind as to how far they go. The other big guy who’s not in that picture also looks super western, so there’s also a bit of selection bias here.
wasn’t there like, a vote thing for the designs from the backers? I don’t know if I dreamed that up. That sorta explains some of the genericness on the leads though
they look a bit overdesigned to me
very "modern" anime
also i don't like women in video games almost ever, they're usually especially annoying in modern japanese games
i just don't think any media is made for me anymore
Every JRPG female is designed to do one thing now and be coomerbait. I mean its always been that way but they'd at least have some personality. But now its blatant in the designs, making them look both as lewd and as cute as possible, and they all have that cutesy style personality, you know that one. The one every girl has in anime and JRPGs now.
>”Very Modern” as he posts a game 15 years old as his example
The issue is you’re a jaded fuck, nothing else has changed.
Luso's key art is trash but there's absolutely nothing wrong with him as a protagonist
>kid gets isekai'd for the summer
>stops the mafia
>refuses to get too involved emotionally
TA2 is a great game. Not as good as FFT, but very few things are.
I still prefer Ramza and March, but don't particularly have much to complain about Luso... well TA2 characters in general felt rather inoffensive even if I did rather like designs of Cid, Vaan with shirt, etc.
WA5 is my guilty pleasure game, in fact I am replaying it right now.
I dunno what the devs were smoking at that point of time but it was so goofy and sometimes the tone would go from melodramatic to corny so fast it would make your head spin. Just watch this cutscene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSohBN9m9Mw
My favorite part is evil Chuck Norris and his gay journalist friend.
Will he be back?
Damn I loved this fight in every single game.
He had 8 incarnations according to the book in Marivel's castle. I think we killed them all.
>WA
>WA2
>WA3
>WA4
>WA5
>WA:AC:F
>WA:XF
>WA:TV
Well actually I didn't watch WA: TV so idk
then again he had 2 incarnations in WA3 so maybe that counts
Alter code f was a remake of 1 though, wasn't it?
One of the lorebooks explains that at least the first three Wild Arms games take place in a multiverse (Rudy's arm that was cut off in the first game and sent through a dimensional rift gets found and melted down and becomes the Arget Lahm from what I remember a lorefriend explaining to me on another forum)
Alter Code: F is just a different dimension from Wild Arms 1. They are both "canon" like Earth 1 and Earth 2 from the DCU for instance where each dimension has slight differences.
The book in Marivel's castle (in the room you recruit her in, you have to go allll the way back to it afterwards since it teleports you out after the cutscene) describing a multidimensional entity which is most likely Ragu since he's the only one that shows up in every game.
As excited as I was to see this come to life, taking a step back and looking at the character designs makes me not so hopeful for this game's story to be good. It'll be 4 and 5's level of Nu-Shounen bullshit.
Will be more 4 than 5, most likely, as 5 was written by a third party author (some VN chick I think?). I just want a world map and tools.