What can I say? It has some tracks that really catch the moment that we're living on the game, and others just keep repeating (ex: the dungeon track). Music: Not the worst game for the soundtrack, yet not the best too. The monsters have models that repeat in at least the first half of the game, only having a slight recolor to distinguish the weaker ones from the stronger ones, a critical thing to point yes, but in an anime like JRPG its a very common practice, but that doesn't erase the fact that is bad. All of them are easy to keep in mind and all of them have a very good development but I'll leave that for a path more ahead on this review. For the characters, all of them are easy to recognize (not counting with the NPC's that keep repeting themselvs through nearly every main city or town), you know Rastan like that bad ass adult that really shakes a tough atmosphere, Leslie the sexy shooter with somehow a very strong sense of duty and responsability and yet teasing personality. Some animations out of battle seem a little bit "lazy-made", by this I mean that when its not a cutscene or a battle there are almost no animations for most of the characters other than walk, run, punch, even when someone hands you something you don't see any sort of animation that supports the act. They are really good for Wii standarts and I believe if the game had an HD remaster it would still look good, The battle effects, expec arts, rogress summons, magic effects, they all look stunning (once again for Wii standarts). Some reviews point for some flaws of the game but they actually ignore completelly what is good in this game. Well today I can say that YES it is in my opinion one of the most underrated JRPG's of the last 10 years.
I can still look behind and see my younger self hoping this to be a good JRPG that would be even better than Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World. I can still look behind and see my younger self hoping It took me almost 7 years to pick the game up and decided to start from the beginning. It took me almost 7 years to pick the game up and decided to start from the beginning. A young woman named Adele, who has been a friend of L'Arc since childhood, renders assistance to the party through use of her unique form of combat, Luminomancy. L'Arc is severely injured during the battle, but is saved by a girl named Ryfia, who has secrets in her past and possesses the power to control "ley squalls," naturally occurring storms of no magic that usually take the form of luminous rain. When the empire receives word that a massive horde has its sights on the capital of Diamant, it immediately sends out an army to fight them, including L'Arc, a cool and collected novice mercenary, and his friend Alf, the beloved prince and second in line for the throne.
If one is killed, the resulting explosion poisons the local area. Creatures called "Contaminant Dragons" are causing trouble as they pass the Meridian in flocks. When the empire receives word that a massive horde has its sights on the capital Arc Rise Fantasia is set in the Meridian Empire.