Much Ado About Everything

And no sooner my cheeks have dried up from Final Fantasy Eight ending, I already started playing Wild Arms 4.

My first thoughts – whoa!  Did that guy just speak?  Maybe I’ve been playing old PS1 games a bit too much?  You think?

Anyhow, so far it most definitely fits within cliches mentioned on that”>http://project-apollo.net/text/rpg.html”>that site.  A young boy, skipping class in the morning, making a promise with a girl he never saw before, the village gets destroyed, something crashes up from the sky spectacularly, you name it.  And finally a cutscene at the end of it all – none in the beginning by the way.  The cutscene looked like a genuine action anime opening, except a bit longer.  But it really looked like that – many scenes cut from the future episodes, rather than something related directly to the story so far.  Interesting, I can’t say I recall seeing an into like this in a game before.  In the loop before the game starts, yes.  Not as part of the actual game story.

Anyway, the story looks decent so far, but not more than that.  The gameplay itself though is not bad, if for no other reason than because it’s different.  We’ll see where it goes from here.