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Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Top 50 Games #38: Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits


WHAT'S IT ABOUT:
This is a game of two stories for the two main races in this game, humans and deimos or humanized monsters.  On the human front is Kharg, the leader of Yewbell's Defense Corps who vows to destroy all deimos after the death of his mentor.  On the deimos front is Darc, who vows to be the king of all deimos by being the strongest deimos ever and then destroy all humans.  To achieve their goals, they need to find the Five Great Spirit Stones to get the unlimited power necessary.  Of course things can never be that simple since the evil Dilzweld Empire also wants the stones to be the greatest country on whatever planet this takes place in.

WHY I LIKE IT:
This game is awesome!  The story is great.  It's told with lots of layers and very rich themes told at a fast, at times too fast, pace.  The game has decent graphics and good voice-acting.  It may be a tactical RPG with all its trappings but don't let that stop you since it's a better made example of the genre.  Finally, while it may help to play the other games in the franchise since there are some references to them but you don't have to since it  stands alone pretty well.  This is probably the best totally, utterly blind buy that I got.

MY FAVORITE PART:
Volk's intro in Chapter 2 and then you realize that he was just some guy in Chapter 1.

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