| Soriku said: Really. |
Skies of Arcadia is the first RPG I ever played and ended, The story was not mediocre, because I remember the story memorable stories are not mediocre, the story was good, the battle system was simple and fun, the ship battles were cool and was the first time I ever saw a ship battle in an RPG, there were enough characters in the game, the random battles did not suck, they were annoying but it gave you the opportunity to level up your characters, plus annoying random battles are in almost every RPG out there including Final Fantasy.
There are so many good things Sega did with this RPG from the different cities to the memorable characters, the moonstones, the backstory to each character, the boss battles, everything, this games is awesome, sure it doesn't have those epic cut-scenes like Final Fantasy and there is no reason to play the game again after you finished like most RPGs including Final Fantasy. After this game came out almost every RPG out there had some air pirate in it, it was hilarious sega once again did something innovative in a genre with those airship battles, I loved those battles and you had to pay attention if you wanted to win, they were not easy.
I do not know if the gamecube version was different enough to make the experience different but I played it on the dreamcast, I would give this game a 10 because they weren't any flaws the game was an excellent one time play through, deserves to be in the top 10 greatest RPGs of all time and will never be forgotten.
