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Each member of your party can move only a designated number of spaces on their side of the battlefield and each task that a character is ordered to perform only effects a specific area on the opposing side. Each of your party members can be moved around on the battle grid and assigned a task, whether that’s to attack, chant out a magic spell, or use one of the items within your available inventory. Enchanted Arms plays out with a turn-based combat system, meaning that you input the commands you wish your group to carry out, then simply sit back and watch as the battles unfold. Throughout the course of the game you can control a party of up to 4 characters, with many more, including Golems, waiting on the sidelines should you desire to change up your party. So for those who have never delved into the world of a Japanese, turned based RPG, here’s what you can expect from Enchanted Arms. Without intending to do so, the powers held within his enchanted arm leads to the resurrection of this thousand year old deity, who once again threatens to destroy all of humanity.Īs you might have guessed, our rebellious youth Atsuma is not only the inadvertent cause of the catastrophes that take place from here on out, but as the player, you assume control of him in his quest to set things right.Īlong the way many surprises and plot twists await the player, but in all honesty, because of the almost formulaic use of typical Japanese storytelling, many of the games bigger moments are highly predictable and you can see many of them coming from a mile away. Using technology and magic (also known as: enchanting) humans rebuild their world and the Golem Wars faded from memory and into the history books.Īs you might expect, it’s our hero Atsuma’s disrespect for authority that inevitably leads to the discovery of a Devil Golem, the most powerful of all golems. The civilization of that time collapsed and as the war came to a close, the Golems shut down and ceased to function. Naturally, the Golems went haywire and started what was then known as a Golem Wars. In fact, the ditching of school with a couple of his fellow classmates pretty much leads to the main plotline of the entire game.Ī thousand years earlier, the people of Atsuma’s home world used machines, simply known as Golems to carry out all manner of servitude for their creators. The story primarily revolves around Atsuma a young man who hates school to the point of ditching it. In typical Japanese tradition, Enchanted Arms follows all the stereotypical plotlines of virtually every Japanese title to come before it.

If you’ve managed to finished it and need another fix of RPG goodness, you could do a lot worse than to go with Enchanted Arms, well actually, you can’t do worse since there are no other choices. Also, if you’re one of those who must have every achievement, you could easily spend 120 hours in your quest to get them all, well worth the money, and certainly destined to be a tough act to follow. It’s simply outstanding and the scale of the game is gigantic. So right off the bat I’ll say it, if you crave an RPG, Oblivion sports my highest recommendation. Still, as it stands, nearly a year since the systems launch, we have a total of 2 RPG’s available, the most recent being the Japanese port, Enchanted Arms or as it was known in the land of the rising sun. Still, all is not lot on the RPG horizon with a few highly anticipated titles in the works, including the much-hyped Mass Effect and a few other like Blue Dragon.

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Once again, with the Xbox 360, the Elder Scrolls series is first out of the gates with their epic and simply incredible offering - Oblivion certainly a game worth buying a console for. I suppose the lack of support from heavy hitting developers like Square/Enix had a lot to do with that, but those days may be changing. Sure, for the most part the few we had were quality titles with the likes on Elder Scrolls: Morrowind, Jade Empire and the 2 Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic games, but in comparison to the Playstation 2, the pickins were pretty slim. The original system had such a small number of role-playing games that you could basically count them on your fingers. That style of gameplay has captivated and intrigued me from the very first time I ever remember playing one, the first being Dragon Warrior from back in the days on the original Nintendo Entertainment System.Īs most of you probably know, the Xbox has never been the best console to own if you’re an RPG fan. Why you might ask? Well that’s simple, I love role-playing games, especially some of the traditional Japanese stuff - you know, Final Fantasy and the lot.

Just ask our illustrious leader Mark, and you would know that I’ve been hounding him to let me review this game for weeks.

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