random thoughts on a game we've started playing
arc rise fantasia, so far, seems like a pretty decent but not outstanding jrpg
- the story, while interesting, seems to have been *heavily* inspired by trails in the sky
-- this mostly applies to the very early game, now it's starting to become its own thing. the main character's middle name is still Bright though which is really on the nose
- the politics of it are so far kind of all over the place?
- the combat system feels generic at first but has some depth to it, if not as much as it seems they were going for
- the music is by Yasunori Mitsuda, so there's definitely some high points there
- there seem to be a lot of romantic undertones in the plot that probably didn't need to be there
- the voice acting is kind of bad? we've heard worse but this isn't the best
- one character's victory pose has some intensely uncomfortable eye contact
re: random thoughts on a game we've started playing
also, the game probably doesn't need to be nearly as hard as it is
-F