Wild Arms 5
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Product Summary
Brand: Xseed GamesRelease Date: 2007-08-28
Platform: PlayStation2
Model: 00106
Publisher: Xseed Games
Product features:
- Wild Arms 5 is the newest chapter in the popular role player series
- Features a brand-new cast of characters in an all-new storyline along with a return of the acclaimed HEX battle system from Wild Arms 4
- Huge, fully explorable 3-D world has tons of hidden items, quests and mini-games to discover
- Dual-pistol wielding allows the player to shoot various types of bullets to solve puzzles
- Features dozens of cameo appearances and other surprises for longtime fans of the series
Video Game Reviews of Wild Arms 5
Customer Review: Wild Arms 5: Platformer RPG Goodness
Summary: 3 Stars
Wild Arms 5 is one of the few platformer RPGs out there. Your character has the ability to jump from object to object, you push items into holes, use different types of bullets to hit switches, and so on. What does this mean? The normal dungeon crawl becomes a fun experience and not as repetitive as many RPGs (does make you wonder though why whoever built all these structures made them so hard to get through!).
The game is all around fun and has some interesting aspects which make even some of the more annoying areas a pleasure to go through. One of which is the ability to turn off random encounters in areas you've beaten a special boss creature in. This is nice because you don't always want to have to fight the same weak enemies when you're just running through.
The battle system itself is different than most normal JRPGs. That being that you're on a hexagon matrix where certain spots have bonuses to elemental affinity which causes you to be more strategic especially when the enemy has a certain affinity and can use it against you.
Unfortunately, for the all the fun aspects of the game there are certain annoyances too. One of which is the fact that the game prevents you from going to areas you shouldn't go by using switches you cannot use unless you have certain bullets to get in. However, at one point in the game you have all the bullets and can, by mistake, progress the story by discovering places on the map important to the main quest. This happened to me while playing which is always annoying.
The worst part of this game, however, is the story and dialog. The characters are not really believable as well; Rebecca is one of the most annoying female figures ever to make it into a video game, for example. Her whole character motivation seems to be the fact that Dean, the main character, met Avril and she's jealous Dean likes her so she follows him on his adventure. The story (or lack there of) isn't that grand as well and it seems to be just a good versus evil keep walking because that leads us closer plot.
The only good part of the story is the ending but even then it's such a small piece of the overall story (although epic in nature) that you wonder what you got out of playing.
So, it's a fun Platformer RPG but don't expect anything wonderful. Just expect a corny character-bleh filled plot with an interesting dungeon system that relies on platformer like tendencies.
Description of Wild Arms 5
In a small town called Capo Bronco on the outskirts of Filgaia two youths Dean Stark and Rebecca Streisand witness an unbelievable event -- the giant arm of a golem somehow falling from the sky. Their disbelief grows further when they discover that within the clenched fist of the golem's hand lies a girl with little recollection of her past other than her name --"Avril." This chanceAll Games
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