3rd January 2003, 8:27 AM
Thanks guys for your recommendations on Skies of Arcadia Legends. It'll be a good game to eat up time in between Jan. 28 and March 24.
A Black Falcon- I agree with you on the Lost Kingdoms thing. For some reason, it wasn't quite as annoying because the battles weren't repetative. The whole card system ensured that each battle had to be fought differently. It was indeed a flaw that there were barriers to break, but you had to run around them a while to initiate a random battle so that you could use a monster to break them. The game would have been much more fluid had each level been one big "battle," where monsters can be activated at any time, and the enemies are always on the field. I think From is fixing thes problems for RUNE 2. I've heard that the enemies are always on the field and that you can activate monsters whenever you want. In addition, levels are replayable, so if you missed that awesome card in the random pick-a-card game, you can go back and try again to get a better grade. Because it's scheduled for Q1 2003, I'll probably rent it during the time in between Skies and Zelda.
A Black Falcon- I agree with you on the Lost Kingdoms thing. For some reason, it wasn't quite as annoying because the battles weren't repetative. The whole card system ensured that each battle had to be fought differently. It was indeed a flaw that there were barriers to break, but you had to run around them a while to initiate a random battle so that you could use a monster to break them. The game would have been much more fluid had each level been one big "battle," where monsters can be activated at any time, and the enemies are always on the field. I think From is fixing thes problems for RUNE 2. I've heard that the enemies are always on the field and that you can activate monsters whenever you want. In addition, levels are replayable, so if you missed that awesome card in the random pick-a-card game, you can go back and try again to get a better grade. Because it's scheduled for Q1 2003, I'll probably rent it during the time in between Skies and Zelda.