26th March 2004, 11:15 AM
... funny, I loved Skies... it's one of the Cube games I did beat. Yeah, I didn't finish Wind Waker, Metroid Prime, or Mario Sunshine, but I've beaten Skies of Arcadia... and ... hmm... XG3, CvS2, BGDA, Eternal Darkness... a few others maybe... depending what you call 'beat'...
I know that in the past I complained a lot about random battles... of course at the time I didn't actually have any random-battle RPGs. I've played them more now. They still annoy me. Quite a lot at times. Sailing around got to be a pain... it's why I didn't get that many discoveries -- just too annoying. What really helped was when you got access to the upper sky. No battles! Sail around the world and no battles until you go down to your destination... that helped a LOT. Made it much more tolerable. :) Oh, and I found the battles in Skies fun. Dunno why, but I just liked them. Probably partly because it's a little more strategic than standard battles in the genre... I wish you could CONTROL where your characters go, but I like how the guys are not just in lines. :) And move. ... and of course the nice graphics...
The Cube one may have a few less battles but it's not hugely different, I think. ... but I didn't mind the DC version either, given how I played that like 8 hours in 2 or 3 days and later bought my own copy for GC because of how much I'd liked it... :)
I know that in the past I complained a lot about random battles... of course at the time I didn't actually have any random-battle RPGs. I've played them more now. They still annoy me. Quite a lot at times. Sailing around got to be a pain... it's why I didn't get that many discoveries -- just too annoying. What really helped was when you got access to the upper sky. No battles! Sail around the world and no battles until you go down to your destination... that helped a LOT. Made it much more tolerable. :) Oh, and I found the battles in Skies fun. Dunno why, but I just liked them. Probably partly because it's a little more strategic than standard battles in the genre... I wish you could CONTROL where your characters go, but I like how the guys are not just in lines. :) And move. ... and of course the nice graphics...
The Cube one may have a few less battles but it's not hugely different, I think. ... but I didn't mind the DC version either, given how I played that like 8 hours in 2 or 3 days and later bought my own copy for GC because of how much I'd liked it... :)
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