Comments on: And then there’s Maude!

By: slystrife

slystrife — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:15:33 +0000

Heh, I thought the original Wild Arms’s translation was pretty bad too. A lot of the lines in that game seemed so awkward and out of place, not to mention a lot of the character names were mangled. Advanced 3rd is my favorite to by the way. :)

Anyways, let’s not turn this Persona blog into a Wild Arms talk page, although I do LOVE Wild Arms. ^_^

By: Square711

Square711 — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:58:17 +0000

“though it suffers from a TERRIBLE translation.”

Indeed. Though what really annoyed me was the awful dialogue font used in the NA version. I even considered learning romhacking just to change that goddamn font. (of course, I gave up before I even started. :P)

By: Xienith

Xienith — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:27:23 +0000

I’m a big WA fan, though WA4 left a REALLY bad taste in my mouth. Not only was the game so bad, but the ending left a bad taste in my mouth. I’m all for bittersweet or depressing endings, but WA5 was just stupid.

This is all my opinion, if you enjoyed it, then that’s cool.

WA5 may get better, I’m still only a bit into it.

2 is my fav, though it suffers from a TERRIBLE translation.

By: Square711

Square711 — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:24:13 +0000

I loved Wild ARMs 5. Speaking as a long-time fan of the series, I really think it was all I could ask from Media Vision after the crapola that was WA4. A great way of apologizing for a miserable failure that made most fans lose faith in the series, and one of the best RPGs on the PS2.

3 is still my favorite, though. :3

By: slystrife

slystrife — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:33:12 +0000

I like Wild Arms V, only for the battles though (Hex system owns). The story made me blow chunks just like 4’s did, I mean seriously, one game has the typical “children are the future and adults are icky” storyline and the other just has REALLY underdeveloped characters. Still both amazingly fun games to play though, when I first got Wild Arms 4 I beat it within 3 days (although the game was abnormally short to begin with).

But yeah, have fun with Nocturne when you get around to it, my friend is still working on the game and he’s had it for a year. ^_^

By: Xienith

Xienith — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:08:10 +0000

oh, sorry for all the questions

But is the music any good for the leftover games?

I have to say DDS1+2 had SOME decent music, but for the most part, fell short IMO

Whereas P3 started to shine come that final month (as I stated before, the last month is kickass, if only the whole game was as well done)

Bought Nocturne today on ebay though, so I’ll be playing that shortly after WA5 (not the best game, but Im a completionist…I should have stopped after 3, lol)

By: Chris8282

Chris8282 — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:31:06 +0000

I see you’ve gone back to typing like you used to :D

But, he’s about right with Nocturne, and even low level’s dont help that much, you STILL need to level-up quite a bit.

By: Liraman

Liraman — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:02:44 +0000

grinding doesn’t make much of a difference in Nocturne , you need strategy and a correct selection of skillz

strategy also applies to the Persona games , but not that much

Nocturne is not as forgiving if you make a mistake

By: Xienith

Xienith — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:52:33 +0000

I like difficult games…though, I prefer when it’s the type of “difficult” that just needs level grinding to help.

By: Chris8282

Chris8282 — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:21:03 +0000

Good luck with that extremely hard game :D