You also have the Green Moon Ixa’taka/Aztec people, who live in massive jungles and fly around in canoes. You have the British Empire/Valua under the yellow moon of electricity, giving them a major industrial revolutionary feeling, powered armor, and World War 1 dreadnoughts as their ships of choice, the Nasr/Arabian people under the red moon, with their tents on wings they love to fly around the massive deserts they call home, and ruled by a sultan. The 6 moons are color coordinated for convenience and under their influence several cultures have developed. They also don’t move for some reason, but its show, don’t tell day at the publisher, so that remains a mystery. What is important however, is that each of those moons is powerfully magical, and each is imbued with a specific element or elements. There are 6 of them in all, though a true fan may go on about a 7 th, that one isn’t really important to the story. Most of the world is unexplored, steam power is unheard of, and everyone worships the moons. Did I mention this game was made in Japan? The long and short of it is, the game is set in a roughly Age of Exploration setting with a little anachronism stew thrown in for a good mix. Well, in a nutshell, the game is about exploration, collection, finding the true meaning of friendship, and killing god. Until Sega admitted they were afraid of ruining the game, so couldn’t trust themselves to make another.Īfter that exciting opening, you may be wondering what this game is about. And this sets the stage for one of the Dreamcast’s best performing titles ever, as well as a cult classic Sega game that fans have been demanding a sequel or at least a re-release for as long as the game has been out.
After you rescue the unconscious girl in weird clothing from the now stricken vessel, you take her back to your much cooler wooden flying pirate ship, where she wakes up, and Vyse promptly gets chewed out by the captain, also known as ‘Dad’. This culminates in you arm wrestling the captains giant pet armored rhino before he runs with his tail between his legs, but not before he gloats. You begin by shoving your nose exactly where it doesn’t belong as your merry band of noble robbers descend on a Valuan navy ship, which are the bad guy if it’s not made abundantly clear, what with the faceless goons, incredibly evil stereotypes, shooting down a girl, and in general being a bunch of mean people with chronic backstabbing problems in their leaders. He is joined on his epic quest to be a pain in the neck by his childhood friend Aika, a redhead with an imagination straight from a dime store Tarzan novel, and handlebars for hair. You are placed in the shoes of plucky sky pirate Vyse, a relentlessly chipper, optimistic, and much smarter then he looks young man with a penchant for daring do, rescuing the damsel, stealing as much gold as he can from the ‘man’ and generally being a pain to anyone in any position of authority that feels like abusing the peasants. Enter Skies of Arcadia for the Dreamcast. This is a time when Sega still makes hardware, 3d animation creates polygon monsters, and the mark of a good game was how many discs it had.
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With that out of the way, Hark, dear reader, and put down your smart phone, unless you are reading this on a smart phone, and go back to a time when texts came by pager, your internet screamed at you, and the TV guide channel was a book you got in the mail. I’m just waiting for a sequel now, and I’m hoping Sega does not pull a Sonic ’06 on me.
While I can say there are plenty of things they could have done more with, that does not erase the fact that they did so much else right.
It was my favorite video game growing up, and still remains my favorite video game to this day. Disclaimer before I start get things started.
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