Board 8 > Rate this RPG (Day 030) - Wild ARMs

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RULES
- Rating of the RPG should be based on a scale from 1-10
- Users who haven't played the game or played it enough to give it a judgement shouldn't rate the game
- I won't rate the game if I haven't played the game or even finished it. Just so you know all my votes for the game are genuine and fair
- Troll voters please stay away
- Voting ends by the end of the day except on weekends because I won't be accessing gamefaqs.com at all

Previous Results
(Day 001) - Dragon Quest - 6.0 (15 users)
(Day 002) - Suikoden II - 9.7 (8 users)
(Day 003) - Xenogears - 9.1 (8 users)
(Day 004) - Chrono Cross - 7.5 (22 users)
(Day 005) - Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals - 7.8 (8 users)
(Day 006) - Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars - 9.2 (10 users)
(Day 007) - Breath of Fire III - 7.9 (7 users)
(Day 008) - Final Fantasy VII - 8.8 (27 users)
(Day 009) - Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht - 7.6 (5 users)
(Day 010) - Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Bose - 8.5 (5 users)
(Day 011) - Xenosaga Episode III: Also Sprach Zarathustra - 9.0 (8 users)
(Day 012) - Phantasy Star - 5.8 (7 users)
(Day 013) - Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - 8.5 (19 users)
(Day 014) - The Legend of Dragoon - 6.9 (12 users)
(Day 015) - Mother - 5.1 (6 users)
(Day 016) - Dragon Quest II - 5.2 (8 users)
(Day 017) - Final Fantasy VIII - 8.7 (39 users)
(Day 018) - Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 - 9.2 (15 users)
(Day 019) - Chrono Trigger - 9.0 (31 users)
(Day 020) - Paper Mario - 9.4 (5 users)
(Day 021) - Star Ocean - 7.4 (11 users)
(Day 022) - Valkyrie Profile - 7.4 (5 users)
(Day 023) - Shining Force - 8.6 (8 users)
(Day 024) - EarthBound - 8.2 (23 users)
(Day 025) - Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete - 8.8 (18 users)
(Day 026) - Quest 64 - 2.8 (3 users)
(Day 027) - Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy - 7.1 (6 users)
(Day 028) - Final Fantasy X - 9.3 (38 users)
(Day 029) - Seiken Densetsu (Final Fantasy Adventure) - 5.2 (8 users)

My Score
* Haven't played any of the Wild ARMs game. I own 5 of them (1-5)... don't know if there's a 6th. Anyways if there are some good scores over here, I might just play them in the future.

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Rock n' Roll and Glam Metal... It never died

Wild Arms is awesome! Well, if it has a "3" or "4" or "XF" after the title. And 2/5 are both decent as well. Even Alter Code F, the remake of the first one which fixes most of its flaws (certainly not all) is pretty solid.

Can't stand WA1 though. Extremely generic, ugly, has a silent main, and does none of the interesting battle design things the rest of the series became known for. Also some of those puzzles are just atrocious (I'm looking at you, de le Metallica).

2/10.

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5.0

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8.3

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Wow NeoElfBoy... you sure made me not wanna play WA1 and skip directly to 2.

I heard from some people that WA2 is the best in the series along with 5.

*Bump

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Rock n' Roll and Glam Metal... It never died

Well, look at that, I can't have a more complete opposite opinion to NeoElfBoy! The new WAs, while look prettier, lost a lot of its charm and atmosphere I love about old WAs, because now they just have generic anime graphic! Battle design is one of the least "well known" things amongst the many standout features from Wild ARMs series imho such as the music, the puzzles aspect with tools, the map searching, the western atmosphere and even the funny way they handle running! In fact I'm of the opinion that its recent adventurous battle design is one of the things that killed the series (although the overall downtrend in JRPG is probably the main reason we don't have WA6 yet)

If you can't stand "genericness" and "ugliness" (remember this was a pre-FF7 3D-rendered RPG, so pardon the graphics), then you may consider skipping it, but you'll miss out on a great plot and great characters (plus awesome music!)

For me, the original Wild ARMs can be considered as one of 'em classics. And yes, this is not strictly nostalgia speaking. I played WA2/3 before WA, and I may put WA2 above WA every other days depending on how I feel. The game is just minimalist in a great way!

9/10

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