Operation Backlog: Arc the Lad and Arc the Lad 2

[makoknight]

Hoo boy. I started this plan like a month or two ago, and I'm only three games down? Feel like I should be further than this.

Anyway, this time i just finished Arc the Lad 2. Normally I wouldn't do two games at nice but it's kind of necessary. The Arc the Lad games were released in a collection of three in English, another of Working Designs crazy

Comments

[verbanonfacta]

Arc the Lad was decent, if straightforward (and a bit tedious).

Arc the Lad 2 was amazing. Gets you involved with characters, gets them all some decent screen time. Highly entertaining. Also is the only game I know of where you play a ninja who uses SMGs.

[makoknight]

The characters in Arc 2 were really well done, I just wish there'd been a few more splits earlier on, to make the later ones more balanced. Admittedly, I was using Akura Choko by the end game, and even normal Choko is a tiny death god.

I think my end party was Elc, Choko, Gruga, Sania and Shante, subbing out Sania for Diekbeck in the second half of the final battle.

I'm now getting stuck into Arc the Lad 3, which I have to admit is pretty fun, if a bit cameopalooza.

(Also I am pretty sure that Shu is lurking around now, but it was hard to tell with the redesign, but then again, Ninja with a Shotgun.)

[makoknight]

Also, I agree on the tediousness. Especially since I did the 1000 battles in the arena thing.

On the upside, I had Arc, Tosh, Kukuru and Iga at 60 by the end of it.