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Actress Anzu (40) updated her YouTube channel by the 9th, and prompted by her commentary playthrough of “Onimusha: Way of the Sword,” she looked back on her history with video games. Anzu named the Arc the Lad series as “the best RPG, in my opinion,” revealing that she still listens to the soundtrack to this day. On 5ch, women of the same generation voiced agreement with comments like “quite a few women in their 40s played Arc the Lad, so it’s a good conversation topic,” while others pointed out that only the series’ second installment is highly regarded, criticizing the first game for lacking content and the series for losing steam from the third game onward, with some also citing the length of battles as a drawback.
Mon, 11/9, 4:25 PM
Actress Anzu (40) updated her YouTube channel by the 9th, talking about what got her hooked on gaming, among other things.
Anzu posted commentary footage of herself playing “Onimusha: Way of the Sword” on YouTube. Viewers reacted with surprise, saying things like “Didn’t expect her to play games,” which she says is what led her to decide to look back on her gaming history.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
It was actually pretty popular with women, wasn't it.
I remember it taking about 3 hours to beat the final boss.
I've heard it's good up through 2 though.
It started with arcades, then home consoles came along, then Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy showed up…
Oho, don't forget about PC games!
Xanadu was a massive hit, but on the Famicom it only showed up as a knockoff called Faxanadu, so little kids couldn't get their hands on the real thing.
Oho, don't forget about PC games!
Xanadu was a massive hit, but on the Famicom it only showed up as a knockoff called Faxanadu — the one that made Falcom furious and later became the reason Hudson got slapped with a huge licensing fee for porting Ys. Little kids couldn't touch the real Xanadu anyway, both because of the hardware it needed and its difficulty.
Wait, was the music seriously composed by Samuragochi? lol (Mamoru Samuragochi, the composer famous for the ghostwriting scandal)
I never played 1, but I got hooked on 2 — never finishing it is my biggest regret.
I've got zero motivation to go back now lol
It wraps up in about 10 hours.
Apparently 2 is a massive epic though.
Same here…
If I hadn't carried over my save data from 1, I'd have definitely gotten stuck on the final boss.
Real quintessential-Sony kind of team behind them.
I listen to Wild Arms on Apple Music. That whistling BGM takes me right back. I remember it because they used to run ads for it at Digicube.
Both the characters' action animations and the enemies' movement animations take forever.
If you use an area attack, you end up stuck watching every single enemy's long death animation play out one by one.
Never actually played it though.
I love Arc the Lad 2's music.
3 fell completely flat too, and the whole series felt like it died out and got buried.
Basically only 2 gets treated as a true classic.
The others are iffy even as "solid games."
The final boss isn't exactly strong, but it's so tanky the fight turns into an hour-long slugfest.
That was the most pointless battle in the whole game.
Takes several hours to actually take it down.
If you buff Sania's magic power and use Divide, you can actually pull off four-digit damage.
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
The Arc the Lad series is a tactical RPG that debuted on the PlayStation in 1995, distinguished by strategic battles fought on a grid-based map. In the thread, most comments praised the completeness of “2,” described as an epic that runs well over 100 hours, while there was broad agreement that the first game lacked content and that the series lost momentum from the third installment onward, partly due to changes in the development team. The thread’s point of contention was how far to stretch the label “good game” — some cited the length of battle animations as a flaw, while others still called it a classic despite that. It’s worth noting that what Anzu actually revealed was simply a favorite from her gaming memories, not a critical assessment of the games themselves.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geisupo Sokuhou+) thread “Game-loving Anzu: “The best RPG, in my opinion” — the title she got absorbed in: “I really love the Arc the Lad series”; still an avid listener of the soundtrack today.”
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