Sarge wrote:The reason I think it holds out over something like Skies of Arcadia is that I don't know that Skies has aged quite as well. I saw someone mention that the elemental system was pretty annoying, and then you get area-attack skills. That's pretty much my take as well. Battles are pretty drawn out until you get Aika's clear-out moves.
PSIII's chronology is cool stuff, I just wonder if it is enough to warrant inclusion. I think Dragon Quest V is the better game, but I'm not sure I'd include it, either.
When I originally played SoA, I thought the element system was pretty cool. What I didn't think was cool, was when the game virtually abandoned it a quarter of the way in once Aika starts getting crazy AoE spells. Then every non-boss battle just becomes AoE spam. I would've much preferred, personally, a heavier focus on the elemental fighting (maybe even time units required to change your element) and less of an element on AoE spells. Granted, battles would probably take much longer, so there'd need to be far less of them.
Also, throwing in my 2 cents that I love Dragon Quest V. I haven't played PSIII, but I was genuinely engaged in DQV's narrative the whole way through. Something I really can't say about DQVI, which is fairly pretty mediocre in retrospect :/
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