Skies of Arcadia

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Skies of Arcadia, released in Japan as Eternal Arcadia, is an RPG developed by Overworks and released for the SEGA Dreamcast and later re-released as an enhanced remake called Skies of Arcadia Legends for the Nintendo GameCube. The games story focuses on the young Blue rouge Vyse and his struggles against the Valuan Empire from taking over the world.

Contents 1 Game Play 1.1 Battle System 1.1.1 Character Combat 1.1.2 Ship Combat 1.2 Overworld 1.3 Discoveries 2 Story 3 Characters 3.1 Main player characters 3.1.1 Vyse 3.1.2 Aika 3.1.3 Fina 3.2 Secondary player characters 3.2.1 Drachma 3.2.2 Gilder 3.2.3 Enrique 4 Related Pages 5 Crunchy Roll Group 6 Referances

[edit] Game Play

[edit] Battle System

Combat comprises of two different settings: ship to ship combat and character to monster combat with the latter occurring more often. All battles follow a turn based system.

[edit] Character Combat

Character combat occurs between one to four player characters and one to eight monsters or NPCs (Non-Playable Character). Combat is comprised of seven main options; 'Run', 'Items' (Which can be used to change the characters' equipment as well), 'Guard', 'Attack', 'S.Move' (Super Move), 'Magic' and 'Focus'. An eighth option, 'Crew Special', becomes available later in the game by meeting certain criteria (Which replaces the Run command). After an action has been chosen for each character, the round will commence. As with all RPGs, using these in an effective combination can make victory almost certain.

[edit] Ship Combat

Ship battles are fought less often and the choices the player makes while fighting them directly determines whether they will be at a tactical advantage or disadvantage next turn. Each round in ship combat is divided into either three or four turns depending on how many characters are currently in the party and neither team has more than a single turn advantage over the opposition.

[edit] Overworld

Traveling is normally done by way of airship which is where random encounters with monsters can occur. These battles take place on the deck of the airship and can be avoided later on in the game once your ship is fitted with a Yafutoma engine, allowing travel into higher and lower altitudes that are "monster free zones".

[edit] Discoveries

The player can also find Discoveries hidden throughout the world while flying their airship. Information about discoveries can be sold at Sailor's Guilds located in cities throughout the game; the value of a discovery is determined by how well-hidden it is and how much time has elapsed since it was possible to find. When finding a new land, a discovery is recorded automatically, as these Discoveries are part of the storyline. Some discoveries are manditory for certain NPCs to join your crew.

[edit] Story

[edit] Characters

[edit] Main player characters

[edit] Vyse

Vyse is the viewpoint character of the game. Vyse (pronounced "vice" in English or "bai-zu" in Japanese) is somewhat short for his 17 years of age. He has brown hair and brown eyes, and a scar on his left cheek. He wears a blue jacket over a black sleeveless t-shirt, black leggings, brown knee-length leather boots and a sky-blue "eyepatch"-shaped lens over his right eye which he can use to magnify distant objects.

[edit] Aika

Aika is one of the three protagonists of the game. Aika (pronounced "ai-ka" in Japanese and virtually the same in English) is a brown-eyed redhead who wears her hair in two long, stiff braids. During the brief periods when she takes her hair down, it is soft and straight. Aika wears a pair of goggles which she are perched on top of her head, a brief yellow dress, dark shorts (which bear a passing resemblance to Japanese school bloomers) and a pair of leather boots similar to Vyse's. She also wears a large yellow leather glove on her left hand, which is her boomerang hand (implying she's left-handed).

[edit] Fina

Fina (pronounced "fai-na" in Japanese) is one of the three protagonists of the game. She is a beautiful 17-year-old girl with a curvy figure, pale skin, green eyes and blonde hair. She wears an ankle-length sleeveless white dress slit up each side to nearly halfway up the thigh for mobility, white tights and boots with gold cuffs, sleeves which stay at mid-arm despite no visible means of support, and a gold headband from which depends a gauzy cream veil that covers her collar-length hair. There is a triangular cutout in her dress at the top of her breasts.

[edit] Secondary player characters

[edit] Drachma

Captain Drachma is a major player character in the game, and is heavily based off of Captain Ahab. Captain Drachma is a grizzled old man with a full beard and mustache, a patch over his right eye and a fisherman's paunch. His right arm was torn off by the arcwhale Rhaknam, later revealed to be the Purple Gigas. He wears black pants and a green shirt, over which goes the strap that holds his mechanical arm onto his body. Drachma has had his mechanical arm for quite some time, and he can use it with a great deal of fluidity, as if it were his natural arm and not a prosthetic. Drachma's name is derived from the Drachma (Greek currency which was replaced by the Euro in 2001).

[edit] Gilder

Captain Gilder is a darkly handsome man of 32 years, who wears a red duster, like other gunslinger anime heroes (for instance, Vash the Stampede and Final Fantasy VII's Vincent Valentine). He wears a pair of slim-framed pince-nez which he doesn't actually appear to need for anything but looks. Gilder is a freewheeling, free-love type of pirate with a woman in every port. He lives to have fun, and flying about the skies, shooting up Valuans and liberating their treasure is a lot of fun.

[edit] Enrique

Enrique could be considered feminine in appearance, short in height and slightly-built. His blonde hair is neatly fringed in front and sleekly well-groomed in back. He has wide, bright green eyes, and wears dark violet clothing, and a breastplate. Enrique wields a rapier in combat, which he uses in his attacks and S-moves.

[edit] Related Pages

• Valuan Empire (Skies of Arcadia)
• List of Blue Rouges (Skies of Arcadia)
• List of Black Pirates (Skies of Arcadia)

[edit] Crunchy Roll Group

http://www.crunchyroll.com/group/Skies_of_Arcadia

more to come on this page later, feel free to add to it if you know what you are doing.

[edit] Referances

http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/dreamcast/data/197237.html
http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/gamecube/data/537506.html