Unskippable: Arc Rise Fantasia

[SaunaKalja]

Oh god, I wouldn't make it past the intro in that game without stabbing myself in the eyes, ears and brain. These JRPG really seem unimaginative. "Like there's a young dude, who is the koolest fighter ever. And then there's... dragons. And airships. And then a little girl."

 

[Kristoffer Sivertsen]

Wow, that was an incredibly shitty cinematic!

 

[WaderiAAA]

Oh, man, a JRPG cut-scene where neither of the characters understands anything.

Great episode though.

 

[Evilsanta]

Let us give a silent minute for the wii mote that bravele gvae its life so that we could watch this...


Great as always!

 

[Firia]

*Super sigh at frequently over used intro jrpg tropes.*

This introduction, I swear, is the same intro to almost every jprg Unskippable has covered. Almost. Spikey haired kid (how much you wanna bet, in the manual, his age is like, 15, or 16), big sword, unarmored, followed by cute subservient girl/future love interest. Lots of "huh," and general confusion spouted by the boy. Oh, and she's probably all of 14, but the manual will call her 16.

At least, these tropes were put into fast forward. I felt as in everything interpersonal was highly rushed. Which, if the cutscene was long enough to deactivate a wii-mote, then that's probably, ultimately, a good thing. But for quality sake, the devs likely have zero experience developing an attachment with the characters. Their one opportunity to win me over with a good first impression, and they botched the job. No doubt for more face time with Dragons, and physics defying falling-landings.
[sub]Really, his kick off the dragon would have to equal terminal velocity (he was falling long enough and high enough to reach it) to counter the fall. [/sub]

 

[Firia]

Oh, man, a JRPG cut-scene where neither of the characters understands anything.

Great episode though.

Allow me to adjust your comment to something a smidge more accurate;

Oh, man, yet another JRPG cut-scene where neither of the characters understands anything.

Tropes. JRPG's over use the piss out of them.

 

[Firia]

This is a fairly decent game, so long as you have the Japanese Audio, because the English only gets worse.

I'll take your word on that and look for a slightly more interesting JRPG. I'll go fire up the SNES...

The SNES... oh the Golden Era of JRPGs. The genre was good, once upon a time. Makes me want to fire mine up, and plug in Chrono Trigger, or FF6.

 

[Tharwen]

The acting! It burns us!

 

[YodaUnleashed]

That is definitely one of the funniest Unskippables yet, the JRPG's are just ripe for the butchering, there's just so much bad material to highlight.

 

[hawk533]

That was one of the funniest Unskippables I've seen in a while. "Hey, hey, hey. Whoa Whoa" sounds like a good song, who's it by? JRPGs are some of the best things to make fun of. Of course the guy without armor is the strongest and the main character. Full body armor is the new red shirt.

 

[dalek sec]

By the gods that voice acting was horrible. I was ready to look past some of the other cliche's but god that voice acting was the worst. The whole confused girl thing was just strang it's no wonder your Wii remote took the easy way out from that game.

 

[Solusumbra]

jrpg games are really going downhill. seems like they used to be full of offbeat, yet charming stories, or masterpieces of fantasy.

now, any japanese game developer can have their half baked bullshit idea made into a game for all of us to suffer through.

 

[proghead]

"This is gonna be a loooooooooong day...." cracked me up

Good episode.

 

[SelectivelyEvil13]

The most unlikely of heroes save the day in JRPGs, meaning the scrawny guy in slacks is going to excel at dragon fighting compared to a legion of highly trained, well-equipped soldiers. Yup!

Knights with swords fighting on airships with canons? I never understand the technology in these games.

Well, you see, it's very complicated because you need the airships for travel and to fight other airships (with the cannons). But you need the knights to fight the dragons that fly around and try to land on the airships' exposed decks to eat the the crew hanging on the railing so they don't fly off because it's an airship going really fast in the air...

Okay, this #%*@ is crazy.

 

[Heroic One]

I would play Blade Cross Diary.

 

[Mammon]

When are we getting another Let's Play guys? What you did before was awesome.

Great episode once again.

This. Also: haha, lol, roflmao and all that jazz

 

[hypermage]

See, this is why I've not really touched any JRPGs in yonks. And tangentially, when precisely did the RPG zeitgeist cross the Pacific? Still, a good bit of MSTing from the boys. Nice one liners.

 

[omicron1]

Anyone get "Gandalf VS Balrog" vibes from the falling dragon/boy scenes?

 

[ProfessorLayton]

This is the funniest Unskippable in a while. Recently, I'm afraid to say, they've been pretty weak but this one actually made me laugh a couple times. Keep up the good work, guys.

 

[Pills_Here]

While this was still pretty damn funny, I'm getting a bit tired of the JRPG's. I know they're easy and all but really, western games have some terrible cutscene's too!