In its marketing materials, "Wild ARMs 4" promised a new battle system and several other 'advances' over the previous three games in the well-liked series, one of which was toning-down the Fantasy Western setting. I personally didn't think "Wild ARMs" needed any gameplay improvements over "Wild ARMs 3," and I thought the Fantasy Western setting was an excellent change-up from typical RPGs that are either strict High Fantasy or Space Opera. I was annoyed by these arbitrary changes and thus put "Wild ARMs 4" on my list of 'Great RPG Series Ruined by Too Much Innovation' and ignored it for many years. Recently, I saw a used copy for $12 and figured it was worth it to see if my predictions of doom were correct.
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"Wild ARMs 4" cheats a lot with its graphics. The back of ... |
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4/5 |
