Wild ARMs 4  XSEED's first game is freakin' awesome. Author: Sam
Bishop Published: January 10, 2006 page 1 page 2 page 3   next
It's hard to believe the Wild ARMs series has been around for as
long as the PlayStation brand. It shouldn't be all that
surprising considering the games have been made by Media.Vision,
one of Sony's internal development teams, but it's still an
impressive feat to have logged.  Long before Final Fantasy VII
turned the PSX into the must-have system for RPG nuts, but
thankfully right after the abortion that was Beyond the Beyond,
the first Wild ARMs at least brought a fresh angle to the
familiar Japanese RPG motif that was still admittedly new to
most gamers -- and certainly to PlayStation ones. Thanks to a
whistled theme song and some very heavy Wild West undertones,
the game was unlike any RPG that had crossed the pond.  Perhaps
that's why it's so interesting to see Wild ARMs 4 moving away
from the stuff that made it so original in the first place.
Media.Vision by no means ditched th