Discussion VideoGame / WildArms2

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• If you've played Xenogears, many things about Wild Arms 2 will seem oddly familiar.
  • The navigation has extremely similar camera rotation and platform mechanics, but unlike in Xenogears you aren't able to jump up. The sprites on 3D background were in an extremely similar visual style as well.
  • Both games' worlds have extremely violent histories that at least once or twice involved the a planet-wide near-genocide. But the theme of Filgaia being a scorched world is common to the Wild Arms series in general.
  • The Sword Magess was a fairly ordinary girl who became a Hero of extraordinary means and elevated to legendary icon Sacrificial Lion, reminiscent of Sophia's tragic canonization in Xenogears.
  • Though a trend already started in the first Wild ARMs game, Filgaia is a scorched world, having seen the trauma of cataclysms in the past. Similarly, the world of Xenogears has been battered just as badly, with one continent shattered and another continent all but desertified — the latter being similar to Slayheim's utter desertification in Wild Arms 2. There seems to be at least mild cross-pollination of concepts.
  • Ashley holds two conflicting personalities within him, one of which is a veritable Eldritch Abomination, which is very reminiscent of Fei's cataclysmic Id in Xenogears. In both cases, the protagonist gains effective partial control over their dark size and summon it to battle when necessary. But neither have total control over it.
  • Valeria Chateau feels very much like the Yggdrasil in Xenogears, being simultaneously a base of operations, a small town of inhabitants, a fairly complex explorable structure, and later actually gains the ability to fly.
  • Marivel is the last of her kind after they were wiped out suddenly by Lord Blazer. In Xenogears, Dominia Yizkor believes herself to be the last of her exotic elf-like race, which was all but wiped out overnight by Id, who as mentioned above also has interesting parallels with Lord Blazer.
  • Just as Xenogears introduced a dizzying complexity of world background and plot turns that rarely seemed so numerous in a game of its time, the Wild Arms 2 story and game script seems endlessly detailed. But this trend was increasingly arising in most console RPGs of the day.

I noticed a couple of interesting references that were lost in translation. In the Japanese version, Tim's Submerge spell was called Deep Submerge, and the Good Luck Zone was the Zone of Absolute Fortune. Would these be Shout Outs, or something else?

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• Adorably Precocious Child- Tim.