It works wonderfully with the well-written dialogue to build a game that is incredibly laid back and funky. The soundtrack is really stylish and made up for the most part by chilled jazz tunes.
Possibly the most attractive thing about the game though is the presentation. Indeed at times it seems the game has been padded with a few too many mysteries to increase its run time, but that said the eventual expositions make for some genuinely memorable moments. The first couple of hours feature regular cut scenes to a mob boss-style man talking on the phone and then saying something along the lines of “now to put my plan in motion” before fading to a dramatic black. This is interspersed by moments of levity and clever dialogue to prevent the game from becoming a dirge and so it’s the kind of story that most people will enjoy even if it gentles the impact on the players to the point where it’s not an especially memorable story either.įor all its pleasantness, the plot structure is a little retro and tries too hard to be mysterious at times. From the opening scene where a firing squad shoots down a young boy’s entire family in front of him there’s some intrigue wound up in following that boy’s adult life. It’s quite dark and adult in tone, which belies the cutsey anime characters. So it’s good news that the plot itself is interesting. That’s going to put some Fire Emblem faithful off perhaps, but it does mean that the focus is put more strongly on the storytelling and the assumption that everyone who plays is going to reach the ending.
While there is the occasional soft difficulty spike Arc The Lad 2 is a game to be experienced rather than to challenge. It’s also worth noting that this game is far, far easier than any of the Fire Emblem games.
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