Wild ARMs 4 Journal, Day 1:
- The game begins with Jude jumping out of a huge tree. I mean, huge. By realistic standards, the game should have started, Jude bails out of that tree, then BAM, end credits roll. Luckily for gamers, this is a fantasy game, and falling what had to have been 50 feet didn’t phase our teen hero.
- Notes for later: Jude’s mom is hot.
- Oh, oh, it’s been established. Jude is the following things: 1) A badass 2) A renegade 3) A renegade badass.
Within the first hour of the game, he’s *Spoiler – 1* skipping school, not taking orders from women, and performing espionage. - MOVIE CLIP TIME! Not long after the game’s beginning, Jude happens upon some trouble. Here’s a 4-minute video of gameplay and some prologue. I’d rate this video on a Spoiler – 2, since it’s so early in the game and you can see it coming.
- The game starts in a town called “Ciel.” Is it now wonderfully ironic that for a brief period during my youth, I attended an elementary school called “C.L.?” Was I destined to write about this game. I vote yes.
- Jude’s mom and some fat guy spilled some heavy truth to me after coming back from the forest. It started with (*Spoiler – 3*) this warning from mom, and was later expounded upon by the fat dude. The shot of him is in the forum thread and I’m far to lazy to be grabbing the link.
- I like the manga-style storytelling going on here. Some of these screens could be pasted right into a manga and you wouldn’t think any different of them. This screen, which is soon followed by this one show a decent example of what I mean.
- MOVIE CLIP TIME! There are lots of tutorials in the game. Here, I’ll show you one of my own, with one of Jude’s first uses of the sliding technique. In this clip, I’m staying out of sight of an enemy by sliding along the ground. Then, just for kicks, I show what happens if that guard spots me.
- Those of you who watched the video could easily see what was going to happen sooner or later. The movie clip of my party rocking the first boss is linked in the forums. The clip shows the introduction of “Ley HEXes” and “Original” techniques.
- We’ll end this entry there. Hopefully I can keep up with updating here and furiously playing through the game at the same time. Please feel free to give me any feedback, cheers, jeers, or ask questions via email, forum, AIM (GoodCleanPunker), showing up at my house, or whatever.
CURRENT STATS
Death count: 0
Time: 1:41
Hot moms: 1
People in my party: 3
Jude level: 6