Enchanted Arms

by UBI Soft

Product Features

• Easy to navigate interface, the ability to move characters in-battle and distance-dependent attacks create fast paced action
• Deep storyline with multiple objectives and branching missions -- over 50 hours of gameplay
• Over 100 fully animated and highly detailed 3D characters with distinct faces and unique personalities
• Stunning cinematic-quality HD graphics -- includes over one hour of anime style cinematics
• Online vs. battle - Go head-to-head in 1 versus 1 battle and challenge other gamers on Xbox Live

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000FUG5WC
• Item Weight: 1 pounds
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: August 29, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,991 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #60 in Video Games > Xbox 360 > Role-Playing
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: Xbox 360 | Edition: Standard

From the Manufacturer

Embark on an epic RPG adventure and escape to a fantasy world filled with beautiful cinematic-quality graphics, unique characters, and bizarre creatures. Take the role of Atsuma, Enchanter in-training, and transform from a naive student to the most powerful savior in a war 1,000 years in the making.

Immerse yourself in a deep storyline as you face increasingly difficult challenges and learn to master Atsuma’s special fighting and magical abilities.

Features:

• Fast-action gameplay: easy-to-navigate interface, the ability to move characters in-battle, and distance-dependent attacks create fast-paced action.
• Over 50 hours of gameplay: deep storyline with multiple objectives and branching missions.
• Stunning cinematic-quality HD graphics: Over 100 fully animated and highly detailed 3-D characters with distinct faces and unique personalities. Includes over one hour of anime-style cinematics.
• Online versus battle: go head-to-head in one-versus-one battle and challenge other gamers on Xbox Live.

Product Description

In Enchanted Arms, you'll embark on an epic RPG adventure and escape to a fantasy world filled with beautiful cinematic quality graphics, unique characters and bizarre creatures. Take the role of Atsuma, Enchanter in-training and transform from a naïve student to the most powerful savior in a war 1,000 years in the making. Immerse yourself in a deep storyline as you face increasingly difficult challenges and learn to master Atsuma's special fighting and magical abilities.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars First XBox 360 Traditional RPG, December 22, 2006

By 

J. Gable - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Enchanted Arms (Video Game)

First off, let me say that I'm a huge role playing game fan. I have been for as long as I can remember. One of my main gripes with Microsoft's XBox was that there was a huge lack of good RPGs. It seems with the release of Oblivion, which was an action RPG, and the release of this game, which is a turn based RPG, they are off to a good start with the 360.

The battles in this game are fun and strategic. Your characters are placed on grid-like terrain, and it's your job to move them around and position them to be able to attack the enemy. The enemy is also on the same grid, opposite of you. The positions of which your characters are placed at the start of each battle are random, so it does require strategy on your part.

Another huge part of this game is golemn collecting. Think of it as a Pokemon-like collection experience. Many of these golemns have unique powers that will be of great help to you on your journey. Golemns that you can collect are different from normal enemies in that they actually show up visibly on your map, as opposed to the random battles you will enter into to fight normal monsters.

The story is the best part of the game. It starts out slow for the first few hours, and then after a certain event that happens to you in the game, it's full steam ahead.

The main character, Atsuma, is your average meatheaded student who doesn't quite pay attention in class. Throughout the game, his learning curve doesn't seem to improve too much. He's always the last character to figure out what is exactly happening around him. His arm is what ties this story together, as it is the source of a mysterious power. Throughout the game, more backstory about his arm will be revealed to you. At first you will be joined by two characters, Toya and Makoto. Toya is more like a mentor to Atsuma and takes him under his wing at the beginning of the game. Makoto is the game's over-the-top stereotypical gay guy. He's madly in love with Toya and claims himself to be the president of Toya's fan club. Makoto is the source of much of the game's great comic relief for the first few hours of gameplay.

Later in the game, you'll be joined by Karin, Raigar, and Yuki. Karin is a headstrong woman who is part of a group called the "resistance movement". Raigar is Karin's personal bodyguard, who reveals himself to be freakishly strong. When you first meet him, he doesn't talk much, but he'll open up as the game progresses. Yuki is a selfish little girl who's main goal in life is to become the most famous golemn hunter that ever lived. She's also the source of alot of the game's funny dialog as the game goes on, because she has something to say about everything.

Speaking of the dialog, it's suprisingly fresh and natural. It never tries too hard to be funny, and in return you'll find yourself laughing aloud many times throughout the game.

I would love to reveal more of the story to you, but since it's the greatest part of the game, you'll have to get it and see it for yourself. Overall, Enchanted Arms is an enjoyable experience that has a good few fun sidequests to enjoy along with it's main storyline, which should keep you busy for many hours. I'd personally suggest this game to anyone who likes turn based-style battles or anyone who enjoys a fulfilling RPG story.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What a game!, November 22, 2006

By 

Scott "Klaatu Barada Nikto" (Portland, OR, USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Enchanted Arms (Video Game)

I really enjoyed this game. It brought me back to the style of play I first experienced with the Final Fantasy series. Something about the mini battles and the turn based fighting is a welcome change to all the real-time combat every other game in the world incorporates.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It Gets Better as it Goes, November 6, 2006

By 

J. Hornbuckle - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)   

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Enchanted Arms (Video Game)

As other reviewers have said, this is basically a complete Final Fantasy rip-off, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, and its buggy in that the game tends to crash at odd times, which is a bad thing

Other bad things include the complete linearity of the early levels, where you can't turn left or right at all, you basically just follow a narrow path to each encounter, and also the very very slow save/load menu, which gets slower the more saves you have. I would reccomend just saving in maybe 2 slots because of that, and over writing one or the other whenever you save (which should be often)

Now on to the good: the game gets ALOT better if you stick with it. There's a little indicator that shows how far along you are, and I almost gave up on it in the 15-20% range because of the many problems, but for whatever reason i stuck with it and it got much much better 40% or so

The levels opened up and you could back track and explore sections you might have skipped earlier. You got more choice about what order to do things in too. And finally the story line kicked in, and by the 50% mark i was pretty much just playing it to see what the characters would say and do next in the cut scenes, which is a tribute to the story if not the game play

Another really over looked element is the humor in the voice acting. Its cheesy and silly but I really did laugh out loud in several places. So give it a chance and you might be surprised at how much better the middle is than the beginning

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