Posted on: November 16, 2015
ErzPaladin
Games: 80 Reviews: 7
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I'm owner of the PS2-Version, so I score it after my experience with the original Version of the game. However unless the developers added +200% Bonus-Content to the game, then it's a fitting scoring. YS: the Ark of Naphistim has some points which speak for, but also which speak against it. YS6 is declared as RPG, but the truth is it fits more into the Action-Adventure section like Zelda or Alundra - with the difference that it lags the puzzling-depth of that games (for example games like Lufia or the Wild Arms-Series have a way way deeper puzzle-depth and are way more genre-connected than YS6 actually is). Also it is a very linear game, which isn't really bad, cause it sticks to the story-telling of the game. The main flaw of the game is the length: An average person completes it within 2 days on the 1st try. And you can guess that includes the map size as well: If you ignore the tribes village, then you can say that there exists only one small city within the game. The size of the Map sticks to that of the city: actually it should be impossible to miss a single area in that game. The areas are connected to each other like a thread. There aren't many forks on your way through the map. That sounds bad, but still it's a very nice game. In terms of size it's just not comparable to other RPGs from that era. I personally like the small city of that game a lot: the design, the npcs within it. In my opinion it's very sad, that the developers kept the game so small in size. Graphically from the sweet, non-overwhelming design (not like FF& Co). from the story-telling it has a lot of potential. It's a very straight game either. Which gives it a fairly good replaying-value. It just simply lags size and side quest content. With side quest content I mean some quest lines which tell you more about the story, area and the world in which it is set in (and not quests like "kill 10 of this, get 20 of that item or kill this or that field boss like in Xenoblade Chronicles).
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