#Arkms review ps3#

The game's plot is weak - you're out to save the world and discover the truth about your right arm, which has its own set of magical powers. Without those online features, the shortcomings that were forgiven on the 360 are all the more glaring on the PS3. There's leaderboards for the battles and for the title's casino games, but not here. Over on the 360, players can build their team and take the squad online to duke it out with other Enchanted Arms devotees.

#Arkms review ps3#

The bad news? There's no online element to Enchanted Arms on the PS3 at all. Players can shake the controller to make Atsuma dance and fill a special attack meter, called EX points shake it before unleashing a special attack to add up to 20% more to a move the controller can also be waved to implement Atsuma's grappling hook and it comes into play in more than a few mini-games such as a pizza-eating contest. The good news is that Sixaxis controls have been added to Enchanted Arms, and they're actually pretty fun to use. In fact, if you've been waiting for this game all these months, you probably just want to know about the differences between the two versions. None of this is news to you if you played or read about the 360 title. Watching a new move in motion and trying out different golems that look like stuffed animals or creatures from the Black Lagoon are some of the best parts of Enchanted Arms. It's pretty typical RPG fare, and that's not a bad thing. The grid warfare means that each character needs to be strategically placed to take advantage of his, her or its own set of ranged and close-combat attacks - you'll need your sasquatch golem within two squares of an enemy to allow the massive monster to beat the baddie down with its paws and you'll need to leave your werewolf golem three squares away from an enemy to allow the creature to unleash Air Force, a ranged attack.

Combat occurs on a pair of 4x3 grids (one inhabited by your enemies and one inhabited by your team). Each character levels up as the game progresses, learns new skills and can be swapped in and out of the four-person battle squad. People join your party, Atsuma keeps having weird dreams and basically the group keeps battling for its world. But when Atsuma and some friends cut classes, head to the Yokohama Founding Festival and all hell breaks loose, the group quickly deciphers that devil golems aren't a thing of the past. At this point, golems are back to being used for everyday tasks, and there's even debate if the whole 'devil golem thing' ever happened. That sets the stage for when you boot up the game and step into the present-day shoes of Atsuma, a lazy student at Enchant University. Some devil golems showed up and made the rest of the dolls turn on humanity in an 'I, Robot' style revolt. In the Enchanted Arms universe, there was this war between golems (magical dolls that humans used to get stuff done) and people a thousand years ago.