/vr/ - Retro Games

2 is easily the best, TLR is a solid game but kind of uneventful storywise and the procedural dungeons can't really measure up to 2. 1 is carried hard by its OST and story moments since the actual gameplay isn't very refined. Remake is fucking batshit but in a fun way that more remakes should be. Never actually played the GBA entry, did I miss out?

>>9949835
2/2

We go into heavy speculations at this point since there is very little to go on, but the DS remake implies humanity has fought the Sinistrals countless times before and always lost - It is only with Maxim they now survive their extinction event. (If memory serves, the advanced equippable cores in the remake are implied to be remains of these earlier human civilizations wiped out by the Sinistrals)

The only way I can make sense of this is if Arek is a creator god responsible for creating both humans and the other gods, as well as the world and likely the Dual Blade itself. As the creator of the world itself, he observes it and gets alerted by the Dual Blade whenever a human strong enough to challenge a god is available. Since his ultimate goal is to determine if gods (And by extension, himself) are needed, his revival of the Sinistrals and hindrance of good gods during these times is a "test" for his human creations to prove themselves independant. Ultimately, he desires to not be needed and for his creation to go on without him.

Of course, there are some holes in this; For instance, how many times does he need to run the test to be positive of the gods obsolence? Personally, since the pre-release material for Ruins Chasers mention Arek would join the other Sinistrals at Doom Island and the "Truth would be revealed" I imagine Ruins Chasers would had been the game where the final confrontation with him would happen. Which would put it at three tests.

However, then we run into The Legend Returns which is the third test for humanity. And suprise - We don't fight Arek whatsover and he never shows up. My headcannon is Miyata still wanted Ruins Chasers to be the finale of the Arek plotline and treated TLR more as stopgap storywise so he could easily just retcon the three tests to four once Ruins Chasers got made.

Which has yet to happen, but oh well.

>>9833462
I hadn't played 1 before

It fucking destroyed me

Everything wrong with post-2000 jap character design in a pic