Wild Arms XF

Yeah I know I said I would be taking a break from getting new games for a while, but I couldn't help but to take a look at what is yet to come. Curiosity killed the cat, no? Still, I just had to see what else this year had to offer and one game that caught my eye was Wild Arms XF, for the PSP.

Granted, I haven't been the biggest Wild Arms fan and the only entry in the series that I spent any considerable amount of time with was the original, back on the PS1. I was excited in the beginning when I had heard about Alter Code F (a remake of that original), but was quickly shut off from it as I believe the spirit that made that game great was lost in it's "enhancing."

I've also been searching for some decent RPGs for the PSP, but haven't really come across anything worth while so far. Well, besides FF7: Crisis Core later this month and the re-release of FFT. I'm not sure about the PSP version of Disgaea, as I never came around to picking that one up. Besides those, I really haven't seen much out there that has caught my eye.

But getting back to the point, I am intrigued by this one mainly because it takes a similar style of game play like a Final Fantasy Tactics. I've generally enjoyed these types of turned based, strategy games (Disgaea comes to mind here too) and my first PS1 game was of this type (Vandal Hearts). So the hope now is that maybe this one will re-capture the magic I feel this series lost a great many years ago.

Will it or will it not happen? I suppose the one and only way to find this out for sure is to buy it when it gets released. I'm just hoping that it won't end up feeling like I've made a mistake, just a mere five minutes into the game. I hate that feeling and let me tell you... I've experienced that a great deal too often these past several years.

So here's hoping...!