There was a live stream today about the upcoming Wild Arms mobile game, Wild Arms: Million Memories, which included its first trailer as well as new details.
Million Memories stars the main characters of all the Wild Arms games, along with a new character named Brittany Shrewsbury. It will have many other characters, both new and returning, as well.
You’ll play through main quests, sub-quests focused on characters, and limited time events, so it sounds like the basic mobile JRPG formula. They also showed the gameplay, which puts you in control of a party of three characters, plus one support character, for… action combat?
Here’s the gameplay segment of the live stream, recorded by DualShockers.
Why do this? There are popular turn-based mobile RPGs out there, so why make the Wild Arms mobile game action-based?
So you’ll tap to attack, flick to dodge, switch between characters, and build up special attacks. It’s not entirely clear yet if it’ll be a gacha game or not. ARMs sound like the most natural place for gacha here, so maybe it won’t be too bad.
Still, it’s not what I hoped for from a new Wild Arms game. Maybe it will at least pave the way for a full (and turn-based) sequel.
Well, that’s a shame.
But as an action RPG with much the same controls, it can now compete directly with Dragalia Lost!
Urk. *dead*
Meh. I guess they think this is what people want. 😐 Hopefully they let some other company handle the mobile game for the most part rather than them thinking this is what the fan base would enjoy. I’ll buy it just to show support for Wild Arms, but hopefully it won’t make them think of doing a new console game that’s an action RPG..
*Yeah, apparently some other company developed it. Phew. It’s free to play with in app purchases so I guess I’ll just buy a few of those to support it. Sad times though.
Yeah, I hope if and when the Wild Arms series returns to consoles, it’s a turn-based game as usual.