I was digging through the closet last weekend and what stared me right in the face as I got in there a little bit? It was my Sega CD, banished from the living room since we moved into our new apartment. Now I knew it would be a gamble trying to slip that in there as I had just added a modded PSX to my living room arsenal but I decided to go for it anyway (God help me when I try getting that Game cube and Saturn in there). Much to my amazement and joy I met no resistance (resistance is futile) I think this may be due to the fact I have gotten her hooked on Dreamcast, M.A.M.E. and SSX for the PS2! Now that the Sega CD/Genesis is in there, she is hooked on a game I got for $3 called arrow flash.   

OK, so this title is one that is semi-legendary at least as far as you hear about Sega CD games. I don’t play many RPGs (FF2 6 7 8 &9 and a few others) but I figured since many of the Full Motion Video (yuk!!!!!!!!!!!!) games on the Sega CD suck arse and there are only a few side scroller type games (they could have done the best side scrollers ever on it but they were retarded) I should start doing some Sega CD RPG games. Although I knew that Lunar was supposed to be the best I popped in Vay anyway.

Being my impatient self, I got frustrated that on first run you cannot skip the intro. I’m glad now that I took the time to watch it because the anime stuff was pretty darn cool. The gameplay is pretty much what you would expect from an RPG but this one has a special feature… you can hold down a button and walk really really fast! Unfortunately monster encounters happen every 5 seconds this way but it is a good way to level up. 

At this point I am totally addicted to this game. One thing that makes it stand head and shoulders above all the Genesis RPGs I ever played was the music. It has a pretty cool soundtrack and there are lots of voice tracks during the anime scenes. It keeps a good pace too and during those repetitive monster battles you can just click  the A.I. option and your people just fight till the battle is over, they even heal and cure poison without your aid.

The story line is excellent and I wont give away major plot points but lets just say the main hero is full of righteous indignation. There are many corny gags like the wind fairy that transports you to an island by farting you there, and if one of your characters has a face mask and the other two don’t then they will go crazy from the stench and kill the one who does… Hope you saved before you got there. 

Another nice thing is that as far as I can tell by how far I am already, in the days of 300 hour RPGs this one will only take about two weeks to beat (or maybe one week if you are single and have no job) 

Synopsis: This game is killer, it might not have the best in game graphics like FF7 ect… but it is well worth it for the cool Anime, Music and storyline, besides its one of the best games ever made for Sega CD and you’ve got to love putting one of those things to use!