The sense of adventure here is very similar to the kind that you would get from One Piece, though I would say it’s more easily accessible given the contained nature of Skies of Arcadia’s plot. In fact, if the remaster report for Skies of Arcadia doesn’t pan out, then Sega should at least consider making the game into an anime. There’s a thrill and enjoyment present here that’s very similar to the kind of joy you would get watching a Saturday morning cartoon or an anime. You want to sail the skies, find discoveries, and defeat giant sky monsters not to fill up some obligatory checklist, but because it’s fun. It’s weird to say that my favorite things about Skies of Arcadia are the optional elements that have nothing to do with the main story, but that just goes to show how fun it is to role-play as a pirate captain.
The best part is, when you make these discoveries, the information travels, and you’re able to go into towns and see how people are reacting to mind-shattering news like learning the world is round. They’re the ones making history and you, inadvertently, are also expanding the knowledge of the world. When you sail to a new country that was thought to be undiscovered, the characters marvel at their findings and get excited because they’re going to be the first people to actually set foot there. Some of the discoveries are optional and serve as fun little landmarks for you to sail past, but others are mandatory and help to drive home your accomplishments in the game. You have a vague idea of where you should be going, but as you chart more and more of the world, you begin to make discoveries and jot them down in your notebook. When you’re sailing around the world, most of it is uncharted territory. Every time you get one of these new upgrades, it fills your mind with a rush of adrenaline and you find yourself asking what you’re going to find next. Slowly you’re able to sail through floating reefs, navigate tornadoes, increase and decrease your ship’s altitude, and eventually even submerge your ship beneath the clouds to explore the surface of the planet you live on. At first, you have a small ship that is limited in how it can navigate through the air, but as the game progresses, you get bigger and better ships that have more capabilities. In Skies of Arcadia, the overworld exploration is where all of the excitement is. In most RPGs, overworld navigation tends to be an underwhelming journey from point A to point B. He’s almost a Robin Hood-like figure in an era of brooding protagonists that were more interested in introspective drama than extroverted socialization. In an era where Cloud Strife and Squall Leonhart were setting the tone for how an RPG protagonist was meant to behave, Vyse was all about helping the downtrodden, putting his own life at risk to save his friends, and doing what’s right because it’s right. He has a sense of wonder about him that most other RPG protagonists didn’t have and arguably still don’t. When we meet him, he’s a spirited young man who wants nothing more than to assemble his own pirate crew and sail around looking for adventure. While most of the mechanics surrounding the game are fairly standard for the genre, what elevated Skies of Arcadia above its peers was just how likable of a protagonist Vyse is. To do so, you assemble a crew of pirates and sail the skies, searching for hidden treasure, claiming bounties on dangerous criminals, and, of course, fighting the enemy in turn-based combat. In the world of Skies of Arcadia, you take on the role of Vyse, a sky pirate, who alongside his partners Aika and Fina sails the skies in order to put a stop to the evil Valuan Empire and its ambitious plans to take over the world.
While I’m not one to get my hopes up about a port finally coming to light, if one does happen, then audiences are going to discover a true gem with Skies of Arcadia thanks to its boundless optimism and its infectious sense of adventure. There have been teases about HD versions of the original game dating back to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 era, but nothing materialized from there. Until now, Skies of Arcadia had received an expanded port in 2003 for GameCube, but that’s about it. Recently, a report came out that Sega plans to remaster the 2000s Dreamcast RPG for modern consoles. Skies of Arcadia is currently one of those games. But then you have games that are forgotten and ignored by companies that fans are clamoring for a re-release of. on its latest system, Skyrim will continue to release on everything in existence, and someone will always find a way to play Doom on every piece of tech ever made. Nintendo will always have a version of Super Mario Bros. In an age of remasters and ports, some games will never not be made available to audiences.
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