<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Also the graphics haven't really been improved in quality, but they certainly have put extra detail into the characters, they look a little more advanced, hair, clothing, and hands. Also the clouds seam more realistic, the animations have also been updated.
They changed some of the music, and added a few new tunes that I don't remember hearing. They added more details to the towns, such as wanted posters and such (they might have been in the DC version, I just never looked at them), and they added the whole wanted thing to shipsguild where you can claim a bounty for hunting black pirates.
Due to the much lower encounter rate outside, and the quick loading of battles, I am no longer discouraged to go out and seek new discoveries, I have more discoveries now than I think I ever had before, and I'm only in the North Ocean just after Ixa'Taka! Moonfish are also a very nice addition, I hope I've found every single one of them, I guess Chams are easier to find as well (since sometimes I ignored my VMU). I have also found myself fishing quite often too, I didn't do that in the first version of the game at all. Saving is not a hassle anymore either since the whole process now takes about 1 second.
All in all, the game is more or less the extended complete version of the Dreamcast game, it is more advanced, fixes the issues that people had with the Dreamcast version, and has added a lot of side-quests (there's quite a bit more in this game than in the Dreamcast one, I can already tell that and I'm not even into the main part of the game yet).
As for the game itself, Skies of Arcadia is a fun game, it's all about adventure and exploration of distant lands, finding treasure. You begin by living with your parents on Pirate Island, and then you grow up as a crew-member on new ship sailing out and seeking adventure, and eventually you get your own ship, and your own crew. Then finally you've moved up to the leader of a town that you can customize to your will. Fighting significant battles in an evolving war, gaining allies, etc... There's a definite building process going on in the game, the characters and settings are great as well. The game reminds me (probably as far as characters and settings go) of Chrono Trigger on steroids, it definetly seams as an evolution of that particular game.</div>
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