I only played Lord of Arcana but have yet to finish it. I know about Apocalypse being an enhanced version of Arcana, don't know if the animations are all that different.
Anyway I kinda liked what I played of Arcana, but I get why they decided to make another version where there's no separate battle screen among other things.
The world feels just enough like Final Fantasy without actually being FF to be interesting visually to me. Bosses were cool, too, if really hard sometimes. Thinking of Bahamut.

Shit, I might actually just go back to it.

Prime material for an HD rerelease on Steam

>>4151817
>don't know if the animations are all that different
My praise was towards the feeling of the game in general. Movement feels good, and hitting the enemies with a big sword had nice feedback. I also liked how guarding seemed to work, but again, only played a bit of it so far.
>>4151840
Yeah that would be nice. Turns out the Vita release is also 30fps locked which is a shame.
I found a code for 60fps but will have to test what/if it breaks.

I also didn't expect it to have a character creator.

Played a bit more. This is a bit like Monster Hunter I guess. You take on a quest, prepare your party/gear, get rewards/materials and craft/upgrade your weapons.
The 60fps code seems to be working fine so far.

>>4152593
It is an MH-like, yes, in the same vein as quite a few other games at that time on the psp.
Some games that didn't typically have MH type combat did ape its mission structure too, like White Knight Chronicles Origins.

Can't figure out what the "agility" stat does at all. Noticed part damage and cutting wings and tails is a common boss mechanic as well.