A entertaining RPG that isn't great but has a very fun unique battle system and a neat storyline to keep you playing.
In this world there are "golems" a created being which will do the will of its creator or master as it was made. These golems are used for just about any and every activity or labor from selling pizzas to guarding the citizens from foreign threats these golems are also created through enchanting. In Enchanted Arms you play as Atsuma a young man enrolled into a high-class school to learn enchanting. Atsuma is special, he is not like ordinary people he has an arm with a unique ability that nullifys any and all enchantments that it comes into contact with. This power makes many see him as a burden and annoying because enchantments he comes near are in danger and the world depends heavily on enchantments in many ways. Even though many have these ill feeling of Atsuma he is a very upbeat person who doesn't let things get him down easily and it almost always cheerful.
Atsuma spends most of his time with his two best friends Toya and Makado he seems to have an extremly strong bond with these two even though they don't always get along the greatest. One day while the three of them were ditching school going to the fair suddenly the golems of the city began to revolt and charge through the city without mercy heading for the school. Confused of what was going on and afraid more innocent people would get hurt they followed the golems to the school. When they arrived to the damaged school Atsuma saw his pet dog run into the "forbidden sector" where nobody is allowed to enter and it is usually sealed by a powerful enchantment. To rescue his pet he follows charging blindly deeper in search of his dog until they come across a large icy room next thing they know before them stood a legendary "devil golem" an ancient and all powerful type of golem used in the dreadful golem wars of the past when the world engulfed in war.
When I began the game there were 3 things that I expected and to my suprise none of them I found these 3 things are amazing next-gen graphics, a lame storyline, and medicore gameplay. One thing I noticed about Enchanted Arms was that although it's graphical prowess was very good it wasn't all that impress for next-gen capabilities. Although there is no problem with the graphics and it doesn't hamper the gameplay in any way I just felt that they didn't push the graphics as much as they could and it could have looked amazing instead of just good. As I played through Enchanted Arms my enjoyment of the battle system is uses grew and grew which was a very good thing because the amount of random battles you fight in this game is intense but at least it makes you gain lots of levels. In this combat system when you arrive in combat your in a 8x6 grid, this grid is split in half in two 4x3 segments. Inside this grid you must stay on your side with your team of up to 4 characters and/or golems and on the opposite side would be your opponents which also must stay of their side. In combat you can use a variety of attacks, magic attacks, and special skills this allows you to have different strategies at dispatching your enemies.
Like many games you have HP and SP, HP being your hit points obviously your life when you run out of this you die. SP is your special points the amount of special attacks and magic skills you can use during a battle this can be recharged by waiting your turn instead of taking an action. The reason I bring this up is because in Enchanted Arms every single attack you can use costs a certain amount of SP dependent on its usefulness and/or stregnth. This is neat because after every battle your SP resets to full so unlike many RPGs you don't have to conserve your points for bosses and other hard things you can use as much as you want during every battle at your own leisure.
With a very fun entertaining battle system that i expected to be mediocre, a interesting storyline that isn't amazing but will keep you very interested in the continuation of the story and the characters, and the next-gen graphics that are good but not great as most next-gen graphics are this game suprised me alot. I rate Enchanted Arms a 7.7 out of 10 I expected it to be a random RPG that wasn't that good but for $20.00 this game was very good I know lots of people gave this game bad reviews but it you are an RPG fan and you own a PS3 I would definatly suggest picking it up for the small price tag of $20.00.