Luminous Arc is a Turn-Based Strategy game for the DS that involves everything from Witches to whiny Angels!

User Rating: 8.5 | Luminous Arc DS
By Paully3433 | Review Date:
Picture this, your a young fellow named Alph who is a student under a respected Knight who is training you to save the world from witches. Alright that being said you take on your adventure, your mission from the church you serve to irradicate any witches you find. That basically the story line of Luminous Arc, sound interesting? I didn\\\'t think so either, until I got passed the very cheesy dialogue for the most part and dug a little deeper. 25 chapters take you on through the adventure and around that many hours, I think i got around 30 in it with a few extras that I did. After collecting a few friends for your journey, your little bro and a chick named Cecille, who i think Alph really wants deep down, you head out and take on some witches. In between the actual parts of the story is random encounters marked on the map with little crossing swords. There is usually one or more of them inbetween each section of story. In most cases, I went through each of them twice just to gain some Exp and get some new spells.

During Battle you fight on a grid based map where you and your enemies can only travel so many squares. Some of the abilities let you enhance your stats, speed, tech, attack, resist. guard, magic and such, while others use different types of elements of magic unique to each character. In battle you gain exp for what you do, most times around 25-30 for each turn. When you reach 100 you automatically gain a level, stats increase and your HP and MP goes back to full, very nice and makes you take chances a little more. While gaining exp, you have a a FP gauge that fills up slowly that you can do a ablitliy that usually is more powerful than your normal attack.

Overall the game is very linear, you can't do much but do the encounters again and do some shopping. One thing you can do is later on in the game you get things called Vitae which you can get appraised for a whopping 2000 bucks and then you can imbue them to your weapons. If you buy weapons and armor every chance you get, you probably dont need to do this, I didn't and beat the game fairly easily.

Graphics look fairly good in this but the story does lack some depth. Also the characters can get quite annoying. Overall I wish the game would have been a bit more challenging, the last battle is a set of two if i remember right, and I successfully beat the game without losing a character. In some of the battles before that, I did lose 1 or 2 guys.

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