Skies of Arcadia Legends
Skies of Arcadia Legends is an enhanced GameCube port of Skies of Arcadia. It follows the air pirate Vyse and his companions as they explore a world of floating continents and oppose the Valuan Empire, which…
Skies of Arcadia Legends is an adventure developed by Overworks, released 26 December 2002 on Nintendo GameCube and PlayStation 2.
What Skies of Arcadia Legends is
Skies of Arcadia Legends is an adventure game developed by Overworks and released in 2002. It was published by Sega. It is available on Nintendo GameCube and PlayStation 2.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game takes place in the fictional skies referred to as Arcadia, where six civilizations coexist on floating continents orbited by six moons of different colors. Thousands of years prior to the present time of the game, the civilizations, one of which existed for each moon, developed technologically to the point where each created a Gigas, a colossal living weapon of mass destruction, controlled by a Moon Crystal. Using the Gigas, the civilizations warred with one another, threatening the extinction of humanity. The most advanced, the Silver Civilization, used their Gigas to summon the Rains of Destruction, which pulled meteors from the orbiting moons and crashed them down onto the…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Skies of Arcadia Legends holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 12 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Skies of Arcadia Legends launched on 26 December 2002, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, SimCity 4, Sonic Advance 2 and Space Rangers. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, SimCity 4, Sonic Advance 2, Space Rangers.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Skies of Arcadia Legends yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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