Skies of Arcadia is a role-playing game from 2000 released on the Sega Dreamcast. It was later ported to the Gamecube as Skies of Arcadia Legends. This will be a dub of the original Dreamcast release. The game stars Vyse, the son of Dyne who established the band of air pirates known as the Blue Rogues. The Blue Rogues are honorable pirates, never attacking airships run by merchants or citizens. Instead opting for a more Robin Hood-like mentality and attacking ships owned by the evil Valuan Empire. The Valuan Empire serves as the antagonists of this game. They seek to collect the Moon Crystals in order to awaken giant living weapons known as Gigas and use them to take over the world. Fina, a young girl sent by the Silver Shrine to collect the Moon Crystals before the Valuan Empire can, meets Vyse and his friend Aika along the way and they join together for the quest. The game features traditional turn-based battles similar to many of the RPGs of the time such as Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and Grandia. But Skies of Arcadia also features battles between large airships. In my opinion, this is a criminally underappreciated game on a criminally underappreciated console and deserves so much more attention. I also think it deserves a lot more attention from Sega, themselves. I've long wanted a sequel to this game. Or maybe even a prequel, chronicling Dyne's adventures as an air pirate. That would be rad.
