Skies of Arcadia

Recently I have become heavily enamored of a game called Valkyria Chronicles on the PS3. What does VC have to do with Skies of Arcadia?

The fact that the three main characters in Skies appear in your squad roster in Valkyria Chronicles. Now I am a huge fan of crossovers in games. My favorite Soul Caliber game included the appearance of Link, from Ocarina of Time. So of course I chose to add Vyse and Aika to my roster and use them frequently.

There is a psychological theory that things you are familiar with create a positive feeling within you. Then if you encounter them in another location, you connect the positive feeling. The more this happens the more you like it. It is a sense of resonance that you equate with the thing you recognize. This is why after a long time you become used to something and it bothers you less. Why things from the past seem more wonderful.

So of course, the more I used these characters in VC, the more I wanted to see the rest of their story. So I decided to play Skies of Arcadia, a game I had always wanted to play, just never got around to. A search of my game library, a considerable collection to be honest, however showed that I did not own the game. I remember having it at some point. I do not have it now though.

At the end of the day, I was forced to turn to eBay to find it. This event once more shows why I think eBay is far and away the best thing ever created on the Internet. 🙂

What I am playing this weekend: Valkyria Chronicles

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