Battle Princess of Arcadias Critic Reviews

Battle Princess of Arcadias is a lot of things at once, an action side scroller, a JRPG, and a strategy game. Mostly it's just a great game made of simple, familiar parts.

Battle Princess of Arcadias is a beautiful game, and it has a truly charming narrative and set of characters.

With a great musical score and just the right level of cute without being annoying, Battle Princess of Arcadias is a game worth checking out.

A fun RPG beat 'em up that puts all the emphasis on easy fun at the expense of a coherent storyline. Great for when you just want to sit back, relax, and not think about anything.

Battle Princess of Arcadias is an incredibly fun game that you should definitely give a shot.

It does, however, have a great combat system, diverse customization, colorful art, and a stellar soundtrack. Battle Princess dutifully delivers 30 hours of almost uninterrupted challenging and engaging combat.

There is a solid little ARPG here with a charming cast of characters, but the real question is, can you handle all the grinding?

Battle Princess of Arcadias is the triumph of grinding, and this might be annoying for some players. Anyway, the particular visual style, the growth of characters, the large number of classes and the continuous sense of challenge, framing a quality action-Jrpg.

When the layers of the experience are peeled back, what we’re left with at Arcadias‘ core is a sluggish brawling RPG that can sometimes lack the kind of gameplay merit needed for sustainability beyond a handful of hours.

Not quite RPG, not quite brawler, Battle Princess of Arcadias manages to inhabit its own little space between the two. The positives of the combination more than outweigh the negatives of not focusing on a specific genre, and like any good royal, the game will leave you smiling after each and every visit.

If you can break through the walls it puts up for the player then there’s a rich and rewarding experience to be had.

While it doesn’t get everything it tries to do right, Battle Princess of Arcadias is still an enjoyable action-adventure that mixes some unique gameplay twists together with a serious level of beat-em-up satisfaction.

As it stands Battle Princess of Arcadias is a neat endeavor across divergent styles – and not much else.

A solid beat'em up with a JRPG structure: this proud ostentation of Nipponese traits means that you'll find nonsense cut-scene as well as trying grinding session.

Battle Princess of Arcadias could have been exceptional but ends up being average.

Allow yourself to be taken in by the bright colours and easy controls and silly story, and the steep difficulty might turn you off it entirely. Recognize, however, that those are simply fun additions to what amounts to a challenging RPG, however, and the dissonance might not be so bad.

Actually kind of fun once you get past the game's daunting early portions.

Battle Princess of Arcadias is a perfect example of what it means to be a middle-of-the-road RPG.

Despite its glaring faults, Battle Princess of Arcadias still makes for a decent hybrid of RPG and Beat-’Em-Up, even if it lacks the visual and mechanical polish of Vanillaware’s titles.

Beyond the threadbare narrative and vacant cast are some interesting battle systems and lovely aesthetic qualities. Unfortunately, it has almost as much unfulfilled potential as it does promise, never managing to separate itself from the crowd or do much of note to truly demand your attention.