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I love Archaic Sealed Heat from beginning to end, I really wish it would be localized one day. I like the story and characters so much that I bought the drama CD right after I finished the game. It's sold dirt cheap everywhere too due to bad rap, around $15 most of the time (I got it at $40.. ) The pre-rendered battles and CGs in between were some of the best on the DS.

Glory of Hercules I'm not too crazy about, I just found the turn-based battles very mundane and a couple of hours I had to put it down. The humor was there to liven up the dialogue I guess, I still can't believe I mistake the guy up there as a girl, any way you look at the anime intro it's a chick, just like Guilty Gear's Bridget.

As for UIV, it's still my favorite game of all-time, primarily because of the ethics sytem built-in to the game. I've been waiting over 20 years now for someone else to come along and build on that system by making it more nuanced and less black and white (yet still integral to progression), but it seems I'll be waiting a bit longer yet

Kind of weird to finally get a Glory of Heracles game over here…

Anyway, games that question the morality of stealing have been around forever. Some games (even JRPGs) lower karma values for taking other people's stuff, and the Ultima series really played around with this – Ultima IV is considered revolutionary because it was one of the very first games where you had to avoid doing things like killing the respawning guards to take their armor or stealing from shops or killing fleeing foes. In later Ultima games, party members will yell at you for stealing, sometimes even leave the party (and of course, villagers who see you stealing will call for guards to come arrest you).

I too, think Soma Bringer is deserving of a worldwide release.