#wild arms 2

[pyreflydust]

[disastertiffic]

Pillbugs!

[littleeyesofpallas]

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[dollfishu]

Wild Arms 2nd Ignition Official Artwork ~

[dragamation]

Knight Blazer

September 2nd was the 24th Anniversary of Wild Arms 2! A really cool game I still think about a bunch. I redrew the Shin Kamen Rider poster but with Blazer and I think it looks really good.

More jrpgs need some tokusatsu influence its the coolest thing when they do.

[thewapolls]

[!] A Random Poll has Appeared!

[dragongirl-tail]

i love this art soooo much

source post (afaik): https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/7060408 artist: sako (namocake) / さこ / https://twitter.com/bis_cotti / https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/289343

[darkspeardrifter]

A little trivia contribution to the latest post of the WA Boss Poll @littleeyesofpallas surrounding Lord Blazer.

The "demon" known as Lord Blazer is referred to in-game as the "Blaze of Disaster", and the "Disaster" part of his title ties into his origins, which are not explained properly without official Japanese guides.

To put it simply, Lord Blazer is a Disaster, an antithesis to the Guardians of the series; If the Guardians are the powers that sustain the world, then a Disaster is a power that destroys it. Furthermore, Disasters grow stronger via negative emotions and feelings, much like how faith in the Guardians is a factor of how they can be potentially strengthened.

Supplementary material reveals that Lord Blazer was born from a pair of wings that fell off of Moor Gault, the Guardian of Fire, and it is evident due to the presence of black wings attached to his head. Additionally, Lord Blazer's appearance influences other Disasters within the series, namely the Disasters fought in Nightmare Castle in WA3.

This tiny bit of additional trivia may not have been worth mentioning, but I find it interesting that art of Lord Blazer depicts him as having no face, while the model in-game does the opposite, showing him with a smile and maybe a nose, yet never showing any eyes as that area is covered in shadow.

And he has hair in the back, too.

[blackcoffeecomics]

[driver270]

Some games are so nice, I've Platinumed them twice! 😅

[pyreflydust]

[disastertiffic]

[littleeyesofpallas]

Poking around my copy of the Fargaia Chronicle and I realized I don't think I've ever seen this sketch of Marivel's disguise from the early game posted online anywhere. Or this singular illustration of Sword Mage Ashley.

It's a shame this art book actually has a surprisingly tight binding for a paperback, it makes it hard to even try to scan properly without the risk of cracking the spine, so the best I can manage are these camera photos with a little bit of lighting adjustment.

oh and incidentally, there's also this color one from the gameguide that actually matches the sprite design

[orikunlunch]

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[dragamation]

West of Fire 2

Breath of Fire 2 and Wild Arms 2 being two of the topics that are just rattling around in my brain forever resulted in this idea. The two honestly have a buncha similarities, especially BoF 3 onwards.

Love how this turned out!