Bear with me, because today?s installment of the PlayStation Classics might make new owners of the PlayStation Classic a little upset. Arc the Lad is a great and memorable game! It is also a PSOne Classic. It is also on a PlayStation Classic, but not the one you can easily acquire in North America and Europe. No, this strategic-RPG is only present on the Japanese version of the plug-and-play system. Which is sad for people who wanted to get it packed with other games on a small microconsole, but is no big deal for PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita, and PlayStation 3 owners who can just hop onto the PlayStation Store and grab this game right away.

A Fine Lad
Arc the Lad is one of those games following young people tasked with saving the world. When it begins, one person isn?t aware of their destiny, while the other has some idea. Arc is looking for his missing father, who has been absent for 10 years. During his search, he meets Kukuru, a young woman who is supposed to protect the Flame Cion due to her lineage as a Sacred White Clan member. When the two meet, she had already inadvertently unsealed the Ark Ghoul to avoid an arranged marriage. After the two tidy up that mess, they realize Arc (and his father) were chosen by a Guardian to save the world from evil. Arc and Kurusu then head out on a quest to save the world. This involves building up a party of other characters, sealing away monsters, collecting artifacts, and meet with various guardians and spirits. It inv...