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ARM, in this case, just seems to mean 'weapon'.Īside from that issue, the phrase 'Ancient Revolution Memorial' is used to describe enshrined ruins from the war between the Moderate and Radical Veruni factions. Everyone has ARMs, though, as soon as they are of legal age, but the various weapons called such range from simple guns to near-magical swords to powerful canons used by Asguard.

These monsters can only be found on Illsveil.Įven though the Twin Fenrir that Dean Stark inherits are officially declared ARMs, no acronym is given for the weapons used through the game. These form the bulk of the monsters, as well as a few NPCs, near the end of the game. Wild Arms 4 also calls any monsters created from out of control nannites, such as the Divine Weapon, 'Wild ARMs'.

XERD_004DW 'Divine Weapon': Buried deep within the island that would eventually become Illsveil Prison.

XERD_003SS 'Shapeshifter': Jude Maverick's ARM, which he inadvertently takes up at Ciel Shelter.

XERD_002GC 'Gun Claw': The ARM that belongs to Hauser Blackwell.

XERD_001HS 'Howling Spike': A prototype ARM that ends up being wielded by Kresnik Ahtreide.

The Global Union scientists developed the four following ARMs: ARMs in this game can only be used by ' Gene Drivers', whether natural-born or artificial. The ARMs in this game were developed by scientists with the purpose of repairing the environment of Filgaia destroyed during a 78-year world war. This definition applies in roughly in the same sense as the original ARMs acronym, except that the material is explicitly a fantastic view of nannite reconstruction (Jude's 'silver sand').

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Sadly, the extremely poor translation of the game makes some of this a bit unclear.Ī book in the Leyline Observatory, called Artifacts over Memories, uses the phrase 'Artifacts from Ruins: Memories' to describe machines that were activated through willpower, specifically portable machine weaponry similar to the ARMs seen in the rest of the series, as well as the technology used to create them. Marivel Armitage is also mentioned as an expert on the 'lost technology', making her various mecha as well as Kanon's cybernetic enhancements potentially arms as well. Oddly, both Ashley and Brad's weapons are referred to as 'ARMs' as well, making the acronym have an official double meaning. 'Awkward Rush & Mission Savers' is mentioned in dialog at one point, though this is actually the Japanese version of the regular acronym. In this case, the term refers to the party that the player controls, consisting, initially, of Brad Evans, Ashley Winchester, and Lilka Eleniak.

This refers to the Batour and other such weapons, so it pretty much means the same thing as the original meaning, but more.

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Basically, any firearm or special weapon found in the entire game series can qualify as an ARM, though mileage varies. In general, this definition of ARMs remains used through the rest of the series, in addition to and often despite whatever else the acronym is used for in later games. In this case, the acronym refers to any piece of lost technology, though most commonly refers to the weapons that Rudy Roughknight, Jane Maxwell and a handful of other people are able to use. This is presumably because both American and European copyright and trademark laws don't allow for the protection of an acronym with multiple meanings.

In a final move to end the confusion on the brand, Sony Entertainment has declared that the series itself is named 'Wild Arms', with no acronym. (The rushed release of Wild Arms 4 didn't help matters either, meaning that this and other errors with the release crept through anyway.) This was an error admitted to later, and was corrected where found. To confuse matters a little more, in some of the press release material for 'Wild Arms 4', xSeed, the localization company, relied on RPGamer's error and cited 'Wild ARMs' on a few occasions in their own material. The original 'Wild Arms' game, for instance, can sometimes still be called 'WILD ARMS', even in new material. This was officially reverted to 'Wild Arms', with correct capitalization, by Sony of America, though documentation for all the games in the series conflates the issue. This naming convention has earned a place within the fandom, but has never been correct. Due to bad localization, the website put the name forward as 'Wild ARMs' (due to the ARMs acronym being used within the game itself). The first three Wild Arms games used the form 'WILD ARMS' for their titles when initially released, with all the letters capitalized. The explanation of each of the known uses of the acronym is explained in the titles below. The meaning of ARMS changes constantly, often within the context of each game itself.

The acronym ARMS (or sometimes ARMs, or just ARM) is the motif recurring throughout the Wild Arms series of games.

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