Arena: Unreal City

Entering shops gives you a title card specific to the season. Note: for symmetry purposes, I so wanted to offer a posting here titled "Arena: Star Trail." I tried to think of any way I could thematically work that subtitle into an entry on the game, and I came up with nothing. The outdoor scenes don't even show stars at night. Let's take a deeper dive into Arena's cities. I covered them a bit in my second entry, but I understand them better now. Perhaps the most important thing to know about Arena's cities is that when you're analyzing them, it doesn't really matter what city you cover. They're pretty much all the same. But if it helps, the city that makes up all the screenshots and examples below is Lillandril on Summurset Isle. Let's first talk about how I got here: When I rested in the Halls of Colossus after finding the fourth piece of the Staff of Chaos, Ria Silmane appeared in my dreams to tell me that my next stop would be "an ancient stronghold of sorcery called the Crystal…