![]() ![]() Initially, though, the turn-based strategy on offer is so unlike the vast majority of other turn-based strategy games - or tactical RPGs, or whatever you want to call them - that it is just baffling. Above all, though, the thing that distinguishes Soul Nomad as a resolutely Nippon Ichi game is the way it takes traditional turn-based mechanics as merely the springboard to start a journey into the farthest reaches of originality and occasional brilliance. But there's a lot here that fans of, say, Disgaea, will already be familiar with: the basic but beautiful graphics the brilliantly bratty characters and umpteen different game endings (including one bad one after just half an hour of play). As the game introduces its sardonic and offensive anti-hero, it dawns on you that the whole thing has just been another one of Nippon Ichi's excellent jokes.įor anybody unfamiliar with Nippon Ichi's idiosyncratically offbeat sense of humour, the whole thing will probably be desperately bewildering. It's full of scrolling text, barely moving images, and a verbose mixture of cliché and piffle - what's a "clarion vesper", for example, and what's it doing in a videogame? But then, just as you're expecting to be unceremoniously dumped into the usual blend of boring stereotypes and po-faced solemnity, it changes tack. Levin is awfully worried that the Nereids are after his virtue, but it turns out he didn't really have anything to worry about.Soul Nomad starts off with one of those long, drawn-out introductions that seem to afflict every uninspired, shamelessly derivative RPG. Language: English Words: 959 Chapters: 1/1 Collections: 1 Kudos: 10 Hits: 310 The story is so over the top that Almaz wonders if the claim is true. The nerdy scientist had made a stupid claim in the English writing class that aliens exist and came up with a scenario proving they do. Alternate Universe - College/UniversityĪlmaz is concerned for Mao's mental state. ![]()
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