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N1 clearly wants players to first play through the 45 minutes or so it takes to unlock the Normal Path’s “bad” ending, then the 40 hours or so the “good” ending requires on your second cycle, then unlock the “Demon Path” and get its “good” ending with your next 20 hours, and then replay the Demon Path for the “bad” ending with another 10-20 hours.

In practice, a player makes roughly four meaningful decisions throughout the duration of a 40-to-60 hour game that matter, and it’s very obvious what “order” you’re supposed to be making your decisions in. This sounds like a really great addition to the N1 gameplay, because if properly executed, it would be. You can even make decisions during the game about what to say, or what to do in certain situations. You can pick your protagonist’s gender and name, an N1 first, and your choices have a mild effect on the content of certain cutscenes and ending sequences. It wants to be an old-school throwback to the days when an RPG protagonist was meant to be nothing more than an extension of the player in the game’s fantasy world. Honestly, it’s hard to know where to start describing what this game gets wrong. Writing this pains me, to be honest, because ordinarily Nippon Ichi’s games reliably offer a tactical RPG fix few other developers can consistently deliver. The gameplay, although striving to be original, is an absolute turkey that doesn’t work on any level. Aside from a few interesting story beats and some occasional bright spots in the sprite-based graphics and sound design, there is absolutely nothing defensible about it.

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It is a bluntly terrible game, full of ill-conceived ideas that are poorly presented. Before Soul Nomad, I would have said that while you may be able to criticize Nippon Ichi’s titles for being overly-similar, the company had still never really made a bad game.

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Even the widely-disparaged Free Move system that showed up in Phantom Brave and Makai Kingdom struck me as enjoyable, and I actually liked Disgaea 2’s storyline. Not just the crowd-pleasers like Disgaea, either. The result is a game that lurches awkwardly from dramatic to goofy moments, and often expects the audience to laugh at characters who are about to do or experience something legitimately horrifying (to the tune of genocide, infanticide, or rape, as the case may be).'Īs a newcomer to, I feel obligated to start this review by pointing out that, under normal circumstances, I really like Nippon Ichi strategy games.

' Soul Nomad, much like Phantom Brave before it, tries very hard to tell a serious story while also purveying the jokes that it assumes Nippon Ichi fans can’t live without. Tell us what you think of Phantom Brave and Soul Nomad & the World Eaters combining as NIS Classics Vol.Soul Nomad & The World Eaters (PlayStation 2) review The strategy RPG genre, while never explosively popular, has also never quietly gone away either, and even Square Enix is finally getting back into the strategic action with Project Triangle Strategy, which has a demo on the Switch eShop right now. Preorders have already opened at the NIS America website for a $99.99 limited edition, which includes a hardcover art book, complete soundtrack, acrylic stands with collector’s coins, and of course a collector’s box. 1 would imply that a second volume is in the works, which is quite promising, but in the meantime, Phantom Brave and Soul Nomad & the World Eaters will do nicely on Nintendo Switch. As NIS America says, “ New and old fans alike can experience two classic titles from the NIS vault of RPG hits, complete with unique gameplay mechanics, memorable characters, up-scaled artwork, and all DLC from the original releases!”

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Both games are strategy RPGs from Nippon Ichi Software and were originally released for PlayStation 2 in 20 respectively. 1 is headed to Nintendo Switch in summer 2021, containing Phantom Brave and Soul Nomad & the World Eaters. One of the biggest is that NIS Classics Vol. New Game+ Expo 2021 had plenty of weeb-errific announcements for Nintendo Switch today.

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