

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.


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. 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. 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 & The World Eaters (PlayStation 2) review Language: English Words: 959 Chapters: 1/1 Collections: 1 Kudos: 10 Hits: 302 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.

Now that Gig has a body, the scars of Vigilance’s death are beginning to show - or maybe they’re just becoming more obvious.) They knew he hadn’t become the destroyer of worlds willingly. An ocean of power locked away, a seething riptide of cruel thoughts longing to drag them down, down, down. In the space behind Revya’s eyes, Gig seemed omnipresent and invincible. having a body just makes it more obvious.
