(Stranger of Sword City, NIS America)Ĭreating party members from the ground-up can be fun, but I have several qualms with the system. I ended up having to make a cleric just to reach that specific skill before multi-classing into a Wizard, which I feel is too troublesome and unnecessary for making such an important class viable for dungeon exploration. While the Cleric learns a skill which regenerates MP while exploring dungeons, the Wizard does not. However, the Wizard quickly runs out of MP, forcing the player to constantly leave the dungeon to recover. Without this buff, the enemies are nearly invulnerable to weapons. The player starts with six playable characters, and can immediately fill in the other ten slots at the beginning of the game.Īll the classes suit their own purposes and it is highly advisable to keep a wide variety of classes in your party. My only complaint on the classes is that, in an early dungeon of the game, the party needs to have a Wizard for its Magic Weapon buff. Every other spot could be filled by any mixture of melee and ranged damage. From my experience, the only essential classes in the six-person parties were Knights, Clerics, and Wizards. Characters can multi-class in order to combine a limited amount of skills from the old class with their new abilities. The Dancer and Ranger take up support roles from the backlines alongside the Cleric and Wizard. Classes vary from the tanky Knight, to the high-damage Fighter, Samurai, and Ninja. The only real restriction on the protagonist is that they have to be human. The main protagonist has a wide range of customizable options including their gender, age, appearance, class, and stats. The dwellers of Escalario talk often about their strong and differing beliefs. Every character wants to find a way to save everyone from Escario, and the game explores ideas of existentialism and self-interest. Each of the three leaders serves as a vessel for a different god, with widely differing motives. From there, you’re promptly declared a “Stranger,” that is, a magical outsider who has the power to hunt special creatures, called Lineage Types. These Lineage Types drop Blood Crystals which are central to the story, as they provide Sword City’s leaders with the power to make a difference. The story begins with the blank slate protagonist surviving a plane crash and waking up within the mystical realm of Escario, the Sword City. That said, it is stuffed with gorgeous art, a beautiful soundtrack, satisfying combat, and interesting boss hunting mechanics. It requires dozens of hours of grinding for EXP and treasure, and it is extremely time consuming. I have trouble deciding on how much I actually like this game. It has a wide variety of equipment types, classes, races, and the possibility of perma-death. The entire game revolves around hunting elusive boss monsters and searching for loot within perilous, maze-like dungeons. Stranger of Sword City is a turn-based dungeon-crawler game developed by Experience and published by NIS America.
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