If you had bet me that Gust, developers of pretty much Atelier games, and only Atelier games, was going to try and make something outside of their wheelhouse, which has been the JRPG for many years now, I'd… have lost a fair amount of money to you.
If you had bet me that Gust, developers of pretty much Atelier games, and only Atelier games, was going to try and make something outside of their wheelhouse, which has been the JRPG for many years now, I'd… have lost a fair amount of money to you.
I didn't expect to enjoy Nights of Azure as much as I do, especially given its frustrating habit of cheapening its female protagonists by presenting them as both serious characters and jiggly eye candy.
Nights of Azure is an example a very decent game that could have been great given more time and money.
Nights of Azure on the PlayStation 4 is fun anime!
It's not too often that you get a JRPG set in the ‘real' world, with place names that you recognize and a time period that is easily identifiable. Nights of Azure takes place in the 19 th Century, and though Ruswal Island, where it takes place, is fictional, you have many references to missions...
Positives + Fast-paced; enjoyable gameplay + Good variety of tasks and environments
Negatives; Unnecessary oversexualization of characters and their motivations; Translation issues; Bland visuals
Gust, the brains behind the Atelier series, returns with Nights of Azure representing a new, darker direction for Gust. While the Atelier series mostly embodies a very light-hearted, happy-go-lucky, and innocent ambience, for Gust to present a game that boasts to be darker and grittier is quite...
cooler; darker ambience; character interactions & development; accessibility/simplicity; straightforward and concise; not pressured to commit your life
not challenging enough; lack of customization/variability
Plays very much like Final Fantasy which isn't my cup of tea.
As a general rule, RPGs are my favorite games to play. I like to find a game with an intriguing story, one that you keep on playing simply because you want to find out what happens next. However, it also has to have decent gameplay or I will get bored of doing the same thing over and over.
Pre-ordered this kind of on a whim a few months ago and it just came out yesterday. Got to playing it today and ended up being quite pleased with the decision. It's the first game in a long time where I could sit down for hours on end and be entertained the whole time.
Looks like Gust was trying something new with more than their turn based rpgs of the Atelier franchise. The game is similar to a lot of other games in its genre, but seems to still have some personality of its own. Definatly worth a play through for any action or JRPG fan.
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