Another Crusade

Another Crusade

released on Sep 15, 2023

Another Crusade

released on Sep 15, 2023

The spiritual successor of a super RPG and its seven stars. A timed-battle role playing game where timing and strategy is all! Another Crusade gathers the gameplay mechanics of Super Mario RPG. Timed-battle commands and exploration as a platformer are part of the game. The game is currently on a kickstarter and is set to be published on Q4 2021.


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This game was on my radar a bit. Like, it was a very faint blip on the edge of the display that I see and think, "oh, right, that thing..." It went on sale for $4.99 (what it is actually worth) so I decided to try it. It's definitely a really low budget Unity game. The wooden-marionette approach to its character design definitely lends itself to the quality of the entire game in the same way that Pixar decided to do a movie about toys because the animation technology wasn't advanced enough to make good-looking humans. Though, graphics are really only just one thing, and the game having a vision for its art design really does help you forget how low budget it looks. What's missing here, for me, is a compelling story, and some balance.

The wall I hit was an area being a little too difficult, level-wise, right after I had beaten an area that I was just strong enough to make it through. Maybe the consequence of a studio's first RPG that it doesn't nail level-progression too well, but it's a hump I didn't care too much to get over because the story is very tongue-in-cheek. Not exactly the type of person to find a character going "Oh, what a cliche!" very endearing. Very not-for-me on top of its problems, so I unfortunately do not care to finish this one. Which stinks because I feel like I'm not finishing too many things, but games are here to enjoy, not to toil over. I have to keep remembering that, lol.