I was curious by this game for the memes and ridiculous voice acting. Destroy Chaos. That is all I knew we had to do but this game went from a laugh fest to a heart-wrenching tale that made me cry.
First off, if you've played Nioh. Welcome to Nioh with a Final Fantasy skin. The gameplay, the mission layout, the currencies. It's flat out, Nioh and it's awesome.
The Nioh layout was a more accessible souls game and Stranger of Paradise does a fantastic job at being both easy if you want it to be and hard as freakin nails if you choose to play it's harder difficulty setting once you beat the game.
Our main character is Jack, a normal dude who has one goal. Destroy Chaos and that is his whole personality. The plot starts off very simple but then as you play, the hidden reports, the hidden meaning behind characters words. You begin to realise, that it's convoluted and way more intense than you think.
I can't stress enough how this game takes ridiculous over the top acting and gameplay and blends it in the end with the first time I have ever genuinely started crying in gameplay. Not just a cutscene.
This game IS ridiculous. This game IS over the top. However it manages to weave a fantastic ending and is just a huge throwback to how I felt playing a PS3 game for the first time in my parents lounge room.