CWs for The Legend of Sword and Fairy: sexual assault, kidnapping, blood, drowning, falling from great heights, getting crushed to death, fridging women.
Despite finding out about the franchise less than a week ago, it is unsurprising how familiar The Legend of Sword and Fairy feels. It may sound extreme given the very small footprint the game has on English language internet, but I think we don't arrive at FFX or the general modern tradition of cinematic RPGs without this game.
The maze dungeons overstay their welcome and a lot of the love triangle beats are deeply unpleasant to sit through given the ending, but the scale of the world and the way the cast members rotate as witness to each others' lives is so so so compelling. Sword and Fairy makes very delicate moves within the usual genre tools (skill progression, forced party changes, one-way map connections) to express loss and a general lack of control amid a magnificent, tumultuous, and reserved magical tragedy. An absolute must and a likely missing puzzle piece for RPG fans young and old.
Despite finding out about the franchise less than a week ago, it is unsurprising how familiar The Legend of Sword and Fairy feels. It may sound extreme given the very small footprint the game has on English language internet, but I think we don't arrive at FFX or the general modern tradition of cinematic RPGs without this game.
The maze dungeons overstay their welcome and a lot of the love triangle beats are deeply unpleasant to sit through given the ending, but the scale of the world and the way the cast members rotate as witness to each others' lives is so so so compelling. Sword and Fairy makes very delicate moves within the usual genre tools (skill progression, forced party changes, one-way map connections) to express loss and a general lack of control amid a magnificent, tumultuous, and reserved magical tragedy. An absolute must and a likely missing puzzle piece for RPG fans young and old.