Jump into the Continent of Prodesto, this game will have players embark on a journey of the ages, battling some incredible monsters, meeting soma amazing people, and perhaps learning some terrible truths. Welcome to Soul Nomad and the World Eaters, no this isn’t a Danish thrash metal band, it’s a video game. Each new hero and group they represent change up the tactics for battle-and in so doing the strategy you, both, start fights and end them with. As you grow, rewards and replayability do as well. Soul Nomad doesn’t necessarily reinvent the wheel when it comes to grid-based combat, and the implementation of AI to make decisions that the player might otherwise feel limited-but the sheer scale and growth the game has over the course of it’s something like fifty campaign levels feel worth the time spent. That being said, the succeeds at always feeling personal through the use of Gig and the protagonist-even as the battles continue to grow in size and epic-scale as your army does. In that way, each room that serves to lend strength to your battles also lends to the complexity of them-making the whole thing feel much more similar to large-scale troop assignments in something like Total War. As the game progresses through the grid, rooms of squads and soldiers are often led by some archetypal hero, and function as such in battle. As something like Final Fantasy II might offer larger and larger creatures, this game will offer larger and larger armies.

While the gameplay of Soul Nomad is extremely plot-driven, it also lends itself to a larger scale.

With that set-up, the story sets itself up for some emotionally powerful moments intermingled with a lot of humor usually surrounding Gig who, as a trapped demigod, really doesn’t like being ordered around by ordinary citizens of the world. That said, the only one with the power to stop the world-eaters is Gig, who has now fused with you, the protagonist-and the only problem, Gig doesn’t have as much interest in saving the world as you do. It feels in a lot of ways like the beginning of God of War 3.

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