Or, if the quest giver is particularly cheap, you’ll instead get items that you can then trade with other NPCs in a barter system that somewhat mirrors the cash economy. Alongside the expected money and experience gains, you also usually come into a nice piece of loot to passively raise your stats. Each region is broken up into a series of large zones that are packed with enemies, pickups, and various environmental puzzles that hold treasure chests tantalisingly out of reach.Īlthough side quests rarely ask more of you than the standard fetch quest or kill missions, they nonetheless get you to engage fully with what each area has to offer, while granting you some nice rewards for your troubles. Though there’s a primary questline that you should follow to keep the story moving, the real meat of the game is found in picking up loads of side quests from NPCs and exploring all that the intricately designed free roam sections have to offer. Seeing as how the plot is centred around an MMO, the gameplay is similarly structured around that of a standard open-world MMO. Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) You’re incentivised to push forward not just to further unravel the mystery of where (or what) Lea is, but to also see what kind of meta-commentary and unique conflicts arise from being part of this game in a game. Though CrossCode never quite reaches the level of total immersion – where it truly feels like you’re playing an online game – it’s the little details in the world and the nuances in delineating the ‘real’ players from the CrossWorlds NPCs that make this world a delight to interact with. The game’s characters, locales, and weapons are constructed from a mixture of 'Instant Matter' and augmented reality trickery, which combine to grant players the most immersive RPG experience ever. The big selling point of CrossWorlds, however, is the fact that the game does not take place in a fictitious, virtual world, but a real place that’s simply on another planet. Although this Switch version notably fumbles a bit on the performance side of things, we can confidently say that CrossCode is a wonderfully engaging RPG that’s more than worth your time.Īfter a deliberately confusing opening that picks up halfway through the story, the game focuses on an amnesiac girl named Lea, who’s an avatar for a fictional MMO called CrossWorlds. Luckily for us, it turns out Radical Fish Games made good on its promise, nailing the execution and delivering fans a quirky sort of RPG that hits all the right notes. An ambitious goal, to say the least, and one that approximately 2,326 backers (who collectively came up with a little over $100k) believed in enough and wanted to see being seen to completion. Called CrossCode, it promised to merge the RPG trappings and graphical style of '90s SNES RPGs with the world and puzzle design of the Zelda series. Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked)Ī little over five years ago, a new studio named Radical Fish Games unveiled its dream concept for a new game.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |