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Mousing over the weapons themselves provides even more. How can I ignore that straight a recommendation?Ĭrikey, that’s a lot of information. The Standard level of difficulty is ‘the way Sunrider is meant to be played’.

There is a ‘visual novel’ level of difficulty that apparently trivializes the combat, but come on. I was half-expecting the combat to be a time-wasting minigame, a la Flower Shop’s farming, but it’s looking like I may have been wrong in that assumption. The fact that Sunrider even has these options is already intriguing enough to me, but a cursory glance at them shows that this game is actually expecting me to take its combat seriously. Mostly related to battle difficulty settings. On the other hand, Sunrider has ‘Combat’ options. It’s the exact same framework Sakura Spirit and Flower Shop used. On the one hand, the ‘Visual Novel’ set of options is literally exactly what I’ve come to expect the last two week: text speed, skipping options, ‘auto forward speed’, whatever the hell that still means. Sunrider’s strange dichotomy continues in its Options screens. Accompanied by a woman’s voice singing what I assume to be Japanese lyrics and bombastic musical overtones, I’m bombarded with… Sunrider: Mask of Arcadius (‘Sunrider’ from here on out) opens with the most anime intro I’ve seen maybe all year. ( Spoiler levels: Narrative, low to medium.

#Sunrider mask of arcadius wikipedia free

Oh, and it’s also entirely free on Steam.Ī free visual novel, made by the same guys who made an expensive visual novel I disliked? But which is also a turn-based tactics game? Compute, this does not. Seriously, a significant number of the Steam screenshots for it are taken up by hex grids in space and exploding star cruisers. But then it also seems to promise tactical turn-based battle gameplay featuring spaceships and giant robots. It confused me, because… it seems to have all the trappings of a visual novel game, what with the talking heads and the dialogue flow controls and the many multi-coloured anime ladies. While thus trawling the possibility space, I ran across a game called Sunrider: Mask of Arcadius.

Were they all going to be glorified cutscenes with half-naked fox girls? Sakura Spirit made such an… impression on me, I just had to see what other games this studio has under their wing. Hot on the heels of last week’s adventures into linear storytelling and boobs, I found myself browsing Sekai Project‘s website for games.