PlayStation Store, NEO: The World Ends With You and The Great Ace Attorney
PlayStation Store, NEO
PlayStation Store was the protagonist this week of an unusually full-bodied update for the period, full of releases of great interest. Starting with NEO: The World Ends With You, a direct sequel to the RPG released on Nintendo 3DS several years ago, which takes us back to the streets of Shibuya hunting for demons.The Great Ace Attorney is also available Chronicles, the remastered collection of the two "classic" chapters of the Capcom series, never released outside Japan, and the various Samurai Warriors 5, Tribes of Midgard, Night Book, The Forgotten City, Omno and the all-Italian surprise Eldest Souls.
NEO: The World Ends With You
NEO: The World Ends with You, two of the game's protagonists. Fourteen years after the debut of the series, NEO: The World Ends With You (PS4, € 59.99) takes us back to the streets of Shibuya, the famous district of Tokyo, asking us to participate in the Game of Demons: a dangerous challenge in which we will have to identify and eliminate the monsters that hide among people, moving in a parallel plane of reality.Characterized by a beautiful cel shaded graphics and the indisputable charm of a setting full of things to see and do, the Square Enix title boasts a truly remarkable style, an excellent soundtrack and an engaging and immediate gameplay, although the combat system is tainted by some limitations. NEO: The World Ends With You review.
The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles
Capcom's investigative visual novel returns to the west with The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles (PS4, 39.99 €), a remastered collection that includes two episodes never released here, those starring the young lawyer Ryunosuke Naruhodo and set in the Japanese Meiji period, at the end of the nineteenth century.The historical location of the games obviously influences the plot and the mechanics compared to the contemporary chapters of Ace Attorney, but there is no lack of characters of great depth (see for example the investigator Herlock Sholmes), interesting solutions such as the news of the Dance of Deduction and several twists. We talked about it extensively in The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles review.
Samurai Warriors 5
Samurai Warriors 5, a spectacular combat sequence. Another great return, Samurai Warriors 5 (PS4, € 69.99) takes up the traditional formula of musou to project us into the greatest battles of the young Nobunaga Oda and Mitsuhide Akechi, protagonists of the long, double campaign of the game, which we will be able to face in solitary or in cooperative mode even locally.Net of some small news on the front of the repertoire of moves available to the characters, the game does not differ from the previous episodes in terms of gameplay and structure, asking us about time in turn to free the map from enemy soldiers by performing spectacular combos that can however quickly become repetitive, as explained in the Samurai Warriors 5 review.
The Forgotten City
The Forgotten City will see us face dangerous undead. The Forgotten City (PS5 and PS4, € 29.99) has a very particular story behind it, given that the game was born as a simple mod of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim but was so successful that it allowed the development team to transform it into a stand alone product, which in this case is available not only on PC but also on consoles.Projected into antiquity, grappling with a Roman outpost hidden in the depths of the Earth, we will have to deal with the its inhabitants and its mysterious rules, the violation of which could trigger a terrible prophecy. Fascinating narrative implications, which contribute to creating a great atmosphere for a project made by only three people. The Forgotten City review.
Eldest Souls
Eldest Souls, one of the game's challenging boss fights. What happens when two peculiar subgenres like soulslike and boss rushes are combined together? This is revealed to us by Eldest Souls (PS5 and PS4, € 19.99), the new game developed by the Fallen Flag Studio team, which puts us in command of a skilled warrior in charge of wielding a legendary sword and using it to kill all the gods. Will it be an undertaking within our reach?To find out, all we have to do is venture into the dark scenarios of this combat-based adventure, challenge ten different bosses and their numerous minions, while trying to use the points and fragments collected to improve our skills for the next duel. Does the idea fascinate you? Then check out the Eldest Souls review.
The other releases
Tribes of Midgard, the official artwork. Tribes of Midgard (PS5 and PS4, € 19.99) draws heavily on Norse mythology to engage us in an adventure full of monsters, giants and valiant warriors who fight to avoid the advent of Ragnarok, all in the context of an action RPG experience enriched with numerous survival aspects and an important multiplayer component.Night Book (PS4, € 12.99 with 10% discount for PlayStation Plus subscribers) is instead a fascinating thriller interactive in which we will have to face the consequences of a real demonic evocation, making decisions that will influence the course of events and that will produce different possible endings. What will ours be?
Omno (PS4, € 17.99) is finally a comic-style adventure, a real journey in which we will be able to discover the secrets of an ancient world and solve its riddles in an attempt to finally reach their destination. Definitely an interesting project, as we wrote in the Omno review.
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