A recent Switch port reminds us of how amazing 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim is. Few works in any medium can match the scope and quality of its narrative, and its overlapping structure is something only games can do.
it was to talk or write about the game back in January of 2021—“any individual story point, could, in theory, be a spoiler”—which led me to realize thatIt’s a tremendously written title, which it would have to be as something of a visual novel/adventure game. You’ll find yourself thinking, often, that you’ve pieced things together, but only until another wrinkle is revealed, which leaves you marveling at the layers of narrative on display here.
You don’t play all of a character’s arc at once: there are little walls in place to stop you and force you elsewhere in another character’s story, or push you to play some Destruction stages to further unveil what’s happening in that moment in time, so while you can generally select the order you play stories in, individual ones can’t go past certain points until you’ve also seen connected, alternate perspectives and concurrent events.
At first the battles and the more obvious story parts seem a little disparate, but as the game continues and the what of it all starts to make sense—or, at least, to take shape—the battles take on their own excitement that adds to what you’re seeing and doing in the other side of the game.
Plenty of games do multiple genres at once like this, with separated playable sections that feed into the other. Rarely, though, are both genres done well, never mind exceptionally—think of how often you’ve read a review of something like this that has some kind of “[genre two] just kind of drags” or “I wish it were more of the former and less of the latter” comment in it.
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