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On 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, Vanillaware flexes some serious storytelling chops to go along with its visual flair.
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Matt Kim
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The doomsday clock is ticking. Become a Sentinel pilot, customize your mech, and fight waves of kaiju in top-down tactical combat in 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, a sci-fi mystery epic from developer Vanillaware spanning thirteen intertwining stories.
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SquidKellBeat
Recommended
7
An interesting game with great characters sorely suffering from lack of an editor to fix the story bloat and pacing issues
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irwinjonBeat
Recommended
8
It's extremely complicated
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Games_VYPBeat
Recommended
10
Creative, immersive, fun, everything in this game is absolutely perfect, although it isn't for everyone because the combat and the way the story is told is very peculiar.
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soraBeat
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9
Originally released on PS4 in 2020, 13 Sentinels is a game that I had never heard of until it was brought to the Switch two years later. Now that it has been out on the Switch for over a year, I still feel that this game has not gotten nearly as much attention as it deserves.
First of all, the game is beautiful. The hand-drawn art, the interweaving narratives, the animations. It is simply stunning to look at, feeling incredibly cozy and nostalgic with it’s relaxed color palette. 13 Sentinels plays like a visual novel (set primarily in Showa period Japan with some sci-fi elements) merged with a real-time strategy tower defense RPG, where you can decide when you want to engage in the storylines and when you want to progress in the combat. You do however need to do both to advance the story, so you will get progression locked at some point if you completely neglect one for the other.
In the story segments, you follow multiple protagonists through an unexpected, interweaving adventure. Each chapter is very well paced and varies widely in tone between characters. Some are more mysterious, others more cozy. I was particularly surprised by how much I enjoyed the mech battle segments, which I had pretty low expectations for. But the strategy elements were varied and addicting to master.
Now that you’ve reached this point of the review, I hope that I have convinced you to at least look up a trailer of this unique game. It feels completely at home on the Switch, so I can 100% recommend that port to Switch owners. Once you have played the game, then continue to read, because I want to get into vague spoilers for the ending right now, just to get them off my chest. I won’t discuss any specifics, but I believe that this game is probably best experience completely fresh and with no expectations.
Also, I absolutely adore Tsukasa Okino. That is all.
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On 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, Vanillaware flexes some serious storytelling chops to go along with its visual flair.
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