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Looks Like ‘Chrono Trigger,’ Plays Like a Disaster
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 04/05/2013
“Black Sigil: Blade of the Exiled” (“Black Sigil”) is the one and only game ever developed by Studio Archcraft, a team in which most of the work was done by three people. What initially caught my eye about “Black Sigil” way back in 2008/2009 was an initial screenshot that showed a game that looked exactly like that classic RPG of the 16-bit era, “Chrono Trigger.” With such a tiny development team and old-school aesthetic, “Black Sigil” seems like it would be the archetypal Indie game: Developed for PC or some other digital distribution platform and sold for $10 or so. Yet that is not the case. “Black Sigil” was published for the Nintendo DS by Graffiti Entertainment and sold at the standard DS retail price. I bought my copy of “Black Sigil” back in 2009, yet …
