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Nelson Schneider
Nelson Schneider
Epic Reviewer

Rating of
3.5/5

Significantly Better

Nelson Schneider - wrote on 02/18/2017

Back in those long-forgotten days of yore when a much younger me daydreamed about a collaboration between Squaresoft and Enix to create an RPG called ‘Dragon Fantasy’ for the SNES, we were faced with some unpleasant truths. The first of these truths was that 8-bit games that are a first attempt at a new intellectual property usually suck. The other side of the coin, however, holds the truth that franchises that started in the 8-bit era generally managed to blossom into something spectacular by the 16-bit era (though there were always exceptions).

The Muteki Corporation seems to either consciously or unconsciously embraced these truths, for after a rather dismal start with “Dragon Fantasy Book I” (a.k.a., “The Volumes of Westeria”), the follow-up, “Dragon Fantasy Book …

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