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Spiritually Successful
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 11/30/2024
“Unicorn Overlord” is the latest High Fantasy effort to come out of Japanese Indie studio, Vanillaware, following on the successful releases of titles such as the PlayStation exclusive “Dragon’s Crown” and “Odin Sphere.” However, in the years since Vanillaware got its start as a niche developer of niche PlayStation exclusives, the entire concept of ‘PlayStation exclusives’ – and, indeed, exclusives in general – has become a bitter pill to swallow, limiting a given game’s potential audience and relegating titles to a limbo state of planned obsolescence, with Sony deigning to order up remasters (or re-remasters) from underlings at its whim.
Instead, starting with their previous game, “13 Sentinels,” Vanillaware has become a bit more proactive, releasing that …
