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BLAND Land or Toriyama’s Swan Song
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 08/10/2024
“Sand Land” was a random surprise release that had no hype surrounding it, at least that I was aware of. One day, I was completely oblivious to the game’s existence, the next I had watched the trailer on Steam and added it to my wish list based on the presence of customizable mechs in an open word game.
Had I done more research, however, I would have learned one thing about “Sand Land” that would have made me far less willing to jump on board at closer-to-full-price than usual: It’s a Licensed game. I knew Akira Toriyama, the late manga-ka whose iconic creature designs have been a mainstay of the ‘Dragon Quest’ series since the beginning, was one of the driving forces behind the game, but I had no idea that the game was based on a manga AND anime by Toriyama. …
