The best way to describe this game is that it’s Pokémon with a potty mouth.  The Edge of Allegoria is an old school styled RPG with a green and white color palette similar to the Game Boy.  It has some similarities to Pokémon, too.  You don’t train and fight monsters, but the battle screen and the map are very similar to that series.  In the game you play as a generic person who goes out to make something of themselves.  You come to a town with a goblin problem, and beat up the leader in a dungeon, only to have other goblins come and demolish your house.  Then a fairy comes to tell you that the world is not in balance anymore after you fight her.  And in typical RPG fashion, you just go on from there, visiting towns for clues and items and fighting monsters on route to dungeons.  Only other thing that sets this game apart from others is that it uses more curse words in the text than any other video game I’ve ever seen!  It’s available on Switch and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.

Again, this is your typical RPG with towns to visit to gather clues and items.  Then you go out into the wilds and fight monsters in random encounters through turn based battles.  Find dungeons to beat up bosses and start the process over again.  The map is set up very similarly to how they are in Pokémon games.  One neat thing is that early on, your dog will be able to take you to any place you’ve already visited instantly, and will drag you back to town if you lose in a battle.  A very good boy indeed!

One unique thing about this game is that you can equip weapons and learn skills from them as you level up.  But you must be careful because if you fall in battle before fully learning a weapon’s skill, it’ll reset and you’ll have to start all over again.  You also can only know a few skills at a time, so choose what you want to have in battle wisely.  The rest of the game itself is all right, it just doesn’t do anything that really grabbed me and made me want to keep playing.  Plus it’s a bit grindy.  And the constant cursing in the text gets old pretty quickly.

Kid Factor:

The Edge of Allegoria is rated M for Mature with ESRB descriptors of Crude Humor, Partial Nudity, Suggestive Themes, and Use of Drugs.  Not to mention alcohol use and strong language!  Most of it is in the text only, although some female monsters don’t wear any clothes and you can see their pixel boobs.  There are some innuendos in the text that I’d rather not go to in detail as I’m a bit embarrassed to repeat them.  Items include alcohol and other adult things.  And yeah, the game doesn’t bat an eye at using the F-bomb at every corner, even if it’s just in text.  So yeah, this one’s best for adult gamers only.

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