{"id":15791,"date":"2016-12-12T00:01:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T00:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=15791"},"modified":"2016-11-15T10:53:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T10:53:02","slug":"exist-archive-the-other-side-of-the-sky-ps4-vita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/12\/exist-archive-the-other-side-of-the-sky-ps4-vita\/","title":{"rendered":"Exist Archive: The Other Side of the Sky (PS4, Vita)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"EXIST_BOX\"<\/a>A group of high schoolers from Tokyo get involved in a serious accident (a huge hole appears in a road).\u00a0 But instead of winding up dead, the bunch of teenagers ends up in a strange world full of floating islands, monstrous creatures, and a huge tower.\u00a0 Now they must fight to uncover the truth as to why they\u2019re there, and stop evil forces along the way in this anime styled RPG.\u00a0 It\u2019s available for Sony\u2019s PS4 and Vita, but reviewed on the Vita here.<\/p>\n

Like a typical RPG, you\u2019ll explore dungeons and battle monsters in turn-based style.\u00a0 There are no towns, so you\u2019ll mostly be picking quests from a menu, like a dungeon crawler.\u00a0 But there are a few tweaks that make this game somewhat unique.\u00a0 Usually in RPGs, you view the action from a top-down perspective or explore 3-D areas.\u00a0 Here, you venture through the dungeons in 2-D sidescroller fashion!\u00a0 You can move left and right as well as jump.\u00a0 Enemies appear as purple blobs, and if you can press the attack button before they get you, you\u2019ll attack first in battle.\u00a0 Otherwise, the bad guys go first.<\/p>\n

When in battle, the screen switches to an arena style view and looks more like a typical RPG.\u00a0 But even here, things are a little different.\u00a0 Each character is assigned a button, and you press them to attack.\u00a0 But each attack costs AP, so you\u2019ll have to decide who and how many times they get to fight each turn.\u00a0 When your turn is over, you can still press the buttons to make your team guard against the enemies\u2019 blows, but it\u2019s kind of hard since they all attack at once and are usually bunched up together.<\/p>\n

After winning, you\u2019ll earn experience points to level up, as well as SP that you can use to assign skills to your characters.\u00a0 You can even change classes later on in the game to learn more abilities.\u00a0 Most of the items you\u2019ll get come from defeating enemies, too.\u00a0 In fact, there are ways to increase the amount of items the enemies drop as well.\u00a0 You can revisit old dungeons to take on tons of sidequests, and even view how much the other party members like you.\u00a0 Connect online to do speed runs of dungeons and get more items as well.\u00a0 The graphics are gorgeous and I like the subtle differences they used to make this game unique.\u00a0 But the game starts off pretty slow and didn\u2019t really draw me in.\u00a0 But that doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s a bad game.\u00a0 If you enjoy anime and can\u2019t get enough RPGs, you should check this one out anyway.<\/p>\n

\"EXIST_SCREEN\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Exist Archive is rated T for Teen with ESRB descriptors of Blood, Fantasy Violence, Language, and Suggestive Themes.\u00a0 You can smack around enemies with swords, guns, and other weapons and magic, but they just disappear when defeated.\u00a0 There are plenty of anime cutscenese with blood, though.\u00a0 Characters do curse sometimes, and suggestive themes are mostly implied in text only.\u00a0 Even so, the game is probably best enjoyed by teens and older players who enjoy mature anime anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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