{"id":25839,"date":"2025-06-18T00:01:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T00:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=25839"},"modified":"2025-06-14T13:56:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T13:56:21","slug":"starlight-legacy-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/18\/starlight-legacy-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Starlight Legacy (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X\/S, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Back when I was a teen during the 16-bit days, I loved RPGs.\u00a0 And with games like Final Fantasy 6 and Chrono Trigger, who could blame me?\u00a0 I just couldn\u2019t get enough of them.\u00a0 Nowadays I\u2019m not really into modern RPGs, but I\u2019ll take notice anytime someone makes a throwback 16-bit style RPG.\u00a0 Such is the case with Starlight Legacy.\u00a0 As the story goes, many years ago a kingdom was at war and the sky people were forbidden to use magic after it was over.\u00a0 But many years have passed and the sky people think that they should use magic again, so a separatist group sets out to attack the life giving Eternal Tree.\u00a0 But are the separatists taking things too far, and is the king really doing the right thing by continuing to uphold that anti magic law?\u00a0 That\u2019s what you and two other warriors will find out in this 16-bit styled RPG adventure.\u00a0 It\u2019s available on all current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

The game is your typical turn based RPG fare.\u00a0 You\u2019ll gather clues and items in towns, as well as buy weapons and magic spells.\u00a0 Then you\u2019ll venture off into roads, caves, and dungeons and fight monsters in random encounters.\u00a0 The world map is actually styled more like a Pok\u00e9mon game, with routes, or roads connecting the towns and caves and dungeons together.\u00a0 I do like that you can save at any time, but if you fall in battle you\u2019ll start over at the last inn you slept in, so that\u2019s a little weird.\u00a0 I also wish the game included other modern RPG features, like a journal to tell you where to go next if you forget after not playing for a while.\u00a0 The game\u2019s not bad, but it is decidedly average.\u00a0 Not near as good as Final Fantasy 6 or 4 or even Lufia 2.\u00a0 It reminds me most of Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, except this one is harder and lacks that rocking soundtrack.\u00a0 But it definitely would\u2019ve been something I would\u2019ve rented back in the day.<\/p>\n

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

Starlight Legacy is rated E-10 with ESRB descriptors of Alcohol Reference and Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 You can visit pubs in the game and you can swing weapons and fire magic at enemies, but defeated characters either just disappear or fall over when defeated.\u00a0 Reading skill is a must with all the text.\u00a0 I played games like this all the time as a kid and I turned out OK, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back when I was a teen during the 16-bit days, I loved RPGs.\u00a0 And with games like Final Fantasy 6 and Chrono Trigger, who could blame me?\u00a0 I just couldn\u2019t get enough of them.\u00a0 Nowadays I\u2019m not really into modern RPGs, but I\u2019ll take notice anytime someone makes a throwback 16-bit style RPG.\u00a0 Such is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25840,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25839\/revisions\/25840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}