Stranger of Sword City
- June 6, 2016
- Experience Inc.
Stranger of Sword City comes as fresh dungeon RPG with a captivating story and challenging labyrinths that will get you hooked from the start. Although not perfect, it offers a highly recommended experience.
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Get on Xbox Games Store"Stranger of Sword City" is a first-person dungeon crawler RPG set in a mysterious realm known as Escario, where the player must assume the role of a "Stranger" with the power to kill beings from another dimension. The game features challenging battles, various character classes, and a unique "Lifepoint" system that makes combat more strategic. Players must navigate treacherous dungeons, defeat powerful monsters, and make choices that affect the story's outcome.
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Reviews
- gameplay5 mentions
- 40 % positive mentions
- 60 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
- graphics4 mentions
- 75 % positive mentions
- 25 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
- story4 mentions
- 25 % positive mentions
- 75 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
- music2 mentions
- 100 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
- grinding1 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
- atmosphere1 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 100 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
- replayability1 mentions
- 100 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
Critic Reviews
Stranger of Sword City Review
Stranger of Sword City is an extremely solid dungeon crawling RPG. Fans of the genre will likely lap this straight up due to a lack of options on Xbox One. However, whether it deserves a place up with the genre leaders such as Etrian Odyssey is open for debate. Newcomers will still find plenty to appeal to them even if at times the game does sometimes come across as a little inaccessible in spite of its attempts to make things easier. You'll need to make a serious time investment if you want to get to grips with all it has to offer.
70%Everything's strange when you're a Stranger: Stranger of Sword City review
Stranger of Sword City mixes the old-school gameplay of classic RPGs with modern aesthetics and story. It adds a few new mechanics that differentiates it from other RPGs you’d find on any system, whether home or portable. If you are looking for a challenging RPG that gives you plenty of options, then give Stranger of Sword City a good look.
80%Stranger of Sword City Review
The few good bits of Stranger of Sword City, like its immersive atmosphere and beautiful 2D art, amongst others, get drowned in a sea of problems. Besides the typical shoddy work that accompanies most console-to-PC ports (lame UI and controls), this dungeon crawler has a disappointingly unimpressive plot for its, otherwise, great setting, a very slow pace due to a heavy emphasis in grinding, and a very bad use of a permadeath system of sorts, with hours of work lost just because "a wild wyvern appeared!" and one-shot a few worthless heroes.
40%
