Sea of Stars

Blows a fresh breeze through an old genre.

GAMES PRICE $50.95 PLATFORM PC, PS4/5, XB1/S/X, Switch WEB seaofstarsgame.co Sea of Stars is another indie RPG built in Chrono Trigger’s image. There’s the seamless battle transition, there’s the techs, sorry – combos, there’s the Yasunori Mitsuda soundtrack. Been there, done that, got the time-travelling T-shirt. What separates Sea of Stars from the ever-increasing pile of RPGs that think they can recapture the spirit of the ’90s is that it understands the difference between ‘inspired by’ and ‘mindlessly copying something’”. The most obvious way it draws a line between itself and the past is through its extremely – almost excessively – well-animated world. Anything that can sway in an unseen breeze does so, and every every mundane NPC or minor story event I came across seemed to have some unique…

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APC (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2023

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