This JRPG platformer's amateurish art hides one of 2022's best and wildest sleeper hits

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This JRPG platformer's amateurish art hides one of 2022's best and wildest sleeper hits
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Astlibra Revision looks bizarre, but when you play it, you'll see why it's become a huge hit on Steam.

Under the strangely sourced sprites, Astlibra is a tribute to a largely forgotten breed of platform RPG. While modern metroidvanias are similar in some regards, Astlibra feels more like a throwback to the late '80s and early '90s, when the Japanese PC games industry was booming and studios like Falcom ruled with games like. A hero with sword and shield standing atop a chunky status bar, exploring a side-scrolling world of peril and adventure.

The soundtrack also channels Falcom in the best way. Anyone familiar with the Ys series knows just how incredibly high-energy their music is, awash with. Astlibra’s enormous soundtrack draws on dozens of sources, and even if the genre and style changes with whiplash-inducing frequency, it always matches the tone of the scene from orchestral grandeur to cartoon whimsy. Perhaps it speaks to Keizo’s skill as a DJ, but somehowperfectly fits a high stakes bullet hell boss battle.

The dozens of hours of combat are sustained by a similarly complex, continually expanding web of interlocking progression systems. Much of your power comes from a sprawling stat upgrade grid fueled by gems dropped from monsters. Defeating monsters provides crafting parts and recipes, which lead to new gear. Use equipment enough and it gains new powers, or provides magic gems that let you take those powers to use independently of gear.

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