Reynatis Overview (PS5) | Push Sq.

Reynatis is an motion RPG set within the vibrant ward of Shibuya, Tokyo, however it’s a really totally different place to the one we all know. On this model, magic is actual, very harmful, and feared by the non-magical inhabitants. Magic customers both conceal their skills or be part of a authorities organisation referred to as M.E.A. to seek out rogue witches and wizards.

The story follows two units of characters, the primary led by Sari, a member of the M.E.A. making an attempt to trace down the source of an addictive drug which may flip its customers into monsters; and the second led by Marin, a rogue wizard who desires to turn out to be stronger and free himself from authorities oppression. The chapters alternate between them till their tales ultimately intertwine. There’s some actually attention-grabbing world-building occurring right here, however sadly the gameplay is pretty bland.

You spend your time operating backwards and forwards throughout Shibuya, sometimes delving into dungeons and battling something that crosses your path. Your characters have two stances, Liberated and Suppressed. Whereas Liberated, you possibly can assault utilizing your magic however can’t defend as nicely. When you run out of magic you routinely swap to a Suppressed stance, the place you possibly can dodge assaults and soak up magic. You possibly can swap between characters and, as they’ve totally different weapon varieties, they really feel totally different to manage. In battle you’ll be consistently altering between characters and stances to be able to handle your magic ranges.

Whereas the fight initially appears fairly flashy and enjoyable, it doesn’t actually evolve at any level and shortly turns into uninteresting. It doesn’t assist that a lot of the enemies you struggle are colour-swapped variations of stuff you’ve battled earlier than, and the identical dungeon designs are used again and again.

There are many aspect quests, however most don’t actually add something to the story. They do have an attention-grabbing influence on Shibuya, although. Ending them reduces the world’s ‘malice’; the decrease that is the extra magical graffiti, referred to as Whizart, seems throughout city. Discovering them provides you new fight skills or grants you extra money and expertise. In addition they make the already lovely Shibuya look even cooler, however do sadly disappear when you view them.

The story and world-building are undoubtedly probably the most attention-grabbing issues about Reynatis however it’s a disgrace every thing else feels so half-baked and repetitive. It’s onerous to get invested within the characters when the uninteresting fight makes you wish to get by way of the journey as shortly as attainable.