![]() Overcome battles by switching seamlessly between jobs during combat – including the Fighter, adept with swift sword techniques, the Shadow Walker, which deals critical wounds with twin blades, or the Mage, specialising in magic attacks. Reach a deeper mutual understanding by facing their worries and their way of life head on. Cooperate with – and sometimes clash with – your allies, including these characters among others. And Aria, a mysterious girl who claims to have come from the future. Heine, a pompous gentleman mechanic.Asyl, descendent of the Wind poem people. Shrika, a missionary searching for a new form of faith. If you use the produce you’ve grown in your cooking, the food will grant extremely helpful effects for your adventures, such as HP recovery or temporary stat boosts! It might also be a good idea to take care of some plump cluffowl birds, dignified goat-like woolum, and a pet totokaku. Grow fruit, vegetables and crops in your fields to either sell or use as crafting materials. You will have to traverse beautiful, treacherous paths to reach the Seaslights – four giant crystals that govern the seasons. Use the world map to travel to all these settlements and their respective dungeons. The Holy Capital of Argene, cloaked in snow. Lethe Village, resplendent in the vibrant colours of the four seasons. Shatolla, a seaside town home to a bustling tavern. Nemea Town, where cherry trees bloom all year round. And each year, Quietus persists for longer and longer… People cannot even walk around outside, due to the dust of death that fills the air. The season of death that visits with the changing of the seasons. You don’t have to be a Sailor Moon or Shakespeare lover to enjoy it, but it will certainly help if you are at least one of the two. Overall, it’s no masterpiece, but the game succeeds at being what it wants to be - a bite-sized RPG that you can play and enjoy in small doses. However, the combat is excellent and demanding, and the pixel art does a lot of cool and impressive things (including full magical girl transformation cinematics). It doesn’t all fit together perfectly, and the story is simultaneously imaginative but also frivolous and insubstantial. This Way Madness Lies is the quirky, messy, quality RPG that could only be born in the indie scene. The Review Verdict on This Way Madness Lies The girls use magical powers they’ve obtained to extinguish the monsters, solve problems for characters in these alternate realities, and shut the gateways between worlds. But at the same time, gateways starts opening to alternate realities that take place in the actual worlds of Shakespeare plays - and those realities are full of monsters for some reason. Six (eventually seven) Shakespeare-loving girls compose the Stratford-Upon-Avon High Drama Society at their school, where they put on different plays across the course of the school year. This Way Madness Lies doesn’t so much have a story as it does a series of linear, disconnected events that justify getting into lots of fights. It takes a fun but bizarre premise, sprinkles on most of the gameplay mechanics from prior game Cosmic Star Heroine, and results in a pretty solid appetizer RPG to supplement your other gaming. ![]() Have you ever wondered what it would be like if an RPG combined Sailor Moon magical girls with the collective works of William Shakespeare? Of course not, but indie developer Zeboyd Games fortunately did, and so we have This Way Madness Lies for review on PC. The Escapist checked out the upcoming RPG This Way Madness Lies: This Way Madness Lies Review: A Sailor Moon-Like RPG with Deep Combat
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