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Sunrider: Mark of Arcadius (VN-hybrid game review)


Plk_Lesiak

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Sunrider: Mask of Arcadius is one of the best-known and probably most appreciated western visual novels. Developed by Love in Space and published for free by Sekai Project in July 2014, it was downloaded on Steam by around 600 thousand players and spawned a successful franchise, with its commercial sequel, Liberation Day and dating sim spin-off, Sunrider Academy, both reaching impressive sale numbers and mostly positive feedback from the community.

            What’s interesting, Mask of Arcadius is also a hybrid title, possibly more ambitious and refined with its strategy game elements than “pure” visual novel segments. Most likely, it is exactly that part of the game that gave it a much broader appeal than that of typical VNs and made its spectacular success on Steam possible. Does it, however, still have a similar entertainment value for dedicated VN readers, on a much more saturated, diverse market, as it had in 2014?

Read the full review at evnchronicles.blogspot.com

 

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2 minutes ago, Ranzo said:

This was a good review maybe I should play one of the Sunrider games at some point. It sounds like you are hungering for some Galaxy Angel though.:maple:

Thank you! :) Yeah, I think it's mostly my laziness preventing me from playing Galaxy Angel already, I never used fan translations and it seems like a bother to set things up for it when I already have 2-3 dozens of VNs ready to play on my PC. :P

But I really don't understand why the whole series isn't licensed yet, I think it would sell like hotcakes on Steam. :huh:

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7 minutes ago, Plk_Lesiak said:

Thank you! :) Yeah, I think it's mostly my laziness preventing me from playing Galaxy Angel already, I never used fan translations and it seems like a bother to set things up for it when I already have 2-3 dozens of VNs ready to play on my PC. :P

But I really don't understand why the whole series isn't licensed yet, I think it would sell like hotcakes on Steam. :huh:

Well I know there is a torrent drifting around with the patch already in it. The problem would be getting the first to actually work on your pc.

I think the possible reason why is that it's a Broccoli game and they backed out of the foreign market years ago. But yeah I really wish some company would at least try and license it.

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