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Misty-eyed fans of Japanese RPGs from the early 90s will be in their element.
The game borrows from western RPGs, from Baldur's Gate to Fallout 4, in letting players enter "wait mode" to enter more complex commands, and while the choice of four weapon styles and four magic types bound to Noctis at any one time means that even in real-time, there's a good variety of options available.
But while I loved RPGs from a young age, characters who looked like me didn't exist.
The Legend of Zelda series would continue to exert an influence on the transition of both console and computer RPGs from stat-heavy turn-based combat towards real-time action combat in the following decades.
The shells no longer reach the city centre and life is seemingly going on as usual there, but from sushi bars and the Ramada hotel you can still hear mortars and RPGs from the frontline.
Though arguably making romance and eroticism important components of the game was a step forward, today The Masquerade seems outdated when viewed through the lens of today's sex-positive, LGBT-inclusive, and feminist values as do most RPGs from earlier eras.
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