SAND LAND REVIEW pt 2
cutscenes. Sandland has some pretty cool action sequences. There’s also a generous amount of storydriven scenes that were heavy on the text. Everything is done using the game’s main engine and did a fine job of moving the story along and breaking up the action. World building. Aside from your standard traveling merchant and towns with NPCs, there really wasn’t a lot going on to make the game’s world feel lived in. The theme of water as a precious commodity is reused throughout the game and serves as its primary way of resting and restoring bezabub’s health. Bounty hunts make an appearance in Sandland as well and reminded me a lot of hunts from Final Fantasy 12. Overall storyland is based off the Akira Toriyama manga of the same name. It’s a simple tale that has our cast of characters set out in the desert in search of water. While seemingly not that original on paper, it’s the adventures they have along the way and the characters they meet that leaves a lasting impression. The problem with the game’s version of the story is that it goes well beyond where the manga concludes and ends up feeling very diluted and kind of pathetic. The plot was incredibly dull and repetitive for almost half the game. If it wasn’t so damn much fun to play, I would have just quit. There was an unreal amount of dialogue sequences that seemed to serve a meaningless plot. It just felt pointless.
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