Through how often it invokes the likenesses and nostalgia of its ancestors, it wants you to think fondly on them, because without that legacy, it falls flat. Re-using the battle system of games-gone-by just reminds me of how excellent those games were, and put up against the greats, Setsuna cannot overcome its own shadow.īut I Am Setsuna does not want to overcome or overshadow. Like my Sundays in church, after years of growing up and hearing them over and over, I Am Setsuna is the recurring liturgy of the classic JRPG.Ī silent protagonist does little to endear me to the character, nor does it create a good player-insert. The narrative moves, and at times even engages, but rarely offers anything fresh or exciting. Your party is predictable as well: a grizzled samurai with a hard past, a child prodigy mage with a fatal flaw, a ruler struggling to reclaim her people’s land. Yes, it’s a plotline mimicking Final Fantasy X, with a dash of other RPGs thrown in for flavor. No matter what your character chooses, you offer your sword to Setsuna and accompany her, travelling across the continent to gather a party and get to the ancient kingdom. Endir (the default name for your hero) is sent to kill Setsuna, the eponymous heroine who is about to leave on a pilgrimage for the Last Lands, in order to sacrifice herself to stave off monster attacks on the land’s people for a few more years. You are a silent, masked protagonist who somehow earns the trust and friendship of every person he meets. The story is rather underwhelming for the most part. It’s hard to draw the line between loving reference and plagiarism at times in this game.
There are even attacks wholly lifted from the game, like X-Strike. The battle system itself is a carbon-copy of Chrono Trigger’s, with an added timed-button-press component to make it feel like an evolution, rather than a replication. Setsuna is immediately reminiscent of any RPG from the SNES era, with systems and mechanics that feel lifted directly from those games. Made by Tokyo RPG Factory, a new Square Enix studio formed to create games that hearken back to the Good Ol’ Days, its creators have been happy to list classics like Chrono Trigger as influences for this new game. I Am Setsuna is a role-playing game, one styled after the kind I would have been playing in those early years. As I grew up, I could recite them by memory, like I could the hymns and liturgy-and it wore on me. There’s always a Christmas season, Advent and Lent. Not the sermon itself, necessarily, but the readings and teachings. It was filled with friends, other families and people I’d grown up around, and I always enjoyed it for a time.īut there’s something interesting about Episcopalian sermons: they operate on a cycle.
A nice Episcopalian church, which if you’ve never heard of it, is often described as Catholic Light. When I was younger and more devout, my family attended church every Sunday.
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