I preordered this game in October but held off on playing it because I had to get through Breath of the Wild, and then Age of Calamity first but I finally cleared out those games and in less than a week had plantinumed 13 Sentinels.
The way it just throws the audience into the story having faith in the fact that they will be able to pick up the story despite it being given in a non-linear format where you have to play all 13 characters to get the entire story. The revelations about what happened to humanity, what it means to be human, and how we treat each other is some top notch stuff. Most games ask if you place a brain in a robot's body is it still human while 13 Sentinels Aegis Rim ask you "Are you still human if you died, but you dont know you died because you got replaced by an ai with your simulated personality" and then the game decides that yeah thats a person.
When you think that you found a weak part of the story there is always some revelation that changes how you view the characters involved in the story and the story itself. There's a part of the game where the character Megumi meets a talking cat called Fluffy who is quite obviously evil, is rude to her, and makes a contract with her that involves her shooting "witches" so he could restore the memories of another character who she spent some time with her. Then the game reveals who Fluffy really is and then you remember that character's past from playing Juro's portion and it makes perfect sense why Fluffy is acting like that with Megumi.
Its a mystery box that actually has interesting answers because its perfectly fine with doing completely out their ideas like the Imperial Japanese soldier who loves Yakisoba Pan and doesnt quite understand that his gay or the character who has an idol talking to him through his tv. In the Force Awakens you dont really care about who Snoke is because there is no answer that could satisfy the majority of the audience but who Miyuki Inaba is has an actual interesting answer that delves into the game's question about what makes someone human.
Above all us this game has one thing that most video games lack and that a talking cat whose here to save the world
The way it just throws the audience into the story having faith in the fact that they will be able to pick up the story despite it being given in a non-linear format where you have to play all 13 characters to get the entire story. The revelations about what happened to humanity, what it means to be human, and how we treat each other is some top notch stuff. Most games ask if you place a brain in a robot's body is it still human while 13 Sentinels Aegis Rim ask you "Are you still human if you died, but you dont know you died because you got replaced by an ai with your simulated personality" and then the game decides that yeah thats a person.
When you think that you found a weak part of the story there is always some revelation that changes how you view the characters involved in the story and the story itself. There's a part of the game where the character Megumi meets a talking cat called Fluffy who is quite obviously evil, is rude to her, and makes a contract with her that involves her shooting "witches" so he could restore the memories of another character who she spent some time with her. Then the game reveals who Fluffy really is and then you remember that character's past from playing Juro's portion and it makes perfect sense why Fluffy is acting like that with Megumi.
Its a mystery box that actually has interesting answers because its perfectly fine with doing completely out their ideas like the Imperial Japanese soldier who loves Yakisoba Pan and doesnt quite understand that his gay or the character who has an idol talking to him through his tv. In the Force Awakens you dont really care about who Snoke is because there is no answer that could satisfy the majority of the audience but who Miyuki Inaba is has an actual interesting answer that delves into the game's question about what makes someone human.
Above all us this game has one thing that most video games lack and that a talking cat whose here to save the world
