God Wars: Future Past PS4 Review – Jobs Fit For a God

<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">A few years ago&comma; Kadokawa Games released <em>Natural Doctrine<&sol;em> for the PlayStation family of systems&period; The game&comma; a strategy role-playing game&comma; was not quite the success that they had hoped for&comma; and critics and fans of the genre tended to be divided on the hardcore but linear aspects of the game&period; Once it was done&comma; Kadokawa decided to scale things back a bit&comma; and their latest work has finally been released&period;<a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;godwarsgame&period;com"><em> God Wars&colon; Future Past<&sol;em><&sol;a> is a classic strategy role-playing game&comma; with an interesting story set in ancient Japan&comma; where royalty and commoners mingle with Japanese gods and the like&period; The game is very much a straight-forward SRPG&comma; which is not necessarily a bad thing&comma; in fact&comma; it’s a much more enjoyable experience than <em>Natural Doctrine<&sol;em> was due to a simpler set up and system&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-youtube layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"500" height&equals;"281" data-videoid&equals;"gioI-3jEB9g" title&equals;"GOD WARS Future Past - Story Trailer &vert; PS4&comma; PS Vita"><a placeholder href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;gioI-3jEB9g"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;gioI-3jEB9g&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" layout&equals;"fill" object-fit&equals;"cover" alt&equals;"GOD WARS Future Past - Story Trailer &vert; PS4&comma; PS Vita"><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>God Wars&colon; Future Past<&sol;em> is set in the land of Mizuho&comma; which is essentially ancient Japan&comma; and takes place in three nations&colon; Fuji&comma; Izumo&comma; and Hyuga&period; While the people tended to live in relative peace&comma; eventually natural disasters started to take place&comma; things like floods&comma; earthquakes and such&period; The queen of the Fuji nation&comma; Tsukoyomi&comma; sacrificed her daughter Sakuya to Mount Fuji&comma; and confined her other daughter&comma; Kaguya&comma; in case another sacrifice was needed one day&period; Then&comma; Tsukoyomi disappeared&comma; and during a riot&comma; Kaguya escapes with the help of her old friend Kintaro&period; The two of them&comma; and a myriad god named Kuma set off on an adventure to find out what happened to the queen&comma; and understand what is really at work in the land of Mizuho&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The setting and the story is easily one of the best parts of the game&period; <em>God Wars&colon; Future Past<&sol;em> really sucked me in with the adventures of Kaguya and Kintaro&comma; and I was often ready to clear some more battles to get to more story&comma; to get to the meat of what was going on in the game&period; The characters are all very well written and there is a good amount of depth to many of them&comma; which helps to hook you and get you to continue on Kaguya’s quest&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;127008" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-127008" style&equals;"width&colon; 1000px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-127008 size-large" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;06&sol;26004640&sol;TEST-God-Wars-Future-Past-5-1024x576&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1000" height&equals;"563" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-127008" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">God Wars&colon; Future Past&comma; NIS America<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>The character designs are fantastic&comma; and the games overall aesthetics are completely gorgeous&period; Animated cutscenes really help to build the tone of the game&comma; and are complete eye candy&comma; but it would have been nice to have more of them&period; The soundtrack is absolutely sumptuous&comma; and many of the tracks really got their hooks into me&comma; and I found myself humming a number of them in no time at all&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>My only actual issue as far as audio and visuals go in the game was the English audio track&period; I found quite a few of the voice actors to be somewhat grating&comma; and also weird mixing issues where it was hard to hear the speech in parts of the game&period; I would often switch over to the Japanese track&comma; which in general sounded better&comma; both as far as voice actors went and as well as the mixing quality was concerned&period; Also&comma; while the character design and static artwork look fantastic&comma; the actual game itself can be somewhat plain and looks merely better than a PlayStation 3 game&period; While the game visually can be a bit of a letdown&comma; the combat most assuredly does not disappoint&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;127009" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-127009" style&equals;"width&colon; 1000px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-127009 size-large" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;06&sol;26004746&sol;32326641796&lowbar;cce7f2195f&lowbar;o-1024x576&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1000" height&equals;"563" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-127009" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">God Wars&colon; Future Past&period; NIS America<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>The combat and job system in the game are both spot-on&comma; and it’s definitely what fans of the genre were probably hoping for&period; There are about thirty jobs to choose from&comma; and characters can actually choose from 2 different jobs&comma; with a variety of skills to learn&period; Additionally&comma; each character has a unique set of skills that each one can learn&comma; which means every character that ends up in your party can be played and leveled in a variety of ways&period; It’s best not to front load your characters with just combat skills&comma; and maybe some healing&comma; as the enemies love to use status effects on your characters&period; If you aren’t prepared for the various slowdowns and such headed your way&comma; you can be in for quite a tough battle&period; The meat and potatoes of the game are it’s combat and job setup and <em>God Wars&colon; Future Past<&sol;em> delivers for SRPG fans immensely in this regard&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If you have a soft spot in your heart for strategy role-playing games&comma; like <em>Final Fantasy Tactics<&sol;em> or <em>Disgaea<&sol;em>&comma; then <em>God Wars&colon; Future Past<&sol;em> should be on your radar&period; The beautiful character design&comma; intricately designed world of ancient Japan&comma; and deep combat make for a quality addition to any fan&&num;8217&semi;s library&period; While there are some issues with the audio&comma; and sometimes maps don’t look as exciting as one would hope&comma; there is still a great amount of depth to the game and an interesting story for fans of the genre to dive into&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><strong>A Playstation 4 Review copy of God Wars&colon; Future Past was provided by NIS America for the Purpose of this Review&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;