Ce JRPG familial entrelace les périples d'une jeune fille à la recherche de son père et d'un roi en quête de rédemption. Enlevée par un sorcier maléfique et emportée dans un autre monde, la fillette s'associe à son jouet elfe ranimé pour apaiser des chiens aboyeurs, changer la vision d'un souverain et affronter des émotions brutes au cœur du fantastique. Le roi Nicholas Westergaard règne sur des terres humaines déchirées par une guerre contre les étrangers et une révolte intérieure, avant de découvrir son rôle dans ces deux crises.
L'exploration s'appuie sur des indices et la logique, sans cartes, quêtes secondaires ni combats aléatoires. Le doublage donne vie à la fillette et à ses ennemis, tandis que les autres personnages stimulent la lecture et l'imagination. Les fans hardcore de RPG passent outre les systèmes d'inventaire ou de compétences ; familles et joueurs réfléchis apprécient les humeurs enfantines authentiques et les répliques qui titillent la philosophie.
Sydney's World is a family-friendly JRPG. Game focus is on the intersecting story arcs of a young girl seeking her father and a king in search of redemption.
Sydney is a real eight year old girl, not a cliche fem super-hero or cliche fem helpless victim. She behaves just as the real Sydney would, alternating between cuteness, petulance, innocence, anger, sorrow, illogical decisions, jealousy, extreme joy, etc.
When she's captured by an evil wizard and transported to another world, her toy elf Snowball is brought to life. He's Sydney's alter ego and ultimate childhood wish-fulfillment; his whole existence revolves around her. Together, they stop small dogs from barking, cause a king to reconsider his philosophy, and deal with very real emotions in a fantasy world setting.
King Nicholas Westergaard rules the human settlements of an unknown world. He's consumed with a war against another race and a rebellion within his own kingdom. In time he discovers he has caused both.
Explore new worlds without the usual multitude of boring side-quests and random encounters with identical enemies. There are no maps, mini-maps, mini-mini maps, or micro-maps; exploration is done the old-fashioned way, with clues and logic.
Sydney and villains are voice-acted to enhance engagement. Other characters are not, to encourage reading and imagination.
There is no profanity, blood/gore, sexual content...or even more damaging to young minds...lame dialogue and cheap endings!
Older, wiser players will enjoy unconventional aphorisms that might cause them to reconsider their own philosophy.
Hard-core RPG gamers should note that there is no inventory management or traits/abilities/skill point management.
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