The story opens with a great hero named Jado leading a team of great warriors to take down a powerful evil being. The group of incredible heroes mows down legions of opponents in few minutes, but they seems to falter when facing the final enemy.
A time skip follows, and begins the story of the protagonst, Phenix, a kind and young blonde man with impressive sword skills that spends his days taking care of some orphans and wrestling bears. But an attacking army, that is destroying villages, also destroys Phenix's home, so Phenix joins Sledge, a great war hero, to discover who's behind the invading army, stop him once for all and obtain his revenge.
Neo Jado isn't your typical fantasy rpg: the game has no party system, characterl levels, nor the classic combat system, but instead it's a story driven adventure that relies on lots of different activities and minigames: there are quicktime events, realtime combat, shooting, pushing crates puzzles, mazes with traps, arm wrestling and so on. The game is also heavy on dialogues and cutscenes, and we also get to see other sides of the story playing as other characters like Sledge the war hero, Abigail the knight, June the blacksmith and more.
Random Fact: while the plot is quite serious and epic in tone, the game has lots of comedy moments and references to other media: for example there is a hotel called Hotel California, where you can listen to the same named song by Eagles. Or at a certain point Phenix has to face the Cage Gang that is composed by Nicholas Cage, Johnny Cage and Luke Cage. Also for some reasons the save points are represented by corn.
Final Verdict: an excellent story driven adventure, unfortunately it's a first half of an epic tale that has no epilogue. It's still pretty long and fun, and I didn't find it challenging, even if some parts like some quicktime events and the boss fights where a little harder, anyway I never had to use the healing items. Play it, unless you are looking for a classic fantasy jrpg.
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