The God Hand class does attacks which build up their level of inflicted damage over time, requiring tactical decisions on which enemies to target. The Agent, for example, uses their powers to “hack” enemies, and can thereafter make them fight each other. A lot of the enjoyment in this comes from the aforementioned class types, which are as unique as they sound. The gameplay is fairly typical RPQ fare: you run around dungeons engaging in random encounters with enemies, and level up and receive items and money the more you defeat them, until eventually you can take on the big bad dragons. The game’s unwieldy title makes a bit more sense now, right? Doing this is not so simple – it requires the hero’s party to travel through six different time periods, defeating dragons in each one to obtain samples which will allow them to defeat the dreaded 7 th Dragon, named VFD. The player’s character is roped into helping the company which made 7 th Encount to fight off the dragons. This game involves the player roaming around dungeons fighting dragons – shock horror, it turns out 7 th Encount is actually a training tool for a real dragon invasion, which starts to occur near the start of the game. The game’s story takes place in a world where a video game, 7 th Encount, is incredibly popular. In short, if you love RPG character customisation, then this is already going to be a game you enjoy. You then return to this character creation menu later in the game whenever you want to make further members for your party, as you unlock more character sprites and classes. The different class types are quite unconventional by RPG standards: rather than the typical knight, mage, etc, you are given the choice of Agent, God Hand, Samurai and Duelist. There are 20 male and 20 female voices to choose from, all of them famous voice actors in Japan (as in, if you’ve watched any anime at all, you will have heard the work of some of them), and you can mix and match these voices with a ton of different, but all appealing, character art to find your perfect set. This process alone took me a good 20 minutes, simply because there is so much variety on offer. However, while it may seem like an odd choice for release, it is without doubt a competent game which provides a solid dungeon-crawling experience.ħ th Dragon III Code: VFD begins with an impressive character creator menu – you are presented with a fair few different anime-style character drawings, which you then customise the colour scheme of, select a voice for, determine a class type, and finally name. There’s also fairly little to differentiate it from any number of Nintendo 3DS RPGs that Japan churns out on a regular basis. As its complex name suggests, it’s a sequel (the third game in the series, rather than the seventh), but none of its predecessors have been released in English.
It’s a pleasant surprise that 7th Dragon III Code: VFD got released here in the west.
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