I went north first and collected enough currency to afford a health upgrade. The currency you use to buy things is hard to find – monsters don’t drop cash like candy like they do in other games. There are shops offering new movement abilities, upgrades for your gun, new techniques for you sword, bombs and increased health kit storage. You’ll have to see which of the three immediately available areas you can handle with your starting equipment. Which way you go first is really down to personal preference. What’ll happen when you activate all these contraptions? That would be telling. You can immediately go north, east or west, but the path to the south temple is locked until you complete the other three. Each point of the diamond is linked to a distant temple – one in each cardinal direction, each housing a device you must activate. Whatever’s going on seems to be linked to a diamond-shaped stone monument in the center of the town. He awakens by a bonfire, eventually encounters a deadly monster, and is rescued by a guy who looks fairly similar to him.Īfter he wakes up in his saviour’s house in the hub town, the game begins in earnest. He has some trippy visions of giant robot monsters and a strange dog-like creature that seems to be trying to guide him somewhere, and then he passes out. The opening depicts the unnamed player character arriving in the war-ravaged game world. There’s not a single written or spoken word in the game. Website: Usually I’d start off by explaining the premise, but that’s a bit difficult here.