Overall I’m not a fan of inevitability nor its nihilistic counterpart. For what purpose is there in existence if one does not struggle for what they believe in? Perhaps in a billion years, nothing will remember us, but we do not exist in that billion-year span gazing upon the Earth as a passive observer. Each day, each moment we must live and exist. When a game thus presents the inevitability of an inescapable end it’d well reason it wouldn’t be of interest to me, but I find Hero Must Die. Again to be an interesting premise.
You’ve killed the Demon Lord, but not without sacrificing your own life for those that you wished to protect. The god of that world ,too lazy to just resurrect you, has granted you 5 more days of life over which you will slowly decay and ultimately die ascending to heaven as a reward for your heroism. What you do over that 5 days is up to you. Set your affairs in order, chase after the one you loved and fought for and/or continue to be the hero you were and fix the little things you left unresolved on your campaign to save the world.
It presents an almost poetic examination of what it means to be who you are. Asking the player simply what will you do with the last 5 days of your life. Unlike real life, the answer isn’t going to be laugh hysterically as one blows their diet while doing copious amounts of drugs! With a smidgen of revenge, self-pity, and goodbyes thrown in. Instead, it will be goodbyes, wooing your love, and curb-stomping any monsters that may have escaped your crusade of justice.
Whatever your choices may this spring on the PC, Playstation 4, and Switch you’ll be able to rejoice that while you cannot escape death nor somehow find a workaround at the very least NIS America will not be localizing your final days. Demonstrating that God is truly merciful.
You are the hero, your last memory is fighting with the demon Guile and felling it, thus saving your world. However, you seem to have died in the process and now you cannot remember her, the one for which you went alone to fight the demon. Due to your great deed, the gods have given you five more days to put your affairs in order, but time will quickly take its toll and you will grow weaker as the days pass.
Good luck in finding out what happened!
From renowned creator Shoji Masuda (Linda³, Oreshika) comes an epic anti-RPG about aging and death.
A full localization and brush-up of a game only available until now in Japan on PS Vita.
Features:
-Fantasy anti-RPG where the hero starts at his strongest, and grows weaker as time passes
-Over 50 different funerals (endings) depending on what the hero accomplished
-8 unique heroines to woo, each with their own personalities and motivations. Which is the one you were protecting?
-Visit the world you have just saved, and resolve remaining problems to lead it to the best possible future
