- Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Fantasy
A first-person RPG dungeon crawler set in the present day and continuing the El Shaddai series. The game uses random encounters and turn-based combat with a team of 5 characters. Creatures can be captured and added to your team, as well as being combined to create more powerful creatures.
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Grave, plot-driven, classical in form and earnest.
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
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GamePittRob PittJun 20188.5/10The Lost Child is both a great game and a very frustrating one. It does a lot of things really well, the dungeon crawling, the story, the voice acting, the combat, and the puzzles themselves. Yet, it also has issues with the lack of tracking your investigations well, the difficulty spike at certain points, the too-frequent random battles, and the vagueness of some of the riddles. However, as a whole, the game was great to play through as it only got more interesting the more you got into it, and it was very satisfying to both solve the puzzles and unlock 100% of each floor.
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Digitally DownloadedMatt SainsburyJun 20184/5 starsThe Lost Child is also a game that so cleanly represents everything good about the dungeon crawler genre that I found it hard to put down. The fact that it's the perfect introduction to the dungeon crawler genre also makes it the perfect first example on the new hardware.
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NintendoWorldReportDavid LloydJun 20188/10undefined.It would be an easy task to find faults simply by focusing in on individual aspects of The Lost Child. The vast majority of the game can be traced back to another JRPG that probably did it better, and if you can't get passed that, than you probably aren't going to enjoy it. But what I can't deny is that when I just stopped caring about how much was borrowed from previous titles, I had a lot of fun, and that's all that really matters.
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TheSixthAxisMiguel MoranJun 20183/10The Lost Child is a dull, uninspired dungeon crawler. On paper, a Lovecraft dungeon crawler with a Japanese flair could be something truly iconic and memorable. Instead of realizing that ideal, The Lost Child apes existing dungeon crawlers and throws a dozen ideas at the wall, with none of them managing to stick. Combat can be fun and the El Shaddai nods are cute, but it isn't enough to make this cosmic terror worth losing your sanity over.
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Hardcore GamerJason BohnJun 20182.5/5The strange thing about The Lost Child is that, despite its many, many flaws, it still manages to be entertaining by virtue of being a bog standard, but competent, first-person dungeon crawler with a great pace of progress.
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About the game
- Platforms
- PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Nintendo Switch
- Developer
- Crim, Kadokawa Games
- Publisher
- Kadokawa Games, NIS America
- Released
- August 24, 2017
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- First person
IGDB rating 8.2/10 from 1 ratings.
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