Septem's a lone knight with a big problem: Venice's thuggish zealots think he's an evil heretic, and his new bff, Nicole—an amusingly/terrifyingly naive servant of Satan who doesn't see the problem with killing anyone and everyone who tries to pick a fight with them—kinda makes it hard to argue he isn't the devil's number one fan. It's far from the first game to brand me as an enemy of the state, but I'm struggling to think of one that pits me against the heavens themselves before I've left the first town.
Most RPGs can only dream of having an opening as attention-grabbing as that, or claim to take their hero on a journey that spans half as many fantasy-themed reimaginings of real-world cultures as Xuan-Yuan Sword: Mists Beyond the Mountains eventually does.
