SOU KAI GI

In December 1997, a terrible incident took place in Japan. The Fuji mountain exploded, which brought the whole country into great danger. A huge fireball was created and it smashed down, everything within a radius of 50 km was totally wiped out, killing millions of people. Out from the explosion, a pillar of fire springs out. When things cooled down, it ended up being a 150 km long stonepillar, with a diameter of 10 km. 1/3 of the population is estimated to be killed in the incident. Later, armies of monsters invaded Japan. The game is centred around a high school girl called Mizuho.

SOUKAIGI is mainly an action game, but you will find many RPG elements here. There will be plenty of conversations between the characters, and together with various events, you will learn the relationships between them. The graphics are of absolutely top-quality, as we can always expect from Square. And of course, there will be plenty of incredible CG movies as well.

The gameplay is quite interesting. The game takes place in the modern Japan, but your characters seem to come from the ancient times. Perhaps they come from another dimension and was brought here by the Fuji incident (the title SOUKAIGI means Twin Dimensions). You control your character like in ARMORED CORE, you have absolute movement freedom within the game field.

The control consists of 'physical attack', 'special attack', 'jump' and 'boost'. For normal attacks, you will use swords or bow & arrows. The characters have some really cool looking special attacks. You have to see how they prepares the attacks, the effects are totally awesome!! The 'boost' option is neat too. You can travel around like a rocket (kinda reminds me of Dragon Ball).