left me completely uninterested in anything that was going on with its characters or setting … That’s a real missed opportunity in a game that’s releasing after Tales of Arise, which confidently explores deep themes like race and class issues. Players follow a crew of stereotypical characters that share the same arcs relating to base-level mental health issues. The core weakness of Monark’s storytelling is the characters. It’s actually a decent time and has a somewhat interesting twist later on. The plot is typical for a JRPG of this style, but that doesn’t make it unenjoyable.

The team is tasked with defeating the seven Pactbearers and their Monarks. The party learns that the mist appears when a human becomes a Pactbearer and forms a pact with the highest-ranking demon, a Monark, and unleashes its power in the real world.

Players join up with the principal, a group of students, and a demonic plushie. This mist has trapped students in various areas and driven people within it to insanity. Monark’s protagonist awakens in a madness-inducing mist surrounded and filled school of Shin Mikado Academy, where no one has a way in or out. The only issue is that Monark quickly falls into a rut with them, giving players a Japanese role-playing game that eventually runs out of steam.

The ideas that Monark presents the players with are both new and borrowed from the past. Modern Combat Versus was released world wide this week on IOS, Android and Windows Store and we would like to share with you some of the work made by the Character Art TeamĪll the scuplts were mainly done in Zbrush and rendered in Keyshot using KeyshotBridge.įor each Agents each character artist was responsible for the high-res scuplt, the retopo and texturing in Substance Painter, skinning and posing and rendering for marketing shots in Marmoset, game retopo, LODs, FP hands and first pass skinning.What I was met with is a game that brings some great ideas to the table, but doesn’t have any idea how to use them to their fullest.

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