Review Unicorn Overlord PS5 An Utterly Brilliant Strategy RPG
Follow the white horse.
Vanillaware doesn't miss. We've been spouting that line for ages, but with the arrival of Unicorn Overlord, it rings truer than ever before. Following up on the superb 13 Sentinels was never going to be easy, but the Japanese studio has somehow manged to produce an equally excellent game three years later — and it's not even in the same genre.
Unicorn Overlord is a strategy RPG that takes obvious inspiration from classic properties like Fire Emblem and Ogre Battle / Tactics Ogre. It's got an unmistakable old school air to it — not unlike Dragon's Crown, another Vanillaware favourite — but it's dripping in the developer's trademark art style, and it's decked out in modernised design. This is very much Vanillaware's take on an established concept — again, just like Dragon's Crown — but the title's lack of originality never stops it from being a deeply fulfilling adventure.
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