![]() Even more interesting are the Burst moves, which are executed with a meter that fills up during battle and is shared by the full group. Aside from the standard turn-based setup with standard attacks, special abilities that use energy, and status effects that can be inflicted, there’s some notable strategy in being able to see the slightly randomized turn order on the screen, allowing you to consider which moves to possibly make in advance. Unsurprisingly, battle makes up a good portion of Battle Chasers: Nightwar, and the combat is quite solid indeed. ![]() In our mission to infiltrate a den of thieves, we could swap between one of the three characters to traverse it with, each able to use certain special abilities to get through the dungeon and score pre-emptive strikes on enemies. Actually, all the characters were joined up, it’s just that you can only have three certain characters active during battle, and one traveling on the land to act as an avatar. The demo played featured a team consisting of the adventurous super-powered gauntlet-wearing girl Gully, cranky yet lovable old wizard Knolan, and sentient, peace-loving massive former war golem Calibretto (and I sadly know some asshole is going to call him a Bastion rip-off due to his behavior despite ‘Bretto predating the character by nearly two decades). But finally, after a successful Kickstarter campaign, the crew is finally back in RPG form thanks to Battle Chasers: Nightwar (with new issues of the comic to follow) and so far it looks like this may indeed be one successful comeback. Created by then-white hot artist and writer Joe Madureira, the series debuted in 1998 and quickly became one the biggest comics on the market…before more than a few scheduling issues sadly left it unfinished (and leaving it more into the category of a cult hit these days). ![]() Out of the ashes of all of this, though, a desire for more creativity and variety in comics seemed to emerge, as exemplified by the success of a fantasy comic such as Battle Chasers. The speculator market collapsed, Marvel had gone bankrupt, events such as Deathmate killed entire companies and the desire for gritty heroes with Liefeldian proportions was gone. The mid-to-late ’90s was a turning point for comic books. ![]()
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