"Bandai Namco, who publishes FromSoft's Souls games as well as Elden Ring, dropped an anime-style version of the genre in 2019's Code Vein, and now it's back for more in Code Vein II. We spent a few hours with the next Code Vein adventure during The Game Awards week, and we came away impressed with its improved combat system and a new and interesting take on the genre's "summon" mechanic, but what surprised us most was an original story that carries some emotional weight."
"A century prior, a group of Revenant warriors tried to seal the Resurgence and save the planet, only to fail and bring on another phenomenon that insteads speeds up the process. Those fallen would-be heroes are trapped around the world, and our hero, with the help of a friend with time-traveling powers, must go back into the past, work with those warriors to figure out how to unlock that which traps them in the present, then come back and defeat them once and for all."
Code Vein II refines the anime-style souls-like formula with improved combat mechanics and an inventive summon system. The setting pairs humans and Revenants, a vampiric human-like species, in a world ravaged by the Resurgence, which slowly transforms Revenants into mindless beasts. A failed attempt a century earlier to seal the Resurgence accelerated the catastrophe and trapped fallen warriors across the world. The protagonist, aided by a time-traveling ally, must travel to the past, collaborate with those warriors to unlock their entrapment, then return to confront the present threat. The narrative is standalone, allowing newcomers to jump in without prior knowledge.
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