The Cruel King and the Great Hero - Nintendo Switch

Once like never, a brave hero fought with a terrifying dragon known as Cruel King and finally came out victorious.

However, instead of giving the stroke, the hero decided to cut one of the Dragon's horns, proclaiming: "You have to aton your sins."

In the days that followed, the hero spent time with the dragon while he was healing and, before he realized, the hero and the dragon became very close friends.



One day, years later, the hero suffered a fatal wound, to whom his only daughter, Yuu, survived. He asked his good friend to raise his daughter in a great hero, and the powerful beast gave him his word as the last desire of the hero.

From that moment, he watched on Yuu, serving as a protector and guide in her many adventures, so that one day he could become a great hero.

However, these idyllic moments will not last endlessly, because the inevitable recurrence of the truth from the past of the cruel king is approaching, announcing new attempts for both the king and Yuu ...



Features:

- The Cruel King and the Great Hero is a classic JRPG with an illustrated story aesthetics, which manages to combine the nostalgic charm of SNES Era Games with a hot and deeply humanized narrative.
- The story follows the adventures of a little girl full of heroic dreams, raised by a king Dragon in a village of monsters, and its development is presented as an emotional bildungsroman, where childhood courage meets with parental protective love.
- The central relationship between the girl and her adoptive dragon is a tender and subtly explored one, he secretly intervening in her struggles to help her, without knowing, thus strengthening the theme of the game about trust, autonomy and protection.
- The fighting system is a very simplified turn-based, meant to evoke memories of long, with a mechanic of intelligently integrated story- for example, when the little girl uses a "fire sword", the Dragon blows on her stick to create the illusion of a magical power.
- Although charming, the gameplay suffers from a pronounced repetition, with quite predictable enemies, a constant grind and a high rate of random meetings, which can become tiring in areas where the character's movement is slow.
- The world of the game is populated by secondary characters inspired by classical fairy tales and fables, with secondary missions that take place as small stories with moral teachings, adding to the game a layer of narrative depth and folkloric charm.
-The artistic style is one of the most memorable aspects of the game, with hand-painted backgrounds, animated characters and a level of visual detail that transforms each location into a living illustration from a children's book.
- The soundtrack perfectly supports the narrative atmosphere, and the vocal narrative made by Shikata Akiko adds extra authenticity to the story, with the gentle and sleepy tone of a mother reading a good night story.
- Despite mechanical limitations and occasional frustrations, The Cruel King and the Great Hero remains a delicate ode to childhood, fairy tales and family relationships, managing to provide a very memorable emotional and visual experience to discover it with patience.