Demon Gaze Review | Metro

And although the art is often impressive, it’s a bizarre mixture of cutesy anime and bad guys that look like they’ve wondered in off the cover of a ’70s prog rock album.

The visuals are inconsistent and low tech but that really doesn’t matter, for as with Etrian Odyssey a lot of the adventure is happening in your head and all the expensive graphics in the world can’t compete with a suitably inspired imagination.

And that’s why games like Demon Gaze benefit from being such anachronisms, as they preserve a style of virtual world that is woven primarily from gameplay not graphics.

A focus more modern games can rarely afford to pursue.