Hands On: Unicorn Overlord Has the Potential to Be One of 2024's Best RPGs - Push Square

Anyway, the bottom line here is that Unicorn Overlord has serious potential. Between Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Persona 3 Reload, and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, RPG fans are already eating ridiculously well in 2024 — but you need to keep an eye on Vanillaware's latest, even with the likes of Dragon's Dogma 2 closing in. If any studio deserves a smash hit, it's this one.

[ZeekQuattro]

The demo sold me on the game. I will be picking it at some point.

[Nacho_Z]

I know they're branching out and evolving and that's great, personally though I'd have liked them to carry on making games like Dragon's Crown and take the genre to new heights.

[jznrpg]

Great game. The last game Grim Grimoires didn’t interest me much at all but I enjoyed 13 Sentinels a lot. I would also like an upgrade and expansion of what Dragons Crown did as well but I do enjoy tactics games so I am happy about Unicorn Overlord. Actually Grim Grimoires is the only game that I saw where I wasn’t really interested from Vanillaware that I can remember. Muramasa was great also

[jznrpg]

PS5 is killing my free time. I will definitely get this game and I’m fairly sure I have it preordered but damn when will I have the time for this FF7R, Rise of Ronin, Stellar Blade Eiyuden Chronicles etc etc etc.. I will have to push something aside and buy it a little later there’s just too many games to play in the next 6 months.

[thorstein]

Me too. I'm literally looking at unplayed games in my library and trying to figure out the time to play them.

I was told we didn't have games.

[TwoPicklesGood]

We still don’t have first party games or even a roadmap. Sure we have 3rd party or times console exclusives but thats not what we’re talking about here. It is what it is but I expect better from Sony.

[franwex]

The demo was really good. I’ll definitely pick it up.

[MeteorPanda]

And I can't play it due to one stupid oversight.

The frame cuts in combat give me motion sickness.

Why...why in a turn based game did you think the enemy and player needed their own frames and cut between the two?

[X-23]

Played the Demo not expecting much, but was pulled into it rather quickly and found myself enjoying it far more than I thought I would also the voice acting is amazing. Definitely going to pick this up.

[jaymacx]

It’s nice to see more games similar to Fire Emblem. As most have said, the Demo sold me on the game.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

Honestly, I wasn't that interested in the game despite it being a Vanillaware game, but after playing that demo, I played that for ages and had a lot of fun, I think I'm going to end up buying this.

[Spartacus215]

I had to Pre-Order the PS5 Collector’s Edition of Unicorn Overlord after playing a sizable amount of the Demo! I’ve never played a Vanillaware Title, so I’m very excited to jump into the foray! 🦄