![]() ![]() The game is quite happy to let players skip through everything if they wish, knowing that there’s no real reason to drag things on and attempting to at least provide some humour. Most events - selected from a basic map - go quickly, some being just a couple of sentences, but it does mean that players have little reason to feel invested in events. The lighthearted nature of the majority of the cast overpowers the game’s few attempts to instill actual drama, though this isn’t in itself a bad thing. As the exercise begins, however, the interventions of a couple of outsiders threaten to cause havoc instead. The game’s story mode stars Shimakaze and Suruga, two members of the Sakura Empire, which is hosting the Joint Military Exercise, a get-together of Kansen from the world’s four main powers - the Sakura Empire, the Royal Navy, the Iron Blood, and the Eagle Union - along with a couple of entries from elsewhere. There are some references to a pair of large conflicts in the past, though even those are treated as being much less destructive than the real-world versions. Its novelty value holds up acceptably for the time it takes to get through the fairly brief story mode, though the lack of gameplay variation and much else to do means it’s not one to stick around long in the memory.Īzur Lane: Crosswave’s world is built very much around friendly competition rather than anything resembling serious conflict. ![]() Azur Lane: Crosswave is one such entry, starting life as the very popular Chinese mobile title Azur Lane before Felistella and Compile Heart created this console action RPG take on the title, where real-world ships take the form of excitable maidens called Kansen and battle it out in a much more lighthearted manner than their original versions. The whole “X as female characters” is a curious genre to have risen to prominence in recent years.
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