As Joe so blithely put it, Seventh Lair flagrantly reuses the character models and backgrounds from Fata Morgana for a brand new story. This is mentioned on the game\u2019s eShop page and the FM characters are literally credited by name in the credits, so they\u2019re honest with it. The \u201cYou\u201d character is portraying a Paris-based game developer with the hacker alias Dark\u2020Knight, who has created some small indie releases on his own website \u201cRoyaume Heaven*\u201d. After a bit of creator\u2019s block, he announces a new release for April Fools\u2019 Day, but as the game goes live he falls unconscious and wakes up in a clearly-Dragon Quest-inspired JRPG as the hero character. Regular members of his site\u2019s forums start appearing as other party members and even – in one instance – NPCs, and the party must work their way to the end of the game using only Dark\u2020Knight\u2019s memories of the planning notes for the game. After some sequence breaking that would make a Super Metroid speedrunner blush, the endgame reveals the reason for the characters being brought to the fantasy world to begin with, which involves discussions of suicide (among other things) that left me incredibly shaken.<\/p>\n

Unlike its predecessor, Seventh Lair is a brief adventure; I was able to get through it in a handful of hours. There aren\u2019t any choices in the story, and aside from a brief post-credits \u201cshort story\u201d, what you get in the main plot is it. Unfortunately, the editing of the story itself is a bit rough, as there were more typos \/ missed words in this brief adventure than were in the entirety of Fata Morgana. I might have been tempted to blame the publisher especially since it was their maiden effort on Switch, but MangaGamer did publish the original English release of Fata Morgana that the console releases (published by Limited Run Games or its predecessor) were based on. Hopefully the text will be cleaned up later on.<\/p>\n

Given the open asset reuse, they did a good job adapting the characters and environments to a \u201cfantasy RPG\u201d world. There\u2019s even a reason why the main character has incredibly long hair in-universe, which was a bit of attention to detail that I appreciated. The soundtrack retains a propensity for haunting melodies, with the songs \u201cOne Cut Deeper\u201d, \u201cLand of Nowhere\u201d, and especially \u201cThe Voice of Fairy\u201d being standouts. (The last of those is actually used as a part of the plot, as well.)<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t regret taking a few hours to read Seventh Lair, though I did need several minutes to collect myself at the end of the tale. With some cleaned up text, it could be an all-time great visual novella – but for now, it\u2019s a solid one with some things worth discussing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It\u2019s nothing like its predecessor; it\u2019s short and doesn\u2019t end well. (Content warning: Contains discussion of suicide.) It all began with a single quote from Joe DeVader on our site Slack channel: \u201c”Fata Morgana devs release spinoff where they reuse characters and assets to tell a story about an indie dev and his fans getting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/www.nintendoworldreport.com\/media\/62841\/1\/1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nintendo"],"yoast_head":"\n