Hard West 2 is aptly named. Its default difficulty setting is called Hard, too, and with good reason. Enemies are punishing and your squad’s capacity to battle against overwhelming odds is tested relentlessly over the course of several dozen hours of turn-based tactical combat. It’s a game about choosing the exact right moments to use their unique skills and working them in tandem to tee up devastating chain reaction combos. It’s tough, sure, but this demonic rendition of the American Frontier, where grotesque locomotives warp to alternate dimensions and blood rituals summon the walking dead, supplies you with the necessary creative tools to stand your ground, and rising to the challenge proves immensely satisfying.

There’s more to Hard West 2 than turn-based tactical combat, but not much more. The primary focus is a series of missions, usually with some choices about which mission to tackle next. In these, you command a posse of four gunslingers, taking turns to shoot, use supernatural skills, and advance from cover to cover. Along the way, as you traverse the overworld map on horseback, you’ll meet characters and accept quests from them to hunt down wanted criminals, investigate murders, recover livestock, fight waves of outlaws and demons, rob a bank, and most importantly, track down the man who stole your souls in a rigged game of poker aboard his steam train from Hell.

Outside of combat, Hard West 2 is essentially a bare-bones RPG. Conversations are minimal and straight to the point. Towns have shops where you can buy new weapons and replenish consumable healing items, buffs, and explosives. Quests rarely involve much more than sending you off to investigate a location and returning once the job is done. Narrative choices are limited to supporting which of your companions has the right idea for dealing with the current problem, and you can make camp to rest and chat with your companions to learn more of their backstories. These chats are linked one-to-one to the narrative choices you’ve made in a way that rather unflatteringly exposes the bald mechanics: support a companion often enough and you’ll level up your relationship to unlock the next tier of their backstory. It’s all quite basic and dry. But at least the RPG portion of the game is out of the way pretty quickly and doesn’t waste too much of your time getting to the good part: the combat.

The combat in Hard West 2 is a success because its design grasps the significance of meaningful differences. Every aspect, from the abilities of your posse members to the weapons they’re able to equip to the design of the maps, adheres to the principle that a small number of things with large differences is more interesting than a large number of things with small differences. Characters and guns, in particular, are given room to carve out a distinct identity so that deploying one over another is a genuine, and often drastically different, tactical choice.

There are only six playable characters, of which only four partake in a mission at once, but each brings a unique ability that means they never feel interchangeable. As a result, the makeup of your posse has a profound effect on the way you approach a mission. Main man Gin Carter, for example, has the Shadow Barrage ability that lets him shoot through walls, hitting multiple targets and bypassing the enemies’ cover bonuses. His companion, Flynn, can swap places with anyone–friend or foe–in her line of sight, and at later levels can deal damage over time to her victims. Broad strokes are used to paint these abilities, enhancing the differences and ensuring that whatever configuration of characters you end up using, you’ll find eclectic ways to combine their powers.

I particularly loved Old Man Bill for the way his Deadman’s Revenge ability upends the traditional play style. He can damage every enemy in his line of sight within range, with the damage increasing as Bill’s own health decreases. When Bill’s in the posse, you’ve now got a character who actually benefits from taking damage and is most usefully positioned when in the middle of a crowd of enemies. Later, he develops bonuses that further accentuate these seemingly counter-intuitive abilities, such as gaining critical hit bonuses the more times he finds himself in the firing line or giving him the ability to counter an attack if he ends a turn outside of cover.

Further, I found Bill worked hand in glove with one of the two indigenous characters to join your posse, Laughing Deer is the melee specialist and his extra speed and attacks meant he was the ideal follow-up, charging in like some sort of machete-wielding cleaner to deal the killing blow to the enemies struck by Bill’s Deadman’s Revenge.

Melee weapons can only be used when adjacent to an enemy, but you only spend one of your turn’s three action points to do so. Pistols and shotguns both use two AP, but the former has greater range and can hit targets at different elevations, while the latter can spray multiple targets with one shot. And finally, firing a rifle consumes all three AP you get each turn, but its damage and range outperforms the other weapon types.

Any movement you make consumes AP, too, so deciding which weapon to use on any given turn is a choice that carries significant consequences. It’s rarely just a matter of which gun is going to hit for the most damage, either. Since each weapon type is tailored to particular circumstances, it’s about maneuvering your posse into the best spots to take full advantage. Even the simplest decision can feel agonizingly important. Should I hold position and take a three-AP rifle shot for more damage or should I only take a two-AP pistol shot but also move to a potentially more advantageous position?

Further complicating matters here is Hard West 2’s most ingenious flash of inspiration. When you kill an enemy, a status called Bravado is activated and the character who landed the killing blow has all their AP replenished. Essentially, this means if you can score a kill, you get a whole extra turn for free–it’s astoundingly powerful. Some enemies can go down with just one shot; many others take two or three. That extra turn from a kill might let you get another kill, which means another extra turn. Chaining together kills to activate Bravado multiple times on the same turn quickly becomes the goal of every turn. And, boy, is it satisfying.

This demonic rendition of the American Frontier, where grotesque locomotives warp to alternate dimensions and blood rituals summon the walking dead, supplies you with the necessary creative tools to stand your ground, and rising to the challenge proves immensely satisfying

The Bravado system works so well because it encourages aggressive play and incentivizes taking chances. There’s no exact equivalent here of the overwatch system from XCOM, so there’s no real way to hunker down and pick off the enemy as they come at you. Instead, you’ve got to take the initiative and Bravado actively rewards you for taking risks that pay off. When you’ve got one character left and all she has is a 50% chance to hit, in another game, a risk-averse player might decline the shot and use the turn to heal up or buff their defense. In Hard West 2 you know that if that 50% shot comes off, that enemy is dead, Bravado kicks in, and you get a whole extra turn to wreak more havoc. Bravado’s always there, egging you on, urging you to give it a go, to roll those dice. And it’s very hard to resist.

Bravado also works to stretch the tactical considerations of each turn even further. Maybe one character can’t get a kill, but they can do damage and another can complete the kill to activate their Bravado. Suddenly you’re thinking, “which character do I want to get Bravado on this turn? And if I want Flynn to get Bravado this turn, what moves are Gin and Bill going to have to make first to ensure that happens?” You’re mentally mapping out each character’s potential moves, swapping between them to check their lines of sight and to-hit chances, running through the various combinations of orders you can give them and how each character can best take advantage of the previous one’s moves. Bravado is a tremendous reward for planning ahead.

The Bravado system complements the high difficulty, too. If you’re not making full use of your posse’s skills, it’s really easy to be overrun by enemies in much greater numbers, moreso when they start regenerating their health each turn or if you’re facing certain enemies who can simply summon more enemies to join the battle. Given the stern challenge, Bravado is the most effective method you have for turning the tables, and it becomes crucial to chain kills to keep it active for as long as possible. By the mid-game, if you’re not taking out a half-dozen or more enemies in a single round, then you’re probably missing a trick somewhere along the line. With the high difficulty, fortunately, comes a high strategic ceiling.

Supporting the excellent combat engine is a clever skill tree system that utilizes playing cards gained by completing missions. Far from merely a skill tree presented in a novel fashion, these cards are dealt into a hand for each member of your posse and confer a bonus to, say, the character’s health or movement speed. Get enough cards and you can start dealing poker hands that unlock new skills for each character. Deal Gin a pair and he gets a damage boost while Bravado is activated. Deal him a four-of-a-kind and his Shadow Barrage ability now also inflicts the Burning status on any enemy it hits, while also conferring all the benefits of any lower-scoring hand.

The cards are dealt from a common deck, so you’re distributing limited resources among your characters to fill out their skill trees. And this means making tough choices about who gets which cards to enable them to unlock which skills. I found myself gravitating towards certain characters whose abilities I favored, dealing Flynn those three Queens because I knew I’d make better use of her increased shotgun damage than if I dealt them to Bill to unlock his critical damage boost. The fact that new cards are often offered as a reward for completing secondary mission objectives is also a terrific incentive to fully explore each mission map.

However, the map design doesn’t always allow the combat’s tactical depth to fully express itself. The maps are typically narrow and focused on funneling you into a series of two or three distinct encounters. As a result, the maps can feel compartmentalized in a way that is both a strength and a weakness. They feel manageable in the sense that you can think of clearing an area, pausing to regroup before moving on, and even drawing a line with a manual save. At the same time, they don’t deliver the kind of continuous running battles that might involve having to split your attention and resources across several different hotspots at once, and the greater strategic scope this might entail.

Adequate use is made of the terrain. Variations in height are common across every map and, with an increased chance to hit from higher ground, much of the strategic thinking revolves around one or two characters securing elevated sniping positions while the others work to flush enemies out of cover or finish them off.

However, there’s not a great deal of variety elsewhere in the map terrain. Whether you’re fighting your way through a mining complex or a saloon or a church and graveyard, they’re all composed of the same basic pieces: The same walls that provide full cover and the same waist-high structures that provide half-cover, the same ground you can run across, the same ladders and staircases that let you reach upper or lower floors. There are few new situations to deal with–no dark areas that restrict your vision or swampy ground that slows your movement, for example–and no attempts to deliver any sort of dynamic changes to the encounters other than what the enemies themselves can bring.

You can interact with some objects in the environment, which provides a little additional variety. The lid of a nearby sturdy crate can be flicked open to transform half-cover into full, or a table can be flipped over in classic Western bar shootout-style and used as cover. But these aspects are minimal and don’t fundamentally alter your approach.

Better are the environmental objects that serve the Ricochet ability inherent in certain guns. Triggering this ability lets you target specific objects–often a metal drum or pipe or similar–to bounce your shot off them and onto an enemy you couldn’t otherwise hit with a clear shot. Maybe you can’t get a bead on the guy inside that building, but you can hit the stove behind him and rebound the bullet into his back.

The Ricochet ability does fundamentally alter your approach in that it opens up the possibility space of the map. You’re now having to calculate a whole new series of angles when considering where to position your characters, not just those vectors that may allow you to get a shot on the enemy but how that enemy may be able to use Ricochet to get at you. In fact, it’s a sign of how effective the ability is at expanding the tactical board that even on the very final mission, I still found myself caught out by an enemy puncturing my careful squad positioning with one well-placed ricocheted shot that I simply hadn’t noticed was possible.

Much like that final mission enemy, Hard West 2 gets it right where it counts. Despite some thin RPG trappings, it’s ultimately a highly-accomplished game of tactical combat with two or three genuinely terrific ideas executed exceptionally well. While it does suffer from a lack of imagination in some of its map design, that doesn’t detract too much from how enjoyable it is to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with your posse and find creative ways to put down hordes of Wild West demons.

There’s a familiarity and comfort to Two Point Campus’ early hours, from the whimsical claymation style of its characters to its distinctly British humor and jaunty music. It might trade doctors and patients for teachers and students, but if you played Two Point Hospital, you’ll feel right at home in Two Point Studios’ latest business management sim.

As the hours roll by and you graduate to different college campuses, however, Two Point Campus begins to carve out an identity that’s all its own. Two Point Hospital was a relatively safe spiritual successor to Theme Hospital, essentially recreating the ’90s classic with modern technology and amenities. Two Point Campus maintains that same reverence for its roots, but it also embraces its fresh new setting in a way that captures more of the magic that made Theme Hospital so beloved.

You take on the role of a campus administrator, charged with building and maintaining various schools throughout Two Point County. This means you’ll be managing both the micro and macro aspects of your college empire, whether you’re designing the internal and external layout of each building, hiring staff, or researching new technologies to improve various facets of your school. All of this is in service of keeping your students happy and ensuring they’re given the tools they need to not only graduate with good grades, but also enjoy themselves and learn a few lessons about life along the way.

Meeting your students’ wants and needs is an integral part of Two Point Campus. In Two Point Hospital, your job was to make sure patients were in a good-enough mood to stick around long enough to be treated. Now, you’re not just dealing with people for a brief hospital stay, but being given three academic years to shape a student’s future, watch them grow, and hopefully, see them flourish. Basic needs like food and drink, hygiene, and establishing a comfortable temperature are all important, but there’s more nuance to their happiness as well.

Early on, you’re told you need to fulfill the three Rs: relaxation, rest, and relief. You can build dormitories to give your charges a place to sleep and recharge; a student union to provide them with entertainment and a space to relax in; libraries so they have access to learning resources and an area where they can study; and private tutoring so those struggling can get some crucial one-on-one time with a teacher. There are also items that will help foster friendships and romance, or make your campus a more appealing place to live. Students will use benches to sit and converse, building bonds that boost their happiness. Stick a few arcade games in the student lounge and they’ll play against each other, while best friends might blow the love trumpet.

It’s heartwarming stuff, and all of these interlocking systems have a noticeable impact on student performance. Better grades mean more money and prestige for the school, so everything cycles back to a grading system you have a tangible effect on. Balancing the positives and negatives of each item and activity is key. Throwing parties is an easy way to quickly boost happiness, for instance, but you don’t want to overdo it and hamper your student’s studying. Filling the corridors of your campus with vending machines is a simple way to satiate your students’ thirst and hunger, but these options aren’t the healthiest and will send their hygiene tumbling. You can rectify this with food kiosks, yet these require a member of staff to manage, so you need enough of a cash flow coming in to pay their wages.

Lots of colorful graphs, floor charts, and visualizers make it relatively easy to keep on top of things and figure out why students might be unhappy in a particular area or struggling to improve their grades. It never feels overwhelming, either, since Two Point Campus does an excellent job of easing you into its various mechanics with a gradual progression system. You begin your career at Freshleigh Meadows, a modest school with a scientific focus. Here, you’re introduced to the basics and learn how to use the game’s intuitive tools to build rooms and place furnishings, all while getting an idea of the type of digs each college needs–such as staff rooms, lecture rooms, toilets, and so on.

Two Point Campus maintains reverence for its roots, but it also embraces its fresh new setting in a way that captures more of the magic that made Theme Hospital so beloved

Numerous objectives keep you focused on completing specific tasks–whether you’re asked to achieve a certain number of A grades or exceed 70% student happiness–and each one that’s ticked off edges your campus closer to becoming a coveted three-star college. This, in turn, unlocks more schools for you to manage, with every subsequent campus growing in both size and complexity. Each one introduces new concepts, giving you an environment to grasp how particular mechanics work before you step foot in the latter schools and enter full plate spinning territory.

There are a few too many instances in the early hours of the game where you have nothing to do except sit around and wait for progress bars to finish, and the fast-forward function never feels quite fast enough to alleviate the delay. Thankfully, this is the only drawback to Two Point Campus’ steady onboarding approach. Before long, you’ll be researching ways to improve all of your educational materials and training your staff so that their teaching is more effective or your janitors are able to more efficiently fix broken air conditioning units and toilets. You’ll be buying up additional real estate to construct new buildings and fill them with more classrooms and extracurricular activities, or introducing student clubs that provide members with unique abilities. The book club nerds will receive a bonus to their learning speed, for example, while those in the napping club can get some extra shut-eye in the corridors to regain energy.

When it comes to classes, Two Point Campus adopts the eccentric style of its predecessor’s illnesses–if not in concept, then at least in visual design. Giant steaming cauldrons sit in the middle of classrooms cooking enormous burgers and cakes; students use 3D printers to construct towering robots; while the field outside plays host to a sport that revolves around throwing cheese past a goalkeeper wielding a grater. Each campus specializes in a specific class, from scientography and gastronomy to spy school and wizardry, but you can introduce other courses to any campus, perhaps mixing knight and clown school together to bring all of the costumed students together in one place. Some of the other courses provide benefits, too, like music students being able to put on gigs in the student union, cutting down on the cost it usually takes to hire a performer.

Or you can simply hone your attention on each specialty, using course points to upgrade classes, thus bringing in more students and increasing the chances of them earning top grades. Doing so requires more classrooms and space to study, but the summer break in between academic years gives you welcome space to build and make tweaks before students return. This also presents decisions for you to ponder in regards to how your campus is constructed. Bigger rooms allow for more furnishings, increasing that room’s prestige and making staff and students happier when using it. But you’re always working with a finite amount of space. You can build smaller, less effective rooms, but cover a wider range of modules, adding some important decision-making to the moment-to-moment gameplay of expanding your school. Crucially, Two Point Campus also adds the option to construct your own buildings, giving you more options and lending a personal touch to your campus.

Developing the exterior is crucial, too, since you can spruce up your college’s attractiveness, whether you’re placing down trees, fountains, or colorful gardens. The tools at your disposal are also robust enough that you can agonize over the spacing between vending machines and bookshelves, losing hours at a time to simply furnishing your college with all manner of trimmings. There are aforementioned gameplay perks to decking out each room since staff and students will perform better in attractive settings, but it’s also just fun to add detail to the grand and finer parts of your college.

One area where Two Point Campus falters is in the minor grind that accompanies the start of each new school. You can save templates of any room you’ve built, which does alleviate this somewhat, but having to build the same dormitories, lecture rooms, and bathrooms over and over again becomes a bit of a chore. It doesn’t take long to do, but it does present a barrier you’ll want to rush through to reach the new content each campus introduces.

I also ran into a couple of other issues, although it’s not entirely clear if these were glitches or underlying issues with the way the game presents information. I had a few instances where teachers would refuse to teach a class with no clear reason why, opting instead to roam the corridors endlessly looking for work. Trying to figure out how to achieve certain goals can also be difficult because of how overly vague some aspects are. At one point I was tasked with keeping my students’ average hygiene above 75%, but all of the toilets, showers, trash cans, hand sanitizer, and janitors in the world couldn’t stop that percentage from plummeting. There is a hygiene visualizer, but this just showed me which toilets and beds needed attention from a janitor. In the end, I only managed to complete the objective because most of the students left during the summer, so maybe college attendees are just a smelly bunch.

These issues aside, Two Point Campus is a marked improvement on Two Point Hospital. The college setting makes for a more personable and heartfelt game, where partying, romance, and forming friendships is just as important as attending classes and studying. A plethora of interlocking systems brings it all together and digs deep into the management side of the equation without ever feeling overwhelming. The gradual stream of new concepts makes starting up at a new school exciting, and additional building tools mean there’s more customization at your fingertips than ever before. It maintains the series’ charm and wit, too, with some biting satire to boot, and ensures that Two Point Campus graduates with flying colors.

MultiVersus frames itself as the ultimate crossover fighter, a sort of “dream come true” scenario where anyone can face off against anyone else. It’s a bold proclamation challenging the reign of Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, a game that features an unmatched all-star cast of video game characters duking it out. Many pretenders to that throne have come and gone but, surprisingly, MultiVersus makes a compelling claim. The game, which is in open public beta, has strong fundamentals, charm, and attention to detail that Smash clones that came before sorely lacked, making it one of the best platform fighting games ever made.

MultiVersus follows the basic Smash Bros format: up to four players meet on a single battlefield and fight it out, with the goal of increasing damage enough to knock their opponents out of bounds. The first team to score four knockouts in a match–or the first fighter to score two knockouts in a 1v1 match–wins. So far, so Smash. However, MultiVersus puts far more emphasis on the 2v2 format, quickly establishing its own identity in the process.

Mechanically, every fighter on the roster has moves that negatively affect opponents, while simultaneously having positive effects on teammates. For example, whenever Shaggy charges to full power–a brilliant use of the Ultra Instinct Shaggy meme–his partner also receives a power bump for their next attack. One of Wonder Woman’s special attacks gives her a layer of special armor for added defense, and if she’s close enough to her partner, she’ll immediately jump to them and give them the buff too. This idea of teamwork and synergy being baked into the fundamentals of MultiVersus is a fresh and welcome change to the format, with no two matches ever feeling the same. The partner dynamic also strengthens the 2v2 mode, making it feel like the core format developers intend people to play.

Part of that synergy also comes through the perk system, with characters earning permanent buffs that can be equipped before a match and stacked between two teammates. The Wildcat Brawler perk, for instance, increases the damage of all grounded melee attacks for a team by five percent when equipped by one player, with that percentage doubled if both players equip it. As you level up characters, you can also borrow perks from teammates before a match begins–guaranteeing stacks if planned correctly–or even train a character to learn new perks using in-game gold. It’s an ingenious system with multitudes of permutations, especially when borrowing and training come into the mix, and it achieves a level of strategic planning unlike anything a platform fighter has ever seen before.

More impressively, the bulk of MultiVersus’s modes also feature online play. In free for all pitting up to four human players against each other, and cross-play capabilities allowing consoles and PC to intermingle. There have been a few stutters here and there, and the occasional “now you see me, now you don’t” moments when a bad connection causes an opponent to spontaneously teleport around a map instead of walking, but the bulk of the matches played have been smooth sailing. Accomplishing this when there’s only two players in a match is an achievement by itself, but making the network function with four people across any number of environments–console or PC–is a herculean task, and for the majority of the time, MultiVersus holds its own.

MultiVersus has strong fundamentals, charm, and attention to detail that Smash clones that came before sorely lacked, making it one of the best platform fighting games ever made

The roster isn’t quite as large as the more established Smash Bros. Ultimate cast, but it’s off to a terrific start. Velma Dinkley joins the aforementioned Shaggy from the Scooby-Doo franchise, while Wonder Woman reps DC Comics with Batman, Superman, and Harley Quinn. Steven Universe’s Steven and Garnet made the cut, as did Bugs Bunny and Taz from Looney Tunes, and Jake the Dog and Finn the Human from Adventure Time. The 17-character roster is rounded out by Arya Stark from Game of Thrones, iconic cat and mouse duo Tom and Jerry, the Iron Giant, Space Jam’s version of Lebron James, and Reindog, an original creation by developer Player First Games; he’s the goodest of good boys.

The majority of the roster will not be available to most players when they first log on. This is a free-to-play game after all, and with that distinction also comes microtransactions complete with multiple currencies. The game does offer a rotating list of four trial characters, but the bulk of the fighters will be locked. Luckily you can earn these fighters with in-game gold along with the premium currency called Gleamium, which is purchased with real money. However, the grind to unlock every character through gold is longer than it should be.

Case in point: When the trial character rotation changed after the early access period ended, I had earned enough gold through playing the game to purchase three of the four characters from the previous rotation, with the fourth coming only one day later. Around 10 hours of gameplay for four characters might sound fine to the most dedicated players, but that means it will take around 40 hours to unlock the entire roster–and by that time, at least 1-2 more fighters will be added.

This also doesn’t include the cosmetics that are only available for purchase with Gleamium, including costume variants for the cast, special announcer packs where the game’s characters serve as the match announcer, and more. Tack on a battle pass with both free and premium tiers and the monetization is strong in MultiVersus. While the free-to-play grind here isn’t a complete turn-off, more generosity with in-game gold–or the option to purchase everything with gold or Gleamium–would lessen the sting. That said, the game does prove that free-to-play can work with fighting games, positioning it as a trendsetter for the entire genre.

The announcer packs do a great job of highlighting the voice acting in MultiVersus, which ranks among the best we’ve ever heard. Every one of the characters is brimming with personality thanks to an all-star cast of performers returning to characters they helped popularize, including Matthew Lillard as Shaggy, Tara Strong as Harley Quinn, and Kevin Conroy as Batman. These aren’t random one-off lines that repeat ad nauseum either; there is a level of care and detail in some of the dialogue that goes above and beyond what we’d expected. Characters will address the other combatants before, during, and after battles with witty banter that simply can’t be heard anywhere else. Hearing Bugs Bunny call Arya Stark “the belle of Winterfell” will never not earn a smile, just as hearing Superman say “let’s see how iron stacks up against steel” to the Iron Giant will never not sound surreal.

“Surreal” is actually a perfect word to describe MultiVersus, a game that brings together iconic characters and makes them fight. These characters are as authentic as they come, feeling as if they’ve been ripped straight from their source material thanks to excellent voice work. The team-based mechanics are truly beyond anything else offered in a platform fighter, while the classic 1v1 format also impresses. The roster offers plenty of variety, though unlocking all of the characters without having to dip into the real-world wallet will definitely be a chore. We don’t know how much of its power MultiVersus has tapped into yet–the open beta will soon give way to Season 1–but as it stands now the game has smashed any and all expectations. Even if MultiVersus doesn’t unseat the king, it is more than ready to rule its own little corner of the kingdom.

River City Saga: Three Kingdoms takes the familiar characters and art style from the Kunio series–best known for River City Ransom and Super Dodgeball in the West–and applies it to a unique new setting: the Three Kingdoms era of Chinese history. It’s an unexpected mash-up, with familiar characters like Kunio, Riki, and Misako playing dress-up as historical figures, and blending the classical story of warring kingdoms with modern-day smack-talk. Similarly, the gameplay is a mixture of eras, blending some modern-day brawler conventions into a game that is decidedly old-school.

The visual style reflects this mixture, with chunky 8-bit-style sprites set against 3D backgrounds and shading techniques. The setting itself makes a very endearing mixture, albeit not the ideal way to learn Chinese history. I went into the game with only a passing familiarity with the Three Kingdoms saga, and while I’m sure I picked up a few broad strokes and overall ideas, it was sometimes hard to discern what was true to the original story and what was the Kunio series riffing with its own personality and jokes. The major characters are mostly lovable, muscley doofs, true to the Kunio series but perhaps less so to Chinese history.

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