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To address the elephant in the room, no, Blades of Fire’s main protagonist Aran De Lira has not been named after me, though I commend MercurySteam for choosing such an iconic name. While I am a guy who sits in front of screens most of the day, Aran De Lira is a blacksmith who starts Blades of Fire living in the woods. As he’s ripped out of this humble life and into a quest to save the lands, his blacksmithing remains a core skill that’s forged in alongside Metroidvania exploration and tough Souls-like combat.
Amerzone: The Explorer’s Legacy has quite the history, this remake bringing back Benoit Sokal’s Amerzone from 1998, which itself was based on a comic strip from 1986. Amerzone was the first major adventure game Sokal was behind, setting the foundations for its better known cousin, Syberia. Microids’ remake has a lot to live up to from a reputational perspective, and it generally does.
How far will you go to help your family? Would you lend them some money? Help them to build a business to secure their future? Get exiled to a cursed town to turnaround a failing business while slowly dying? If you chose the last option, then you may have to check you have not transformed into Michi, the main character of weird and thoroughly charming Promise Mascot Agency.