Review: Fernz Gate - A Retro-Style RPG With Some Interesting Ideas

When worlds collide.

You’ve really got to feel sorry for developer releasing a traditional RPG on Nintendo Switch in the wake of Octopath Traveler. Square Enix’s throwback summer release may have had a few niggling issues, but it took all the things we loved from the glory days of Final Fantasy and made them feel fresh and new once more. Fernz Gate might not make such a grand impact on the genre, but beneath those retro visuals lies an adventure bubbling with role-playing potential.

You play Alex, a high school student with immaculate anime hair who awakes in a mysterious and predictably medieval-style new realm. Turns out he’s in Fernland, a 'world between worlds' full of travellers who have fallen out of their own reality and into this one. It’s a rather strange place, one where mana flows with wanton abandon and monsters lurk around every corner. Of course, there’s a big bad who’s causing all sorts of big bad things (who also happens to sport a costume that’s going to have Ganondorf’s lawyers throwing copyright claims around in no time) but isn’t there always?

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