‘Soul Sacrifice’ Review Roundup

Soul Sacrifice was released today on PlayStation Vita. See what the critics had to say.

Soul Sacrifice is a third-person action RPG in which you play as a sorcerer who can sacrifice limbs or allies to cast powerful spells. This morbid title is singlehandedly responsible for a boost in sales for the PlayStation Vita in Japan, so that may tell you everything you need to know. However, the US has different tastes, and what works in Japan may not work here.

Rest assured, the critics found Soul Sacrifice favorable. Before you re-label Monster Hunter as a less-violent Soul Sacrifice clone, remember that this game is strange, but it’s strange in many of the right ways. It combines odd and violent ideas in a way that will have you wondering where the hours went.

You start the game in a kind of purgatory, when you get visited by a book (yes, a living book) named Librom. Your fate is decided by a sorcerer named Magusar, and Librom guides you from there on. Your very survival depends on what’s in the pages of this twisted book.

Soul Sacrifice is not for everyone. The game is hard if you don’t learn almost constantly, as it forces you to know what you’re doing at every step. You must figure out every monster’s tactics and learn to exploit them or you will die very quickly.

This game is heavy on the use of magic, which is divided into three types; attack, defense, and support. These types of magic are exactly how they sound.

It turns out the living book Libron is actually the journal of a sorcerer who used to travel with Magusar, and thus its information proves invaluable as far as learning the game and surviving long enough to take Magusar down. You are tasked with “reliving” the events of the past in order to defeat the antagonist.

It’s a fun game, but it requires you to learn or die.

What do you think of Soul Sacrifice?