The gameplay mechanics are surprisingly unclear and the incredibly quirky terminology may throw some people off. Soul Nomad is, first and foremost, somewhat hard to understand. Although we've seen somewhat similar stories of threatened worlds and great power before, it's somewhat rarer to have a God of Destruction sharing your body, so that's pretty rad. The dynamic between your hero and the encased soul of a God can be pretty entertaining, considering Gig's hopelessly cocky personality. That's actually one of the more entertaining aspects of Soul Nomad. Let's just say that this game has a very interesting premise. If you're a little confused, that's okay. He's a hyper sarcastic God and he's not too happy about his current situation. So your body has a visitor, and that visitor is Gig. When you're only a few minutes into the game, your character is fused with the soul of that same sinister being in hopes that, with his power, you can destroy the World Eaters that still remain. At the game's beginning, you find out that long ago three World Eaters, commanded by a single dark figure, completely ravaged the land, but went silent when their leader was sealed by the forces of good. In this manner, despite the fact that most of the dialogue trees are linear, you still feel like you're taking on the role of the hero, which is a nice touch. From then on, you usually select every line of dialogue that your character speaks, even if you only have one choice. Soul Nomad places you in the shoes of a hero, either male or female, that you name. And while this game does a lot of things well, considering its well-versed developer, it carries a number of pretty obvious flaws that hurt the overall experience. Very much in line with other NIS titles, Soul Nomad is extraordinarily deep and undeniably quirky, and offers itself in a simplistic, old-school format that will please some people and completely turn-off others. For Nippon Ichi fans who've beaten the latest Disgaea and want to see what else the company has done, or just those looking for a tactics game with a more punkish attitude, one could do far worse than sinking their teeth into the World Eaters' story.Developed by Nippon Ichi Software, Soul Nomad is a strategy RPG that generally revolves around the idea of divine power and how it could be used to either conquer the world or save it. However, it's still a competently-made strategy RPG with some good map design, as well as a killer soundtrack that helps make up for its aged visuals. Soul Nomad is by no means a hidden masterpiece, and its oppressive aesthetics are certain to turn away many players. While some may regard it as tastelessly edgy (and not without good reason), it's hard not to respect the effort that went into crafting an evil storyline that really does make the player feel like a monster. Long before games like Undertale and Fallout: New Vegas were popularizing the idea of having there be drastic consequences for making evil choices, Soul Nomad was allowing players to become a fully-fledged dark lord, complete with their own evil headquarters and opposing band of heroes. The Demon Path is an incredibly depressing tale, but it's also strangely ahead of its time in some respects. Being forced to participate in wanton slaughter results in these hapless victims going mad with fear, embracing a violent form of nihilism or just ending their own lives to escape the constant suffering.
While it allows the player to recruit many of the game's minor antagonists, giving them some much-needed development, it also sees them enslave many heroic ones.
Unlike other games with an evil route, however, this is an entirely separate campaign, and it's a particularly nasty one. In the game's infamous Demon Path, Revya can reject their heroic destiny and embark upon a campaign of conquest and destruction across the entire world. However, the darkest villain in Soul Nomad has the potential to be the player themselves. From the genre's usual corrupt lords and despotic gods to child slavers and abusive predators, this game's antagonists are so utterly heinous that it's all too easy to give into Gig's temptation and decimate them with his demonic power. Yet, for all his vices, Soul Nomad has so many even viler characters that he looks positively cartoonish by comparison.
Being a genocidal maniac who finds slaughter hilarious, curses with every other sentence and constantly encourages the most destructive course of action, it's fair to say he'd be the villain in any other game. Speaking of which, for better or worse, Gig is the star of this show.
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