Adventure Academia: The Fractured Continent is a fully-fledged strategy RPG set in the world of Class of Heroes. Create your own party of students in a fantasy realm. Pick them up and guide them to victory against the monster hordes. Armed with an ancient relic - the Ruler Orb - passed down for following generations and plenty of support from the loyal students of Obsidian High you will need to strategize, recruit, manage and fight with everything you have to defeat the hordes of monsters threatening your home. Take command and forge the way forward…and to the truth once and for all...

It borrows heavily from much better games

Adventure Academia: The Fractured Continent is an old skool strategy RPG game that borrows heavily from much better games but never manages to stand on its own two feet.

Graphically it's interesting enough, with large and colourful characters, but the controls are a little chunky making it a nightmare in mid-battle to ensure you put the right characters front and centre to get the job done. Likewise, levelling up each character on the fly sounds easy enough but in reality, in the heat of battle, it's another frustrating element to keep an eye on.

It soon becomes clear that there's little variety between the maps

The levels start off fine enough, but it soon becomes clear that there's little variety between the maps or beasties and on occasion I was left wondering if I was merely replaying the previous level.

The RRP, I felt, was also too expensive and the (thankfully) skippable story was not engaging enough for me to want to follow it.

For strategy RPG fans this may hold some merit but there are much better examples of the genre out there.

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Nick Smithson