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God Wars: Future Past

A tactical RPG that fuses Japan's oldest historical record book, Kojiki, and an ancient figure who everyone knows, Shaka, into a single adventure. It illustrates the lives of heroes who left their marks…

74 16 June 2017 ESRB T

God Wars: Future Past is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Kadokawa Games, released 16 June 2017 on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita.

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What God Wars: Future Past is

God Wars: Future Past is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Kadokawa Games and released in 2017. It is available on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita. It carries an ESRB T age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

"A long time ago, there was a beautiful land made up of three nations: Fuji, Izumo, and Hyuga. This land was called Mizuho. The people of Mizuho disliked conflict, honored their ancestral spirits, and lived in harmony with nature. However, over time, they began cultivating crops, forging and using metal, fighting wars, destroying nature, and neglecting to honor their ancestral spirits. In the meantime, various locations in Mizuho suffered from natural disasters like flooding, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. In order to stop a destructive eruption, the Queen of Mizuho, Tsukuyomi, sacrificed her beloved daughter Sakuya to the mountain, confined her other daughter Kaguya within a bamboo…
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

God Wars: Future Past holds a critic score of 74 out of 100. That places it above 44% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 3 points above the year average.

What it launched against

God Wars: Future Past launched on 16 June 2017, within three weeks of Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, Diablo III: Eternal Collection, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy and Tekken 7. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, Diablo III: Eternal Collection, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, Tekken 7.

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When did God Wars: Future Past come out?
God Wars: Future Past was released on 16 June 2017 for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita.

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