Zwei: The Arges Adventure

Release Date: January 24, 2018

RPG, fantasy, action RPG, jRPG, singleplayer

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A Japanese role-playing game developed for PCs. Zwei: The Arges Adventure tells a story about an adventure of half-siblings, allowing the player to switch between the two characters at any time. For the most part, the player explores the game world and engages in arcady fights against the encountered enemies. The experience is diversified by the presence of puzzles and numerous mini-games.

Plot
Mechanics
Technical aspects

Zwei: The Arges Adventure for PC is a Japanese RPG developed by Nihon Falcom, a studio popular for such games as Tokyo Xanadu eX+, the Ys, or The Legend of Heroes series. The game constitutes an improved version of Zwei!!, which debuted in 2001 on the PC in Japan, and never had an english-language release.

Plot

The game is set in a fantasy world and tells a story of half-siblings – a boy by the name of Pokkie and a girl called Pipiro. They live in Puck, which is a small village located on a continent floating among the clouds – Arges. Their idyllic existence filled with jokes and ends with the arrival of a masked villain – at night, he steals six holy figures from a local temple.

The villain is the archduke of Argos; he is willing to give back the stolen artifacts, but only once he receives a huge ransom – the sum he wants exceeds the capabilities of the humble villagers. The main characters decide to reclaim the treasures on their own – Pokkie wants to do it for fame, while Pipiro is after the money they would get as a reward.

Mechanics

Zwei: The Arges Adventure for PC is a jRPG featuring strong dungeon-crawling elements. The player explores the game world, as well as numerous dungeons, gathering items and completing quests. One controls either Pokkie or Pipiro at a time; the other sibling is controlled by the AI. The player can switch between the characters at any time.

The game places a large emphasis on skirmishes fought in real time and feeling very arcady. Differences between the characters play a significant part while in combat – Pokkie prefers melee combat and Pipiro specializes in spell casting. The game offers a system of combos, allowing the player to chain attacks together.

As in any serious RPG, the player can develop the characters, though the system has an unusual form in Zwei: The Arges Adventure. Defeated enemes drop different kinds of ingredients. One can eat them, which gives a quick, but relatively small increase to the statistics; gathering a larger set of ingredients and bringing them to the cook in the village is another way – the meal they can prepare grants a significantly larger bonus than offered by the sum of ingredients eaten individually.

The experience is diversified by regularly appearing puzzles. Furthermore, the creators prepared a lot of mini-games. Among them, one will find a shooter inspired by old-school shmup games, an arcade game that makes the player faster at typing, and a simple adventure game revolving around the development of an animal accompanying the player during their adventures.

Technical aspects

Zwei: The Arges Adventure for PC comes with alluring 2D visuals presented in a cartoonish graphic style. Compared with the original release (Zwei!!) the game offers higher resolution, support for wide-screen monitors, as well as an improved head-up display.

Last updated on January 17, 2018

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