
Yuno can eat at the various local restaurants for stat boosts and to increase her friendship with the Guardians. Here the player can indulge in many side activities. In there, Yuno can freely move around the city. XIMENDINGĪ good part of the game is spent in the human world, with Ximending posing as the game hub. Each of them comprehends one or two major battle sequences fought in Youshanding, the Kunlunian version of Ximending. The main cast is in fact really likable and offers an interesting commentary to the game’s events. This, however, doesn’t prevent the player from enjoying the bantering between Yumo and the Guardians. Why a goofy ceramic bear hosts a powerful deity? What caused this multidimensional incident?Ĭharacters follow standard anime tropes and don’t really stray from them. It manages to create a sense of mystery that engrosses the player. The plot is simple and linear but overall functional to the whole experience. All while helping the citizens in their daily struggles. The game follows our protagonists’ attempt to unravel the mystery behind these strange occurrences. This more or less is the initial premise of Dusk Diver. With the divine powers at her disposal, Yuno will help the Guardians to defend Ximending from the increasingly vicious monsters. At the same time, the Chaos Beasts that inhabit Kunlun attempts to break into the human world. She makes contact with one of the guardian deities of Ximending, Leo, and partially absorbs his powers. And that’s when an ordinary high schooler, Yuno, accidentally gets into the breach. These two worlds are separated, but now the barrier between them has weakened. In Ximending lies one of the many points of contact between the human world and the spirit dimension, Kunlun. This time, for a refreshing change of pace, the game is set in the Ximending District of Taipei, Taiwan. And when we think of anime style, our minds directly go to Japan. The developers, JFI Games and Jera, opted to give their game a traditional anime style. Dusk Diver is a flashy Beat ’em Up with an urban fantasy setting.
