There’s not much variety to be found in exploring yet another collection of hallways and classrooms that are nigh indistinguishable from those that you just cleared on the last floor. These exploration portions of Monark can be thrilling to experience, especially given that you never know what may be waiting around the corner for you, though it feels like these sections get a little repetitive with time. All along, your Madness gauge is continuously creeping up one percent at a time, and it’s game over if it maxes out.
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Perhaps you need to say the right thing to get them to move, or you need to piece together a series of notes scattered around to learn a locker combination. The students who couldn’t make it out in time are now “Unsettled”, and you often have to find ways to navigate around them or somehow communicate with them to get through a door or up some stairs. When you’re in a building that hasn’t been cleared out yet, you’ll be forced to trawl through the dark mists in a gameplay style that feels one-part survival horror and one-part puzzle game. The few survivors have barricaded themselves into the few remaining safe places, while the ever-encroaching mist threatens to waft in from all sides. Nobody can leave and most parts of the school have been overrun by a mysterious mist, which slowly causes madness if anyone spends too long breathing it in. You’re placed in the role of an amnesiac high school student who wakes up in Shin Mikado Academy, an institution that seems to be struggling with a paranormal problem. Monark cuts right to the chase in getting its story going, skipping any semblance of exposition or setup in favor of just tossing you in and letting you figure things out as you go. It's definitely rough around the edges, but we think this is still worth giving a fair look. Monark has certainly managed to deliver on that promise, as this is a title that retains the dark vibe and somewhat philosophical focus of those older titles, while bringing in some interesting new ideas that help it to stand on its own. Not even a year ago, FuRyu revealed a curious new game called Monark that was heavily marketed as being the lovechild of several ex-Atlus staff who were instrumental in the early days of the Shin Megami Tensei and Persona series. Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked)
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