Demon Gaze

Dungeon Crawl RPG with an Unusual Twist

Those who've already played Demon Gaze have said it resembles Harvest Moon combined with the original Final Fantasy.

Those who can think back and actually say that they loved the first Final Fantasy game or its GBA remake should definitely fall squarely in the intended demographic of Demon Gaze. This new PS Vita dungeon crawler allows games to control a young man named Oz. With a magical eye capable of sealing away demons, Oz would have enough trouble already if it weren't for the fact that he were expected to form relationships with NPCs left and right.

Spending Money at the Inn

A good portion of the game play involves dungeon crawling and fighting around monsters that gamers find on missions. Immediately after leaving these dungeons though, people will probably want to go back and use their loot at the inn. Rather than having a town and village system like every Adventure of Link clone ever has used, Demon Gaze uses a primary inn that allows players to spend their money and upgrade the party.

On top of this, Oz is expected to form relationships and interact with the NPCs that are in the inn. These interactions form a core part of the game play that actually have helped to separate it from many other anime inspired RPGs. Summoning spells and the like allow players to bring those that they have defeated back. Since Oz can seal demons, when players defeat demons they're able to actually then use them as summoned monsters. This actually has drawn some unnecessary comparisons to the Monster Rancher series, though Demon Gaze doesn't actually focus too much on training or anything to that effect.

Development Information

Kadokawa developed this game, and they're well known by fans of anime and manga. As a result it shouldn't come as any surprise that Kurono was involved with the Demon Gaze spin off media. In fact there's a manga that's being serialized in Dengeki Maoh based on the events in the game. Those who have some ability to collect information explained in this manga may actually be able to put it to use in the game, though its unlikely that this will ever see an official release in any form of western media unfortunately.