13 Sentinels Aegis Rim: The Best Way to Navigate Its Nonlinear Stories
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim'stitle does not lie — all thirteen characters who pilot the titular Sentinel robots are playable in the game. Each character has a unique story centered around how they came to pilot their Sentinel and participate in the game's climactic battle, with the game's deep lore and many mysteries slowly unraveling as players make their way through them. However, the nonlinear storytelling and sheer number of characters of 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim could be intimidating for first-time players.
Luckily, there is no 'wrong answer'. The thirteen stories can be experienced in any order, although some remain hidden behind locks that require viewing certain scenes from other characters' tales or completing certain battles in the game's real-time strategy combat mode. Plus, although the stories are nonlinear, 13 Sentinels does offer a 'timeline mode' that catalogues unlocked events in chronological order. There are, however, a few good places to start for players who may be experiencing the game for the first time — perhaps via the newly released Nintendo Switch version — and have a hard time deciding which character's story to tackle first.
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Juro Kurabe and Iori Fuyusaka feature prominently on the game's cover. They're not exactly the central protagonists — all thirteen characters are given roughly equal focus — but their stories are some of the first available. Unlike some later characters, players don't have to do anything special to unlock Juro and Iori's stories, as they are available at the beginning of the game. While their stories are not completely without locks, their locks are generally easy to complete, such as opening three Mystery Files in the game's Analysis
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