Review: Metal Max Xeno Reborn
In the course of playing Metal Max Xeno Reborn, I reached the point where I could make a move on a female party member. I did so, and the game told me that the two protagonists lived happily ever after while the rest of humanity died. It then rolled credits and kicked me to the main menu. Cool.
I later got the opportunity to make a move on one of the male party members. I was curious, so I did so and got the same result. And that’s how my rampant bisexuality ended the world.
Like many in the West, I had never experienced a game from the long-running Metal Max series before. While the series has been around since 1991 on the Famicom, it has only rarely reached our shores: Metal Saga in 2006 for PS2 and Metal Max Xeno in 2018 for PS4 and Vita. Xeno didn’t go over so well, so the teams at Kadokawa, Cattle Call, and 24Frame went back to the drawing board and overhauled it into Metal Max Xeno Reborn. Sorry if you bought the original a scant few years ago, I guess.
Metal Max Xeno Reborn (PS4 [Reviewed], PC, Switch)Developer: Kadokawa Games, 24Frame, Cattle CallPublisher: PQubeReleased: June 10, 2022MSRP: $39.99
Metal Max Xeno Reborn is certainly unique in the JRPG sphere, taking place in the crappiest imaginable future. Humanity developed a super-AI called NOAH to help us with all the destruction we were wreaking on the natural environment. NOAH decided that humanity was the problem and went to work wiping us out. I have to say, that’s fair enough. That would probably be the most efficient way of fixing things.
The AI absolutely stomped all over humanity’s collective butt. Then it stomped some more. Just as it’s lined up to shove its foot all the way in, Talis (or whatever you name him) shows up and suddenly becomes the savior
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