Xuan Yuan Sword V: Talk it out!

Sword swinging teen Lu Chengxuan’s body holds a dark, terrifying power. Overwhelming enough to kill loved ones. Enough to see him labelled a monster and cast out of his village. Enough that even when he ends up in another world—Shanhai—he still can’t escape the crushing guilt weighing on his chest, and is wary around others. Yay. Another haunted RPG hero to sling on the pile. Great. Haven’t we suffered through enough of those already? We have, but few RPGs handle their party’s troubled pasts the way Xuan Yuan Sword 5 does. To put it simply, they’re trusted to not be idiots. Lu Chengxuan is struggling, but he wants to learn and grow and so whenever he’s given the opportunity, he does his best to listen to and then take on the advice freely given by his newfound friends. His change is small, organic. The moment he learns to control his powers isn’t some grand cutscene full of yelling and magic powers, but a quiet night with friends. Experimenting. Learning he can flex it like a muscle,…