Gothic
Gothic is an Action-RPG video game that takes you to medieval Era and tells the tales about a Massive War between Humans and Orcs. The war seems lost and because of that, King sends criminals to Ore mines to extract Magical Ore to build magical weapons. According to the story-line, the player gets thrown out in the Miners Colony and belongs to the Brotherhood, one of three main groups in the mining colonies. With an ultimate goal of getting out of the colony, player struggles and finds himself fighting against both the Orcs and the king’s army. The game tasks you to complete a number of epic quests, slay hordes of wild animals, monsters and other enemies, earn skill points and spend them to enhance your skills, learn about different trades and achieve the highest levels in the game. Gothic offers both one handed and dual handed weapons and lets you choose between different types of weapons, select your own special character and join any of the camps and keep on struggling for your goals. Gothic offers a brilliantly fantastic interactive environments and lets you hunt for animals in order to get food, heal your wounds with the help of wild plants, explore your surroundings and enjoy a real life-like environment. With a totally action packed gameplay, a great storyline, great visual details and lot more to discover, Gothic is one amazing game to play and enjoy. Do give it try if you haven’t played it yet, you’ll definitely be amazed at what this marvel has to offer.
#1 Dante’s Inferno
Dante’s Inferno is a fantastic Single and Multiplayer Hack and Slash and Action-Adventure video game by Visceral Games and Artificial Mind and Movement. The game features the protagonist Dante, a Crusader laced up with his primary weapon Death Scythe and the Holy Cross. According to the Storyline, Dante goes on a mission to eliminate the Hell’s Minions and engages into epic Combats, Platform and environmental Puzzles. The story takes another turn when the King goes on to search for a Holy Relic that is hidden under the folds of mystic environments. The king entrusts Dante with all the prisoners but Dante kills the Prisoners and the King sends him to find the Holy Relic as to punish him. Dante embarks on an epic journey to find the Holy Relic and reaches down to the Palace of King Saladin where he gets stabbed multiple times by the Assassins. Wounded badly, Dante returns back to Florence, Italy to his Father and his one true Love Beatrice, but instead finds them dead. Beatrice’s Soul appears in front of him and tells him all about how she and Dante’s father got killed. Dante Vows to revenge and descends into an opening into the ground at the spot where Hell and Earth borders. Dante reaches to the Hell’s Gate where he encounters the Minions of Lucifer, starts killing them selflessly, encounters Lucifer and kills him after a series of fast-paced and Action-filled melee combats. Dante then finds the Holy Relic and the game concludes. With a very interesting story, state of the art visuals and a super thrilling game-play, Dante’s Inferno is a wonderful game to play.
#2 Conception 2: Children of the Seven Stars
Conception 2: Children of the Seven Stars by Spike Chunsoft is an Action-RPG video game. The game focuses on the character named as Wake Archus who becomes the ultimate Monster Hunter and the savior of the realm after finding out the Star God Sign on his hand and the death of his sister by the monsters. Wake gets into the school of individuals like him and starts enhancing his abilities to get deep into the Dusk Circles (The place where monsters appear) and kill the monsters. Because of the high amount of Ether in his body, his ability to go into the labyrinths of Dusk Circles and using the Star Energy makes him God’s Gift and he becomes famous all around. By creating the Star Child with the help of an S-rank female student, Wake ultimately gets able to eliminate all the monsters and dark forces once and for all. You are required to act as Wake Archus and complete the game objectives. With a number of great quests, amazing combats with monsters, hardcore action and thrill based game-play and wonderful visuals, Conception 2: Children of the Seven Stars is a great RPG game to play and enjoy.
#3 Legend of Mana
Legend of Mana is a wonderful Single and multiplayer Action-RPG video game by Square. The game offers a non-linear game-play and lets you engage yourself into real-time battles with enemies, allows you to manipulate your surroundings simply by using the Land make System, Enjoy going on epic quests and have loads of fun. Legend of Mana is the Fourth main inclusion to the series of Mana that made presence in the markets after the popular Seiken Densetsu 3. The game is set in High Fantasy and allows you to be an unnamed hero who goes on epic quests and tries to restore the Land of Fa’Diel and the Tree of Mana. With its unique gameplay style, Legend of Mana allows you to shape the world around you as you like by using the unique Land Make System, generate and build new Regions of land, enjoy Non-Linear gameplay in epic quests and enjoy it to the limits. With millions of copies sold worldwide, Legend of Mana is a true predecessor of all the games of this specific genre and gameplay style. Legend of Mana offers beautiful visuals, addictive gameplay and loads of fun things to discover.
#4 Toukiden: The Age of Demons
Toukiden: The Age of Demons is a great replacement of Monster Hunter. This radiant Action-Adventure and RPG video game is a Sony Exclusive and takes you to an amazing Medieval setting of Ancient Japan. The game sets you up as a Warrior named Mononofu, a specialized Ninja like Warrior and the ultimate weapon against the Hellish Demons known as Oni. Just like Monster Hunter, Lord of Arcana etc. your task is to fight of the Demons, slay them and craft weapons and other items with their horns and bones etc. Toukiden: The Age of Demons offers a really unique combat system and mostly features melee combats and forces you into amazing head on rivalries. With superbly written storyline, well balanced mechanics, super cool visuals and an immersive game-play, Tokiden: The Age of Demons is a wonderful alternative to Monster Hunter.
#5 Guacamelee!
Guacamelee! Is a fantastic Action-Adventure, Beat em’ Up, Hack and Slash and RPG video game that features the player character named as Juan who embarks on a journey to save the El President’s Daughter. Juan is basically a wrestler type of character who uses punches and special skills to eliminate his enemies and to defeat the bosses. Guacamelee! Enables you to use grapple attack on your enemies and once they are in close range, kick them out for good using your iron hands. This brilliant fighting and beat em’ up game mostly focuses on melee combats and allows you to enjoy a side-scrolling game-play, with amazingly well designed mechanics and visuals. Every enemy kill awards you with coins that you can use to buy upgrades and stuff. With an amazing amount of challenging puzzles, ability to switch between the land of dead and the land of the living, fast-paced action and thrill filled game-play and all the wonderful things, Guacamelee! Is one amazing game to play.
#6 Bastion
Bastion is a Wonderful Action-RPG video game developed by Supergiant Games and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The game lets you control The Kid, move though floating platforms in a fantasy-based environment, fight enemies, collect Shards of Rocks, Use magical powers and different weapons (Swords, Hammers, knives etc.) in epic enemy encounters, explore and solve puzzles in World of Caelondia and enjoy the ultimate fun. With wonderful graphics, and challenging game-play, Bastion is a wonderful game to play. One brilliant feature of the game is the Dynamic Voice-over presented in a beautiful 2D environment and the Isometric Camera view makes it even more involving. For all the hardcore Action-RPG enthusiasts, Bastion offers hours of pure entertainment, so do try this one out.