The Dokapon series has been a sleeper hit in both Japan and America for a long time. It's been revered in Japan as a gem for decades, but American releases have been few and far between and were largely limited to portable devices outside of an Atlus release of Dokapon Kingdom on the PS2. Thankfully, in 2023, Sting Entertainment released Dokapon Kingdom on both the PC and Switch with revamped graphics and that opened the door to a whole new era for the series. The third entry in the series, Ikari no Tetsuken has now been released as Sword of Fury on PC via Steam.
This was the first PS1 entry and one that features sharper 2D graphics than the ones featured in the Super Famicom entries beforehand and very much feels like a throwback now given that we've seen so many kinds of 2D art in games and we're getting into more PS1-era visuals getting seen in modern-day games, resulting in this feeling a more modern-looking than one might expect. Like the other entries in the series, such as Dokapon Kingdom, this is a blend of a board game with JRPG and a ton of fun to play...
