Operation Babel: New Tokyo Legacy

Critic reviews

• GGameSpew

  Saul Muscat · Jul 04, 2017

  6.0

  For a newcomer to the series, I found the lack of tutorials frustrating, the environments and world to be visually bland, and the gameplay loop not engaging enough to make me want to come back for more. The Playstation Vita (the undisputed home of dungeon crawling JRPGs) has plenty of other offerings in this genre, so unless you’re a die-hard fan of the series, it’s better to look elsewhere.

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• HPHey Poor Player

  Kenny McKee · May 23, 2017

  6.0

  Operation Babel: New Tokyo Legacy wasn’t Experience’s finest dungeon-crawler. Combat had some weird balancing issues that never seemed to fully resolve themselves, detailed Blood Code explanations were nonexistent, and some of the more obscure Abyss puzzles border on exasperating rather than exhilarating. But Operation Babel isn’t objectively a bad game. In fact, I still had a lot of fun with it in spite of its flaws. If you’re new to this genre or are looking for something more fine-tuned, then this might not be your first choice. But for the rest of you out there, giving this a shot might not be a bad idea. After all, New Tokyo isn’t going to save itself!

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• WWccftech.com

  Kai Powell · May 10, 2017

  7.5

  Operation Babel feels too similar to its predecessor with a weaker cameo-focused story & reused assets but exceeds it in every other aspect of gameplay. The new subclass system provides extra control on party depth.

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• RSRPG Site

  Adam Vitale · May 09, 2017

  7.0

  As a dungeon crawler, Operation Babel is basically more-of-the-same. It's a competent entry into the genre, even if it's not a terribly interesting one. Fans of dungeon crawlers won't mind adding it to their collection, but it certainly doesn't stand out from the rest.

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• ZZTGD

  Jae Lee · Jun 01, 2015

  6.5

  Perhaps it’s harsh for me to expect the same kind of quality or improvements over Demon Gaze given that Operation Abyss is a remake of earlier titles but given the simple fact that I’m playing this after thoroughly enjoying DG, I feel that I must. When it’s all said and done, Operation Abyss isn’t a bad game but it certainly doesn’t live up to the high standards set by Demon Gaze.

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• CCubed3

  Drew Hurley · Jul 01, 2017

  3.0

  Operation Babel: New Tokyo Legacy is pretty much a complete shambles. It opens with a mass amount of confusion and builds on that until the poor player is completely overwhelmed, to the point that the only ones who will find any enjoyment here are those willing to invest a ton of time and effort to bust through the unapproachable nature of the game. The problem is, even those that persevere will find little worth their effort thanks to a poor story, lots of repetitive gameplay, exasperating mechanics, and mediocre dungeons.

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