Geo Mythica

My final game of 2025, and a great way to end the year. Geo Mythica is a nerdy, geography loving throwback to the Saturday morning cartoons of yesteryear. The story follows Gio, an always-positive high school football player, as he gets mixed up in a global conspiracy with the megacorporation Sur Nova, and these strange glowing shards that seem to give people power... at a cost. Along the way, he meets a variety of people and other companions from around the world to help overcome this threat to humanity. Everything about the characters, stories, and reconstruction of the Earth is just so earnest. It's not some super deep narrative that'll blow your mind with its philosophy, but it's a darn good time that'll make you smile. The little edutainment touches here and there are delightful. You have to learn the appropriate languages in the appropriate cities, and you'll need to convert your money to the right currency type. These aren't that big of barriers, but they're opportunities to learn just a little bit more about the location. There's various geography quizzes, and one section even teaches you a bit of basic boolean logic. It's never a major focus or hindrance, though. I'd say it's mostly a window dressing that furthers the Saturday morning cartoon vibes, though you may pick a thing or two up. Combat plays out as a throwback action JRPG. I think Seiken Densetsu 3 is the most comparable game I can think of. You could also look at it as a NES version of the FF7 remake games. You move and attack like a top down brawler, but you have the ability to issue commands for yourself and party members via a menu system that pauses the game. It works out quite well. There's a good amount to think about too: you have aggro to manage, charged up attacks to interrupt, and weaknesses to target. I had a lot of fun with the combat, and I think it hit a good level of depth for the 10-15 hour runtime. I think that covers everything I really wanted to say about the game. It's criminally overlooked for how cool and unique of a game it is. I'd definitely recommend giving it a shot if you're at all interested!

A great little rpg that manages to pull together a decent story with some really interesting gameplay, highly recommend if you're looking for underrated indie games to play

worth playing and even attempting to 100%. i enjoyed it a lot!

Muy buen juego.

cool globetrotting action-ish jrpg, kinda plays like ff7r? edutainment in disguise but that's good actually. really solid overall, my only beef with it is that it gets kinda mashy towards the end once you figure out how to effectively rip the game apart

excellent game in the vein of an old school action JRPG

pretty guuuud

[h3] Uma surpreendente aventura mágica no mundo real[/h3] Geo Mythica é um jogo que me pegou na demo, o sistema de batalha me lembra clássicos da serie Mana, mas não deixa de ser diferente. Misturar tempo real com sistema de turnos não deixa o sistema menos complexos ([spoiler]os desafios finais estão aí para provar[/spoiler]). Apesar de curta, a história é divertida e o Gio é um protagonista diferente, que cresce ao longo da sua jornada e aprende um pouquinho a ser mais pé no chão. Confesso que inicialmente, o sistema de moedas e línguas é interessante, mas em alguns momentos pode ser meio entediante de lidar. Outro ponto negativo é que o final é um pouco cansativo, mas nada que atrapalhe a sessão. As músicas são incríveis, e honestamente, lutar contra o Abaporu foi o ponto alto da aventura.

classic game takes place in the 90s. Chrono trigger like gameplay as well. thumbs up!