Japanese developer Sting has generally flown under the radar to this point. For the past 10 years, their domain has been almost exclusively portable handhelds like the Game Boy Advance and the PlayStation Portable. Their games have marketing-unfriendly titles… like Gungnir: Inferno of the Demon Lance and the War of Heroes (yes, that’s a real name). So you could be forgiven for never having heard of their Dept. Heaven series, which is so epic that it skipped from Episode IV all the way to Episode IX. Consider this a quick primer.
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Dept. Heaven has spanned multiple games now, starting with Riviera: The Promised Land, and continuing through Yggdra Union, Knights in the Nightmare, and now Gungnir. Common themes include a war in heaven and on earth, demons, racism, and very angry gods. Main characters frequently lead rebellions against very large empires, only to discover that their own movements are just as dubious.
