Dragoneer's Aria review at 1-up.

"NIS America's role-playing games have a reputation as overbearingly Japanese-y (think Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia and the Atelier Iris series), so you'd be forgiven for dismissing Dragoneer's Aria as another manga-style misadventure. And sure, the game's fruity protagonist doesn't help matters: As Valen Kessler, a girlish French-braided warrior with pouty red lips (er, do I even have to clarify he's a guy?), you're tasked with a rather manly burden: protecting the world's gentle dragons from evildoers.

But while the setting may be a clichéd fantasyland and the hero overwhelmingly androgynous, the game's realistic visual style seems more inspired by Korean MMOs than Japanese anime. That's no accident: Juno Jeong, art director for the Korean PC megahit Lineage, lent his services to Dragoneer's Aria's development. While Valen's design is certainly regrettable, Jeong brings a refreshingly "grown-up" style to his three traveling companions: Euphe, an idealistic healer, Mary, a foul-mouthed young pirate captain who wields a gun as big as she is, and Ruslan, a highly cynical Elf."

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