Spotted Garden Eel Adventure

Square Enix's Team Asano wants you to experiment with weapons you might not otherwise choose in its upcoming action RPG

To celebrate Cool Sword Day, Polygon caught up with Adventure Time's Adam Muto to unpack the origins of the Grass Sword and its evolution into Fern.

Descent into Avernus is a great D&D adventure that was forced to add elements to tie in with Baldur's Gate 3, but the game came out four years later.

HD-2D, the retro-cool art style spearheaded by Square Enix and imitated by many others, was originally built as a way to pay homage to classic Super NES-era role-playing games while also making them look distinctly modern. And to that end, it's been used exclusively for RPGs like the Octopath Traveler series and the Live A Live remake. The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales, then, represents the next big evolution of this concept, showing that the art style can just as easily apply to other classic genres--this time, the top-down action-adventure game.I played about two hours of The Ad