Septerra Core had sick world design. The world consists of a core and seven continents that rotate around it in layers, or 'shells'. The people in the top layer are the snobby Chosen who drop all their trout below, to Shell 2, which has been reduced to a barren wasteland thanks to the assholes on shell 1 and 3's nuclear wars, and now they're basically living off the junk from the upper shell. Then you've got a continent where mostly pirates live, there's one with weird-ass aliens and jungles, another one that has two genocidal warring nations on the same shell. The world is either high-tech and pretty or dirty and gritty, depending on where you are. There's criminals, nobles, farmers, prostitutes and whatnot among all the people.
The protagonist, Maya, is a tough gal who grew up as a junk collector on the second shell. Along this epic journey that could rival any Final Fantasy game you make friends and party members from every part of this awesome world. Among these are a robot dog, a cyborg pirate, an engineer who lost both her legs in a war.
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