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Well, as someone who was around for SE:B, this already had my interest. But I kinda gotta say, watching that trailer... this kinda seems like a sequel/spinoff to another game I haven't played, especially with that subtitle. What happened in the original Sacred Earth? Do I have to play it first to find out what Garenia is and who the old friend is supposed to be and who the main characters are?

That's the kind of vibe I'm getting. Maybe it's just because I know that SE:M and SE:D and SE:B also exist (and its even older predecessor, SE:Z, which I have never played but remember seeing a video of years back), I dunno. But then again, knowing all of that history also makes me know that there's nothing that comes before it - and yet looking at that Steam page description still gives me the itch that I'm missing something anyway. Could be the lack of character names, perhaps?