Green rewards the party with optimal damage. A handful of other small tweaks fold into the fray later, but it's still simple in a subtly brilliant way.įights begin with the overdrive arrow in orange, which doesn't bestow snazzy buffs. It’s kind of like an Active Reload mechanic but for your skill choices make the right actions every turn and you're rewarded with extra powerful hits. The crux of combat boils down to keeping a little arrow in the upper left corner within the safe zone, green, slotted between orange and red. Chained Echoes plainly lays it all out, but my habitual overthinking refused to let the system be as simple and uniquely compelling as it is. Something something "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" remains evergreen advice, but that's no excuse to stop iterating on traditional turn-based formulas and heavy-handed punishments for picking the wrong fight.Īs enemies lined up to deliver their first few butt-whoopings, I found myself miserably confused by the overdrive system and irritated by UI elements that didn't immediately click. While Chained Echoes' artistic sparkle is captivating, I'm more endeared to the journey thanks to systems not solely focused on the most sacred parts of old RPGs. Sometimes you just really wanna see how swish a new skill looks, and things go to hell. You can explore the world on foot, while inside your mechs, or with the help of your very own airship, helping you find places that every RPG lover dreams of! big towns, dangerous dungeons, and tons of mini-games.That's no knock on Chained Echoes being too brutal, though.You can freely switch between them in the middle of battle. You can fight your enemies on foot or if they try to escape to the sky on your very own mechs burning them to ashes with its laser beam.Can you put history back into the hands of men? The choices you make throughout the game will impact the fate of the continent and its ordinary citizens.
The war-torn continent of Valandis has been in chaos for several generations now, manipulated by foolish power-hungry tyrants.Fast-Paced & Turn-Based Battles: While it sounds contradictory in this case it doesn’t you won’t be facing random encounters, battles take place directly where you engaged the enemy, and characters execute the orders they are given immediately.In order to bring an end to the war between the continent’s three most influential kingdoms. Chained Echoes is a story-driven pixel art-themed turn-based JRPG developed by Deck13, where you travel around the continent of Valandis where you will see a vast array of diverse landscapes spanning from wild-tanned archipelagos, sunken cities, and forgotten dungeons.
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