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ARIA CHRONICLE
Game Overview
For those who want to enjoy turn-based RPGs properly, or experience all the entertainment elements including high quality stories, monomyths, action-packed battles, adventures, and suspense, please give yourself a try on ARIA CHRONICLE, the game that makes you feel excited just by hearing.

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Nyanco's Review
+ This game features deep turn-based battles & colorful anime artworks! ヽ(=´▽`=)ノ

[1] Intro
ARIA CHRONICLE. This game is a party-based anime RPG made by STUDIO N9 and published by CREST. The developer is a veteran illustrator from Korea. He had a dream of making his own game for a long time, and finally achieved it. The global publisher CREST is a game/animation content/IP producing company based in Japan and Korea. If you have been interested in anime character games, you may remember that ARIA CHRONICLE showed its prototype and release news at BIC 2018, TGS 2019, and Comic Market 96. You just get to know this game now? No worries, let's have a look at it with Nyanco-chan!

[2] Game Experience

ARIA CHRONICLE is a dungeon crawl RPG featuring colorful anime artworks. Also, the voice acting is really impressive. As mentioned earlier in the above intro, the publisher CREST has focused on their activity for creating anime/game/music IP content. We can guess that they supported to find a good voice actor/actress pool for this game. Moreover, the main job of the developer is the game illustrator, so the anime character design quality is also excellent. Throughout the gameplay, cool animation artwork and voice acting will definitely delight the player.

Gameplay mechanics is similar to Darkest Dungeon, but ARIA CHRONICLE's one is a more simplified casual type, and adds some interesting twists where you can enjoy rich stories storytelling, challenging turn-base battle, interesting party customization, and procedurally generated random dungeon exploration. Gameplay certainly provides a fun experience for players. However, there are some shortcomings. The user interface is not intuitive. Some bugs overlap here, so the game sometimes doesn't display the content properly. In some important quests, repetitive grinding is required and the battle balance is uneven. The description of skill, item, and game system is somewhat unclear, but the story related translation is not bad. The game is well designed overall.

[3] Pros (+) & Cons (-)
  • [+] Pleasant Characters
  • [+] Colorful Anime Artworks
  • [+] Deep Turn-Based Battles
  • [+] Very Good Voice Acting
  • [-] User Interface
  • [-] Difficulty Curve
  • [-] Needs Grinding
  • [-] Battle/Class Balance

[4] Verdict (Score): Game 8.5/10, Translation 8/10
ARIA CHRONICLE. It's a pretty interesting anime character game. Character artwork and voice acting are of very good quality, and game mechanics keep the basics of a turn-based dungeon crawler well. This game is easy to play, but some sections are out of balance, and have absurd difficulty curves. Nevertheless, gameplay is addictive and challenging. Players can be immersed in this game, have a great experience and have a great time. This game is designed so. If the developer can polish/improve the game system/balance, including the user interface, based on user feedback, it would definitely be a better game. Of course, it's a game worth trying even now. If you are an anime game lover, you should not miss this game. Highly Recommended!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1229900/ARIA_CHRONICLE/

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