![]() ![]() Yes, there are jokes and lighthearted moments aplenty, it kind of wouldn’t be a JRPG without ’em. I don’t mean blood and guts and nudity either. As I mentioned, the game has a pretty great script, and that extends to the story itself, which is probably much more of a mature one than you might be used to. War is coming…Ĭhained Echoes’ story is a familiar one. If you love the genre as it was, keep reading. And that’s not all, as Chained Echoes completes the package with top notch… everything, including some of the best writing in an RPG that I’ve ever seen. It features visuals that are decidedly terrific, though rooted in the past. Those are JRPG’s embraced the past, while serving up modern, lavish takes on legacy visuals.Ĭhained Echoes, from indie developer Matthias Linda and publisher Deck13 Spotlight, is a game along those lines. In the last few years, we’ve seen the arrival of games like Octopath Traveler and its sequel. Pretty much gone are the cute sprites of the past, as well as the traditional gameplay. ![]() That might seem like a strange statement to some reading this, since Japanese Role-Playing Games have pretty much always been a pretty big genre.īut for those fans who prefer the genre as it was, say on an SNES or PSOne, today’s games just aren’t the same. ![]() It’s been a while, but it seems as though the JRPG genre is ever-so-slowly re-adopting its former glory. Matthias Linda and Deck13 Spotlight’s incredible JRPG Chained Echoes is a ‘retro’ gem. Turn the clock back RPG fans, all the way back to the 90s. ![]()
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