Amazon opens preorders for Launch Edition of Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology

Amazon has put up a listing for the Launch Edition of Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology.

[Fist4achin]

Ive never played this series and im interested. Anyone have a quick opinion/comparison?

[Tru80zGamer]

I had the original on the DS and made my way through a good portion of the game. I will be picking up this remake and look forward to diving back in. The story is interesting, classic turn based gameplay plenty of meaty content an underrated gem. Reminds me of old school PS1/SNES jrpgs, also a slight Chrono Trigger feel plotwise.

[Fist4achin]

Cool. Thanks

[Pookandpie]

It's one of the best RPGs on the original DS (and I don't say this lightly). You bounce back and forth between two timelines to find a culprit who is messing with events in each to cause the world to spiral further out of control. Storytelling is a simple affair for most of the game, with a lot of it being the world building that occurs between two timelines that you have to solve in order to overcome problems. Worldbuilding is on the level of a light Trails in the Sky- visiting characters at different points of the story and in different timelines will oftentimes result in different dialogue, with the side quests being quite insightful to a wide variety of events and background characters. You'll elicit a lot of responses comparing this to Chrono Trigger, but there's a lot more realistic fantasy elements to it due to its focus on war, military, and world building (high fantasy, I think it's called? I'm iffy on the term. Like, Lord of the Rings is more of a realistic fantasy approach than Hyperdimension Neptunia, lol, is what I mean. Hopefully that hyperbole gets my intention across)

Combat takes place on a 3x3 grid and, for a lot of the game, you will compile damage by pushing multiple enemies into the same panel on the grid to do damage to multiple foes in one attack. You can also pass a turn to chain more consecutive turns later, have a special meter, etc.. I don't really have a solid comparison for combat (the *view* of the combat is like Mega Man Battle Network, but the gameplay of the combat is JRPG turn-chain systems with a light strategy element in combat due to the presentation of the grid).

The music is phenomenal. Best on the DS, bar none.

[Fist4achin]

Thanks. I'm going to have to check this out