Radiant Historia Perfect Chronology

[winb83]

I'm pretty pumped for this game. Ironically I have the original Radiant Historia and just never played it but this fully voiced remake seems like a good place to get into it. Time to dust off the old 3DS and charge it. Haven't played this thing in a year so hopefully the battery is ok.

 

[KatieGotAzzHairs]

I’m getting it! Never played the first, but it sounds exciting. Maybe I’ll stop playing devil survivor 2 for the 5th time and reading Fire Emblem supports over and over again and use my 3ds for something different.

 

[Thanos]

Probably one of the best rpgs on the DS.

 

[Doomsday]

Extremely overrated. All of the time jumps are spoon-fed so it kills all suspense and exploration. Can't do A? Time jump and do B then time jump back to do A. All the sense of exploration, decision making and freedom that Chrono Trigger is known for (which made the blueprint for which this game took a page) is completely gone in Radiant Histora. You know exactly what you have to do all the time. Chrono Trigger was perfect in that it was a linear game that made you feel completely free, Radiant Histora never gives you that feeling.

 

[winb83]

Extremely overrated. All of the time jumps are spoon-fed so it kills all suspense and exploration. Can't do A? Time jump and do B then time jump back to do A. All the sense of exploration, decision making and freedom that Chrono Trigger is known for (which made the blueprint for which this game took a page) is completely gone in Radiant Histora. You know exactly what you have to do all the time. Chrono Trigger was perfect in that it was a linear game that made you feel completely free, Radiant Histora never gives you that feeling.

This game is not like Chrono Trigger though. In playing it a few hours it's a linear story told non-sequentially. It involves trial and error at branch points where you figure out which is the proper route by assembling the ideal outcome from all the different routes.

It's more like the Zero Escape series way of thinking than Chrono Trigger. It's like a maze that if you take a wrong path and fail you can reset and try again.

 

[Doomsday]

This game is not like Chrono Trigger though. In playing it a few hours it's a linear story told non-sequentially. It involves trial and error at branch points where you figure out which is the proper route by assembling the ideal outcome from all the different routes.

It's more like the Zero Escape series way of thinking than Chrono Trigger. It's like a maze that if you take a wrong path and fail you can reset and try again.

It was compared to it when it first came out. It's trash though like I said because it's so cut-and-dry that there is almost no point to the "choices" or looking for an ideal outcome. It might as well be a western RPG with how straightforward it is dispute how ambitious it's trying to be.

 

[winb83]

It was compared to it when it first came out. It's trash though like I said because it's so cut-and-dry that there is almost no point to the "choices" or looking for an ideal outcome. It might as well be a western RPG with how straightforward it is dispute how ambitious it's trying to be.

It not being a game that doesn't offer much in the way of choice doesn't make it trash by default though. You didn't say it was trash based off it's own merits but off a false comparison you heard.

 

[Doomsday]

It not being a game that doesn't offer much in the way of choice doesn't make it trash by default though. You didn't say it was trash based off it's own merits but off a false comparison you heard.

That is being trash off of it's own merits. I was merely explaining why I mentioned CT. Radiant Historia is trash and overrated. It's a barebones western RPG.

 

[Champion]

Already played this on DS so I'm gonna pass this time. Its piff though...probably a Top 5 DS rpg and that's saying a lot.

 

[winb83]

Great game but the time travel mechanic is annoying. The moment I start getting into the plot of one timeline I am forced to jump to the other timeline.

 

[Why-Fi]

picking this up today finally

 

[Doomsday]

Great game but the time travel mechanic is annoying. The moment I start getting into the plot of one timeline I am forced to jump to the other timeline.

Exactly.

 

[winb83]

Exactly.

I'm at the end of the game now and honestly I forgot what timeline I did what in because they all revolve around the same characters. It's an interesting concept but they didn't really do much with it. The characters behave mostly the same in either timeline. This is a very linear game. There's only one way to do the things you're required to do and the plot mostly solves it's own problems as you progress.

 

[Why-Fi]

I'm at the end of the game now and honestly I forgot what timeline I did what in because they all revolve around the same characters. It's an interesting concept but they didn't really do much with it. The characters behave mostly the same in either timeline. This is a very linear game. There's only one way to do the things you're required to do and the plot mostly solves it's own problems as you progress.

thats exactly what doomsday said lol

 

[Tetris v2.0]

Just copped this in the Atlus sale on 3ds, last day to take advantage