Make visuals great again and radiance
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The combat does unfortunately lack depth, though.
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The controls are solid and the performance is better than what I’ve seen of the mobile versions, though the Switch does have its occasional frame stutters too. On the other side of things is the action combat. I’m usually not someone to complain if a game has too much reading, but I don’t understand how Eternal Radiance can make the player read so much and yet still only offer the most formulaic plot possible, led by three pleasant yet unexciting characters. This game likes to do the party-conversations that are common in the Tales series, but they often come off as incredibly trite – marvelling at the beauty of the landscape, or debating whether a potato is a vegetable or not. These play out how you’d expect characters take their time to make small talk in between plot beats, and plenty of time is wasted. Eternal Radiance’s narrative weakness is compunded by the fact that it has more dialogue text than most JRPGs, owing to its visual novel segments.
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It’s the kind of story so laden with cliché that it’s a prime target for the kind of parody that you’d get out of something like The Longest 5 Minutes or Evoland. In her quest to retrieve the artefact, Celeste teams up with and emotionless mercenary named Valana and Ruby, the optimistic mage, to learn more about the shadowy organisation behind the theft of artefacts to rectify the balance of power in the world itself. The game begins on the first test – she must retrieve an artefact – but it goes awry when a mysterious white-haired girl steals it and runs off into the far distance. She’s excited to join the Ashen Order, a hegemonic army keeping the peace in a generic fantasy landscape by controlling the influence of sinister, monster-summoning artefacts. The sticking point is going to be whether you’ll be satisfied with a game that never aims to be better than good enough, and there’s always the question hanging over the game of whether you be strung along to the next moment, or whether you will finally become bored with it all?Ĭeleste is a knight-in-training and all-round shonen protagonist, who means well, but has the flaw of being close-minded. And for what it’s worth, it’s all fine – gaining levels is engaging, the art is pleasant and colourful, the writing has some chuckle-worthy moments. The combat, characters and story are standard. Visualnoveler’s mashup of action combat and visual novel is a perfectly competent game, but for hours at a time I’d realise I wasn’t being surprised, or excited, or challenged. I don’t know how many people are out there waiting for yet another action JRPG that plays exactly to convention, but Eternal Radiance is just that.