In a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it second throughout immediately’s Nintendo Direct Companion Showcase, you could have caught a glimpse at a cute-looking RPG referred to as One other Eden Begins. Coming to Change 2 and Change 1 this summer time, it options time journey, turn-based fight, ten totally different endings, and New Recreation+.
What if we additionally advised you that the creator was none apart from Masato Kato, one of many writers of acclaimed ’90s Squaresoft RPGs Chrono Set off and Xenogears, in addition to the director of Chrono Cross? And that the sport’s music consists by Yasunori Mitsuda, who additionally labored on all three of these video games? The items are beginning to fall into place now.
Yep, whereas it might have been a footnote throughout the Direct, this appears like a giant one for traditional RPG followers. Plus, whereas it isn’t instantly clear from the trailer, that is almost-definitely a remodeling of Kato’s free-to-play cellular RPG One other Eden: The Cat Past Time and House, which got here out in 2017 and continues to be ongoing.
Followers on-line appear to assume so, highlighting that Begins seems to solely cowl the primary “arc” of the cellular sport, whereas highlighting a number of the variations, together with a number of character redesigns.
Happening throughout a number of timelines, Aldo’s youthful sister is kidnapped by the Beast King. Pressured to pursue them, the younger hero finds himself falling by way of spacetime, the place he awakens 800 years sooner or later.
As Aldo, you will collect 18 totally different companions, together with an android, a feisty hunter, and a noble frog samurai. Look, you are pondering it, not us (Okay, perhaps us too) to assist traverse the timelines and save the world. Mix in some strategic turn-based fight and you’ve got a JRPG that feels ripped proper out of the SNES and PSOne period.
So, this appears to be following the Octopath Traveler 0 formulation of remodeling a cellular favorite to take away the gacha parts and make it match on dwelling consoles. We’ll have to attend for extra particulars, however for now, this seems promising.
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