
You know that when a fight looks like this, it'll be good.Ĭhrono Trigger and Final Fantasy 6 are the most obvious comparisons you can draw to Chained Echoes, but if you want a slightly deeper cut, you’ll probably see more of Xenogears in there. Already, it sits alongside the Press Turn system from MegaTen and Persona as my favourite way of doing JRPG combat – high praise, indeed. You can’t go too slow otherwise you’ll debuff, you can’t go too fast otherwise you’ll leave yourself wide open. It’s a formula that comes tantalizingly close to fulfilling the promises of the active-time battle mechanic from Final Fantasy 7 and 8 a union of turn-based tactical forward-planning and the thrill of real-time action, realised with aplomb. Over-reach and over-perform, and your party will leave itself vulnerable to crits from whatever oversized enemy you’re facing. Once you get into a torrent of attacks, you’ll be able to achieve Overdrive, where you’ll start dishing out more damage and attacking with more zhuzh. You’ll need to scroll through your commands and pop-out menus as you usually would, attacking with weapons and magic and selecting items as is likely second nature to you at this point, but you’ll also need to be aware of your flow and rhythm. When you’re not ogling the gorgeous 16-bit inspired pixel art, you’ll be beavering away in a battle that’s all about flow. No, it’s better than that Chained Echoes observes the tropes and tricks that make the genre great and tinkers with the formula – much in the same way the first 10 or so Final Fantasy games did.

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