Ara fell enhanced edition review1/28/2024 ![]() ![]() Each area has their own set of monsters you’ll encounter, although admittedly, there are usually only about four to five types of enemies per region. There are quite a few lands you’ll visit along your travels and all of them feel unique. However, unlike that game which has cute sprites, but mostly generic environments, Ara Fell has tons of details put in to each and every screen. In fact, I recently reviewed Monster Viator, which is another RPG that uses this style. There has been a huge resurgence in popularity for this style in the last few years. Visually, this is a retro-inspired 16-bit art style. Is it just me, or do those doorways look like boobs? They have truly enhanced it in many crucial ways. They’ve also upgraded the crafting system, added more sidequests and explorable areas, completely revamped the UI, allow you to freely enter water without having to use the specified shining points, and added an autosave feature. Within each class, you can select certain abilities to better compliment your play style. All four of your main characters can gain new classes, which give them varying attributes. Many of the sidequests involve helping out various NPCs in some way and it makes you care more about the citizens across the land of Ara Fell.Īside from nixing the action timer, Ara Fell: Enhanced Edition has a few other gameplay upgrades as well. Along with exploring, you’ll solve puzzles to gain new ability granting artifacts, open up new areas, and unlock quests. There are also some lands that will have enemies that are much higher leveled than you, but you can feel free to try and take them on if you wish (I tried and most of the time I failed). It’s mostly open world, however there are some areas that will be blocked off until you progress to a certain part of the story. Was it the dark hooded cloak or the glowing eyes that tipped you off?Īra Fell is a game that encourages you to explore. It is very self aware and often pokes fun at some of the more obvious RPG story tropes, but there are some very mature moments in here that gave it a depth I wasn’t expecting. There is a lot of humor woven throughout it, mainly delivered in banter back and forth between characters. It doesn’t make the mistake of taking itself too seriously though. There are quite a few twists along the way, and while plenty I saw coming from a mile away, there were a few that actually surprised me. It starts off with a fairly standard setup and ultra cutesie characters, but as you progress it gets deeper and darker. Speaking of the story, Ara Fell really impressed me. Personally, I think that defeats the purpose of playing a game, but I can see the draw for those who don’t have hours of time to dedicate to a game and mainly want to see its story. For example, there’s the Story Mode which allows you to automatically win any battle you’re engaged in. Luckily, Stegosoft Games was able to rectify this once they weren’t held back the limitations of the software they had available at the time.Īra Fell: Enhanced Edition not only got rid of the action timer, but also added in new levels of difficulty. It also takes you out of the moment when your heroes and the enemies are just staring at each other, not moving until some unseen force deems it okay to strike. This was hugely unnecessary and made the each battle take an absurd amount of time to get through. In the original version, you were still operating on a turn-based system, but you couldn’t actually perform any moves until a certain amount of time had passed. However, in Ara Fell: Enhanced Edition, there have been some much needed improvements. Gameplay-wise, this is very much your old school turn-based JRPG fare. Along the way you’ll find other companions to join you, each with their own strengths and motivations. Before long, her fantasies become reality and she’s swept into an epic adventure she wasn’t prepared for. She’s a young woman who dreams of saving the world and pretends to do so with her best friend, Adrian. In Ara Fell, you play as the protagonist, Lita.
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