The game is fairly lengthy, but if you play on Friendly, it’s a far less battle-packed experience that focuses more on telling the story. Often, Stocke’s best intentions lead to the worst outcomes even when you think he’s making the right decisions. Actually, part of the fun here is getting the assorted abrupt bad endings just so you can see the results of your choices play out before you retry a node. Events in one timeline affect the other, so you’ll do a lot of backtracking and file saving before you see the endings. The main game has Stocke and his allies trying to stop a war effort before an ultimate weapon can be unleashed, but each timeline crisscrosses the other as he jumps back and forth through history trying to change outcomes for the better. The two timelines from the original game are all here with some expanded content and there’s that new character mentioned above called Nemesia, who unlocks even more content. The game tells the story of Stocke, Special Intelligence agent of Alistel who, while on a mission for his country discovers a strange book called the White Chronicle that allows him to travel back and forth through time. The latter seems to be something a few fans dislike, but as we’re in the age of DLC, you can feel free to spend a few extra bucks for those original images and exchange the new art for the old if you like. There are new story elements, a great ‘Friendly’ difficulty setting, a new character with her own storyline (which is actually a fun excuse for assorted dungeon running exploits), full voice acting for all the main characters, sharper visuals, and all-new character portraits. If you’ve played the first game and are on the fence, I’d still recommend this for a few good reasons. If you’ve never played the first game, this one’s a must. Does Atlus have a hit the second time around with the same impact? In short, yep. The original game popped up near the end of the Nintendo DS life cycle and received pretty solid reviews overall, and this newer title slides into the eShop and at retail as Nintendo is slowly but surely planning to phase out the 3DS line (despite the handheld pretty much being the showcase for portable JRPGs in my humble opinion). In a weird way, history is more or less repeating itself with the release of the brilliant remake/remix that is Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology.
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