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It’s an incredibly deep reach that upsets me so much, but it is removing some of my feelings that this is a diverse world inhabited by a wide variety of people. Such as the Harmonia items merchant is the town guard with a French mustache. Towns are pretty starkly populated, but the people who call them home are often the same looking with one differing detail. But once you get to a town, that all changes. Enemies and bosses in dungeons are incredibly diverse.

The second thing that bothers me is that there’s almost a lack of character models at times. However, when not in motion, the models’ details so off their incredible colour and linework. Heads and hands move in ways that can be a little jarring. First, the 2.5D character models set atop a flat background have some rough motions, particularly in their necks. I have two complaints regarding the game’s visuals. Artisan Studio does an amazing job of adding colour and depth with their hand-drawn models brought to life with top-down animation practices first used by Walt Disney in the ’50s. I can’t say that the world of Orcanon is ugly.

Whether or not the final presentation is a victim of home-recording lines due to Covid is hard to tell but this is a rare instance where the dub fails to keep me invested. In what feels like forever, this is the first game I’ve played where the English voice acting is so dull, so painfully dry that I swapped back to the Japanese voices. If this is a change more games plan on doing in the future, I’m not sure it’s one I want to see as it leaves very little room to learn to care for the cast.Īll this goes without even mentioning the subpar dub, one that is so painfully devoid of life it’s hard to listen to. In Astria Ascending, you’re given eight Demi-gods at the start before having to revisit each hometown to learn more about them. What I mean is that most JRPGs dole out party members at intervals, giving each member a moment in the spotlight before allowing us to follow their story. Not so after spending time with the party in Astria Ascending. Your party is constantly bickering and some teammates are often annoying, impatient, or insufferable.īy dropping all eight characters at once at the start of the journey, things tend to get left behind. In most games, there’s a general sense of camaraderie, where you might not agree on every topic but will go to bat for your fellow teammate.

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I’ve found this to be quite interesting as the game is written by Kazushige Nojima of Final Fantasy VII and Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII fame.Īnother thing that I don’t know how to feel about is your party. But this is an experience where the story sort of takes the backseat. Its dialogue and characters are also quite stilted at times, which can be off-putting. They’re sent on a mission across the lands of Orcanon to collect 12 emblems left by those with higher powers to save the world.Īstia Ascending’ s story, at times, can be hard to follow as it carries that endearing vagueness so often found in JRPG’s. There’s been a thousand years’ worth of Demi-gods, but none of the previous Demi-gods have received the amount of power that our party has. The 333rd must embark upon a quest across the various lands and tribes in order to restore order, but also to learn about themselves and challenge their fate. The eight Demi-Gods of the 333rd are at the two years and nine months stage of their ascension period when vile monsters known as the Noises begin to disrupt the harmony of the land. To make up for this, Demi-gods are treated like gods for three years - afforded a life of luxury and prestige. But the price of the Demi-gods’ Zodiac Powers is ascension, otherwise known as death, at the end of a three-year period. Demi-gods personally selected by the Goddess of Harmonia are granted Zodiac Powers - great elemental abilities that make them the fiercest of warriors. A resource called Harmelon is grown in orchards by a sort of worker-class being. Five cities inhabited by five distinct races have come together to embrace harmony in their pseudo-capital city of Harmonia. The story here is simple and yet convolutedly complicated at the same time.

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