Have you ever wanted to travel through time and space? Well, Another Eden: The Cat Beyond Time and Space x Persona 5 Royal, developed by WFS, recruits the heroes from ATLUS’ Persona 5 Royal to join the quest to restore the future as part of a free, permanent crossover. The player gets the chance to not only complete missions and quests that are placed in the past, present, and future, but they are also able to role-play with their characters throughout the game in order to continue through each chapter. In order to pass through each layer of a quest in a chapter, there are several “monsters” or creatures that have to be defeated in order to gain passage to the next ‘layer’ of the game. Some of these creatures, however, will only go away if you give them a certain amount of “Atlantis Pearls,” which are the currency in this game and can be earned by defeating monsters and finding loot in certain rooms and treasure chests scattered along each layer of the level. These can also be obtained my completing smaller quests throughout the game in general, that add up throughout several chapters instead of just being specific to one single chapter, as the main quests usually are.
The are many stationary characters in each level, usually indicated with an exclamation mark above their heads, or an ellipsis, indicating a text that is meant to be read by the character. However, while playing this game, I found that having these characters really didn’t serve any purpose because they never actually led my characters anywhere, they were basically just someone to chat with when I went through a door, and they also didn’t offer any advice as to what some of the next steps in the mission would be, like most role-playing games do. I felt there should have been a little more guidance as to how the overall game and quests were meant to be played, I found myself having to teach myself how to play the game without any real direction.
I also found it strange and cool at the same time that instead of having one character to play, you have several at once, which helps greatly in combat because each one has different skillsets and strength levels. However, they all played as one, and I was unable to separate any of them. I think some of the ideas in this game are great, but the execution of them was a miss. Overall, the gameplay is a little confusing, and even though I got to the end of the level eventually, I didn’t think it should have been that difficult to figure out.
The graphics and music of this game really complimented each other, and the controls and attacks were easy to understand. Again though, because of the various elements that made the overall gameplay and comprehension of the game confusing, I would have to rate this RPG a 6 out of 10. If improvements to the instruction of the game and a general guided direction were made, I would certainly give it a higher score. I enjoyed playing it, but there was too much lack of direction for my taste.
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I am an army veteran and currently a sophomore at Portland State University majoring in English. I have always looked to gaming as an outlet outside of my everyday life and a way to experiment with playing different types of games and take on new and exciting characters with different backgrounds. It's kind of like getting to become a new person every time you play a game.
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