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Cris Tales is a gorgeous, indie love letter to classic JRPGs with a new perspective. Peer into the past, act in the present, and watch as your choices dynamically change the future -- all on one screen as you play!
Cris Tales is a rpg, adventure and jrpg game
developed by Dreams Uncorporated and SYCK
and published by Maximum Entertainment.
Released on July 20th 2021 is available only on Windows
in 12 languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Italian, Korean, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese - Portugal and Thai.
It has received 495 reviews of which 323 were positive and 172 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.3 out of 10. 😐
The game is currently priced at 39.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Gamivo.
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- OS *: OS Version: windows 7
- Processor: Intel Core at 2.5Ghz or AMD equivalent
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti (2GB) or equivalent
- DirectX: Version 11
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 6 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Medium Settings
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Hello friends, Today I will review the game Cris Tales. This is a game about time traveling having a female protagonist that travels thru time to change events. The unique aspect of this game is the ability to see past, present, and future all on the same screen. This aspect is not found on every map, but when it does on a map, it is very interesting to see the effects of the players actions in the future. There is also many characters that the player can recruit, and they all have their specialties. One complaint on the forum for this action is that not all characters are available all the time, and the fact the game does not auto level characters that are stored in the players party, so if a player wants to keep everyone leveled up, they will have to grind and switch out characters every so often to keep them up to date and their equipment good. PROS: -The world is very pretty and looks like it was sewed together. - Different locations to explore. - Multiple endings and events. - A coliseum near the end of the game that players can challenge themselves to hard fights. CONS: - Do not alt tab when saving the game. It will crash the game and cause it to BSOD your pc. - There are bugs in the coliseum fights that can freeze your game by game breaking your game.This is very obvious in fight #20 in the coliseum fight. In this fight, i personally fought against the enemies. If you use a AOE spell when a certain enemy in this round is in a shadow in the ground, it will soft lock the game. The worst part of the coliseum, players cannot save it, so if it bugs out, players have to start over from fight #1. - They are very strong messages about class difference with wealth present in this game. It is very on the nose, and many people may not like this message it implies. Do I recommend this game? Yes, as a short rpg. So if your looking for a short rpg, then yes. The time mechanics make it interesting, but some people maybe put off by their on the nose messages in the game. The fact that some characters are not available all the time also is off putting to many people, and the fact the party characters in storage cannot be auto leveled, and must be leveled up manually. This is what i consider a light rpg, as the time to beat it took me under 50 hours. In fact I personally beat it in less than 30 hours. I also tried to complete the coliseum fights, but i could not get past the monsters on fight #25. I left a post about how far i made it here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1079830/discussions/0/600784815203077442/
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It's a cute game, like playing through a storybook. Fans of old-school turn-based JRPGs should keep an eye out for sales. At the right price, it's totally worth playing.
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I've played for about 5 hours so far (started on another platform) and I actually love this game! I can't say it's perfect and for me the main problem is that is has a lot of loading screens BUT it is such a beautiful and unique game! The animation style is gorgeous and the soundtrack is really good too. People who want fast-paced action will probably be bored/annoyed but for people who enjoy slower, story-focused RPGs I think it's really good. I personally feel like the negative reviews are exaggerating. That being said, yes the game is not for everyone and 40€ is far too much, but I feel like it's worth way more than 4€ which is the current discounted price.
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I think I'd only recommend Cristales for people new to the JRPG/turn-based RPG genre - it's very straightforward as an introduction to that type of game, and it'll likely be enjoyable without being too difficult or frustrating. If you want something gorgeous to look at but not super stressful or difficult, I'm sure you'll have a good time. Overall I'd say Cristales shines brightly in terms of the art style, concept, and music to an extent, but the execution really left some things to be desired. First and foremost I felt that the core fighting mechanic was underwhelming, and the time-manipulation specifically was a bit of a miss. Since only Crisbell can do the time shift and it uses up your turn, the entire process feels clunky and requires a good deal of set up to pull off. The results are also unimpressive, especially during boss fights. A large number of enemies (bosses and otherwise) are completely immune to statuses, which all but nullifies the effectiveness of the time manipulation. All in all I felt like it was more gimmicky than actually necessary to the combat, which is a shame because it's a very unique idea. Story-wise I'd continue the theme of good concept but lackluster execution. The skeleton of an excellent story is there and it is intriguing, but there's not enough interaction with the world and NPCs to really flesh it out. Most of the game felt like the story was on rails and you only got to take a few steps from the track. I was really left wanting more in that area; I could see the tip of the iceberg and wanted to dive all the way to the bottom. I'm not exaggerating when I say they could have tripled the amount of side-quests and character interactions if they wanted to. This also meant that a lot of the main characters unfortunately felt pretty one-dimensional. We get glimpses of back story, but nothing that doesn't serve The Plot. Something akin to loyalty missions would have really helped in that area, especially since there are characters that are not unlocked until very late in the game. Finally I have to mention some general quality of life and bug issues. I won't get into details, but I think Cristales would have greatly benefited with more play testing just to sus out minor QOL changes that would make the game feel less clunky. There are also a few bugs here and there, the most egregious of which is when, for one particular area, the game warns you of a "point of no return", but the warning comes AFTER YOU ALREADY PASSED THE POINT OF NO RETURN!!! This means that once you see that warning, you are already locked out all the side quests in that area if you hadn't completed them, and it is completely unforgivable that they did not catch it in play testing. Thank goodness I don't worry about 100%ing achievements... It probably sounds like I'm crapping all over this game, but to be clear I really did enjoy playing it. It's gorgeous, it's easy to pick up and learn, the world is unique and interesting, and every once in a while you can set up a very satisfying combat combo. It's also worth mentioning that the voice acting is excellent! The VAs all did a bang-up job and sounded wonderful! All that being said, I'm hoping that the Cristales team keeps up the good work and is able to learn some lessons that can be applied to their future projects. I'm definitely going to keep an eye out for new stuff from this team.
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Absolutely beautiful art and design. Pretty decent game-play and a captivating story/world. Also cute talking frog. There are a few moments where dialogue does not match text, but that's rare and does not detract from the game-play.
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Cris Tales is currently priced at 39.99€ on Steam.
Cris Tales is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 39.99€ on Steam.
Cris Tales received 323 positive votes out of a total of 495 achieving a rating of 6.29.
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Cris Tales was developed by Dreams Uncorporated and SYCK and published by Maximum Entertainment.
Cris Tales is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Cris Tales is not playable on MacOS.
Cris Tales is not playable on Linux.
Cris Tales is a single-player game.
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Cris Tales does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Cris Tales does not support Steam Remote Play.
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Developer
Dreams Uncorporated,
SYCK
Publisher
Maximum Entertainment
Release
20 Jul 2021
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