Another Eden

Another Eden

The logo for Another Eden
Developer(s) Wright Flyer Studios
Publisher(s) Wright Flyer Studios
Director(s) Masato Kato
Producer(s) Takashi Daisuke
Artist(s)
  • Tanaka Egusa
  • Chei Shinwoo
Writer(s) Masato Kato
Composer(s)
Platform(s) iOS, Android
Release
  • JP: April 12, 2017
Genre(s) Role-playing
Mode(s) Single-player

Another Eden[lower-alpha 1] is a free-to-play role-playing video game developed and published by Wright Flyer Studios for iOS and Android devices. The game involves time travel elements, where players explore the past, present, and future. Another Eden features the collaboration of key staff members Masato Kato and Yasunori Mitsuda from Xenogears and the Chrono series of role-playing video games. The game was released in Japan on April 12, 2017.

Gameplay

Despite being a mobile phone video game on the GREE platform, the game will still play as a traditional JRPG, with little focus on "social interactions" and "log-in" bonuses frequenctly found on the platform.[1] The game is free to play, with in-app purchases for in-game items.[2] The game will feature a 26 chapter main scenario,[3] expected to contain 70 hours of play time.[4] Gameplay will involve the player time travelling through three main time periods, a past, present, and future.[5][4]

The game primarily plays as a side-scrolling video game, at times opening up for full 360 degree movement.[6] The player directly maneuvers a character between locations and interacts with non-playable characters to progress through the game.[6] Confrontations with enemy characters are played out with turn-based battles.[4] While new characters join the party and grow stronger naturally over the course of the game flow, the player may spend real-world currency on obtaining stronger items and characters as well.[6] "Chronos Stones", which can be obtained naturally through playing the game, or bought through in-app purchases, allows access to the "Star Dreaming Hall", which allows the player to gamble gacha-style for stronger items and characters.[6][7]

Plot

The game stars Aldo, the game's protagonist, and his sister, Feene. A demon king seeks to use Feene's dormant abilities to erase humans from the world. During a desperate moment while failing to rescue his sister, a distortion in space-time occurs in the air, and Aldo escapes 800 years into the future.[7]

Development and release

Development on the game started in early 2015,[8] with its first announcement occurring in September 2015, at that year's Tokyo Game Show.[5] The game was revealed as a new project by Masato Kato, who had written and directed Chrono Cross, and wrote parts of Xenogears and Chrono Trigger.[5] The game will be developed by Wright Flyer Studios for iOS and Android devices on the GREE platform,[1] with Kato directing and writing the game's scenario and script.[5][9] Kato collaborated with GREE producer Daisuke Takasaki, who previously worked on Puyo Puyo Quest, on the game, as they shared the same vision of putting a more traditional JRPG on mobile device, something Takasaki felt the platform generally lacked.[8][4] Importance was placed on making free-range movement comfortable on button-less devices, something Takasaki felt was poorly, or not at all, implemented on many mobile RPGs.[8] Graphics were kept two dimensional to help accommodate the game's large scope, with 2D graphics being cheaper and easier to create on larger scale.[8] This was necessary to realize Kato's large scope for the game's story as well.[8] Similar to the Chrono series, the game was announced to be centered around time travel.[1] Additionally, a "day and night" theme will also be present in the game.[10][11]

The game's opening theme was composed by Yasunori Mitsuda, who also worked with Kato on previous titles.[1][9] The bulk of the score was composed by Shunsuke Tsuchiya and Mariam Abounasser.[1] The development team was initially unsure on whether or not voice acting should be implemented into the game, though after an impromptu questionnaire was issued to fans, over 70% favored its inclusion, so the team decided in favor of it.[4] However, the limitations of the game being on mobile platforms lead to it only being partial voice acting, not full voice acting for every scene.[4]

The game was initially targeting a release in mid-2016,[1][4] but was later pushed back to an early 2017 release date,[3] finally being set for April 12.[2] Prior to the game's final release, a sign-up for a 1,000 participant closed beta testing was held in late February 2017,[9] and conducted for a week in March 2017.[6]

Notes

  1. ↑ アナザーエデン 時空を超える猫 ("Another Eden: The Cat Beyond Space-Time") in Japanese

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Smart Phone RPG "Another Eden" Features Talent from "Chrono Trigger"". Retrieved 14 May 2017.
  2. 1 2 株式会社インプレス (4 April 2017). "スマホ用「アナザーエデン 時空を超える猫」、配信日決定 ニコ生番組出演者のサイン入りポスターが3名にもらえるキャンペーンを実施". Retrieved 14 May 2017.
  3. 1 2 "A new aspect of smaho RPG! "Another Eden" CBT Report". March 16, 2017.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 株式会社インプレス (31 January 2016). "スマホ「アナザーエデン」、一部プレイ動画を初公開 グリー高氏がぶっちゃけながら開発方針を決める「開発定例議会」を開催". Retrieved 14 May 2017.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Chrono Trigger And Xenogears Writer’s Smartphone RPG Another Eden To Be At TGS 2016". September 9, 2016.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 株式会社インプレス (16 March 2017). "スマホRPGの新たな境地！ 「アナザーエデン」CBTレポート 冒険を能動的に楽しむ「本格RPG」に真正面から取り組むグリーの意欲作". Retrieved 14 May 2017.
  7. 1 2 "Another Eden game review". GameDeets. 2017-04-13.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 株式会社インプレス (18 September 2015). "“発明満載でお見せできない”新作スマホRPG「アナザーエデン」 ドット絵時代のRPGの冒険をスマホに。加藤正人氏、光田康典氏らが参加". Retrieved 14 May 2017.
  9. 1 2 3 株式会社インプレス (22 February 2017). "「アナザーエデン 時空を超える猫」、クローズドβテスト参加者募集開始 新作PRG、シナリオ・演出に加藤正人氏、メインテーマには光田康典氏が起用". Retrieved 14 May 2017.
  10. ↑ "Chrono Trigger Writer Works on Another Eden Mobile RPG". Retrieved 14 May 2017.
  11. ↑ "【TGS2015】『クロノ・トリガー』のシナリオライター＆サウンドクリエイターによるタイムトラベル冒険RPG『アナザーエデン』発表 - インサイド". Retrieved 14 May 2017.
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