Characters level up and gain increased stats, which allow them to perform better in combat.Ĭombat isn't exciting by any means. Your roster of characters will increase as you continue the story, and they grow stronger as you use them in combat. Players in Vestaria Saga command a lord named Zade, as well as a band of warriors you command from map to map. The gameplay premise likely sounds similar to SRPG veterans. Vestaria Saga I: War of the Scions Review | Familiar Gameplay Yeah. SRPG Studio is just a pain, and I can't help but think of how extraordinary Vestaria Saga could be had it used a better engine and handmade sprites. There is gamepad support, but only if the controller stays activated throughout your play session. Pressing the Escape button automatically closes out the entire game, so you can lose progress with an accidental push. The default window is no better, shrinking the image to an almost unplayable state. In widescreen, the game stretches to the point of blurring. SRPG Studio holds Vestaria Saga back from a technical standpoint as well. Thankfully, these scenes can be disabled in the options menu. This also soon becomes exhausting to watch, as the scene plays out with your units attacking enemies in what seem to be single digit frames per second. When you attack an enemy in Vestaria Saga, it plays out a closeup scene of your unit battling with said enemy. Because of this, I found that the maps can be quite an eyesore sometimes, with the same, ugly texture painted over and over again. Everything from the textures of buildings and terrain on the maps to character sprites on the field of battle are cheap assets copied into the game. Because Vestaria Saga runs on SRPG Studio, it also utilizes pre-made assets that aren't created by Kaga's team. Regardless of your experience with the SRPG genre, you'll be sure to enjoy the tunes and art.Īfter doing so well in both character design and music, it's an immense letdown that the presentation of the rest of Vestaria Saga leaves much to be desired. The music is as good as much higher budget titles, and its character art has a lot of passion behind it as well. The word that comes to mind to describe the music, as it does for most of Vestaria Saga, is Fire Emblem-like. Nitpicking aside, Vestaria Project outdid themselves with the quality of the soundtrack. The lack of consistency within Vestaria Saga is notable with generic enemy units, which don't seem to have as much care put into them as the main cast nor completely match the quality of the main cast. While yes, the art is excellent, some character portraits feel out of place or inconsistent with the rest of the roster. Character designs are quite varied too, assuring that every unit you recruit to your party feels like a unique individual. Character art has a weathered and retro look, like they're from an old manga or 1990s anime. Artist Mayumi Hirota, know for her work on Fire Emblem: Thracia 776, created the character portraits for an authentic and retro feel. While Vestaria Saga is incredibly low-budget (it runs on SRPG Studio, which is very similar to RPG Maker) it's evident that there is a lot of love and care put into crafting this game. Project is an apt name, since this SRPG feels like a passion project by Kaga and the rest of the developers. Studio Vestaria Project is the developer behind Vestaria Saga I: War of the Scions. Vestaria Saga I: War of the Scions Review | That Throwback Feel My man Troy here is an MVP. With a new translation by Dangen Entertainment, more people than ever before can experience this adventure by one of the genre's pioneers. After some time away, Kaga is back with Vestaria Saga I: War of the Scions, a Japan-exclusive freeware title from 2016. He went on to create Tear Ring Saga, a strategy RPG so similar to Fire Emblem, that Nintendo took him to court. Kaga left the series developer, Intelligent Systems, after the release of Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 in 1999, two decades ago as of this writing. Some might be surprised to learn that the mind behind Nintendo's popular Fire Emblem games, Shouzou Kaga, hasn't had a hand in making the series for years.
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