Some witches’ song magic is slightly less elementally appropriate Earth Witch Mordimort, for example, summons a giant sheep that puts all foes to sleep for some reason, but all song spells prove to be indispensable during the game’s harder encounters, whether they make sense or not. Water Witch Lisette will heal all allies each turn, while Fire Witch Sakuya will ignite the party’s passions, greatly increasing their chances to score critical hits. If Alto moves adjacent to a witch and selects the “Conduct” command, they will spend the next three turns singing a character-specific song that affects the entire battlefield regardless of unit placement. Witches aren’t just run-of-the-mill mage units they also have access to powerful song magic. However, some units become quickly outpaced heavy knight Archibald may be lovable, but his limited movement and glacial speed make him effectively useless as the battlefields become wider and the foes more numerous. Turn order is decided not only by a character’s speed stat but also by the intensity of the last move they used: If Alto lays into his foes with a powerful multi-target skill, his turn won’t come around as quickly as it would if he’d simply attacked. Each of your units functions similarly to a class: Alto the swordsman, Lisette doubling as both cleric and mage, Klaus a lancer and so forth. Attacks transition into a zoomed-in view of the action, but these animations can be turned off if you feel they add unnecessary length. Battles take place from a fixed isometric perspective as you choose six of your units, represented by super-deformed bobbleheads, to face off against an opposing force. When you’re not wooing your compatriots, you’re fighting alongside them on the battlefield. Hanging out with your bros may not lead to romance, but Stella Glow’s fellas are an amusing bunch who are much more well-rounded than their female counterparts. In fact, they’re so single-minded that it’s occasionally disturbing: When given the choice to calm a panicked witch by telling her to believe in herself or to believe in me, imagine my surprise when I found that the former was in fact the wrong answer! Have some self-respect, lady! Alternatively, in a nice move, you can elect to spend time with any of the game’s male cast to gain their own bonuses. Unfortunately, the girls here have much less personality than those found in Atlus’ flagship series, with almost no interests outside of romance with Alto.
#STELLA GLOW ARCHIBALD FREE#
During free time, Stella Glow adopts a dating system not unlike the social links found in Persona 3/4 in which building up trust with a girl rewards you with new abilities for them to use in battle.
Yes, it’s one of those games.Įvery anime girl archetype is here for you to pick your favorite from: There’s bossy tsundere Sakuya, excessively young genki girl Popo, emotionless Rei Ayanami-clone Mordimort and good ol’ trusty girl-next-door Lisette. What follows is a grand quest across the continent with a liberal peppering of harem hijinks as Alto endears himself to witches of various ages in various states of undress. They are given some some training, then join the knights on a quest to conscript the world’s remaining witches to stop Hilda once and for all.
After fighting the Harbingers off, Alto and Lisette are taken into custody by Commander Klaus of the Regnant Knights. To save her family, Lisette herself awakens as the Water Witch, while Alto serves as her conductor. Players join the amnesiac Alto and his love-interest Lisette as they take up arms against Witch Hilda and her Harbingers of Destruction after the latter raze the former’s village, turning their loved ones to crystal in the process. Their latest release, Stella Glow, was intended to mark this decennial celebration, but instead became a farewell swansong.Ī spiritual successor to the Luminous Arc series, Stella Glow is a turn-based strategy RPG that tells the story of a world in which powerful magic is contained within music, but God has stripped humanity of the ability to sing due to past transgressions, leaving the art of song as the domain of heretical witches. The Western release of Criminal Girls didn’t set any hearts ablaze, their CEO went AWOL, and finally they closed their doors for good just four weeks short of their ten year anniversary. Imageepoch is a developer that has not had the easiest of years.
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