Some indie game recommendations from ones I’ve played or know enough about them to suggest them to others(mostly in no particular order), Part 5.
Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9
Chained Echoes
Stray
A Short Hike
Unpacking
SUPERHOT
Dead Cells
House Flipper
Sifu
CrossCode
Advent Crossroad
Spooky’s Jumpscare Mansion
SEASON: A letter to the future
Coffee Talk
Heart Fragment
Donut County
World of Horror
Freedom Planet
OFF
Aragami
Cuphead
Evil Tonight
Vigil: The Longest Night
Find Love or Die Trying
Potionomics
Alba: A Wildlife Adventure
Rise of the Third Power
Dark Nights
False Skies
ASTLIBRA Revision
Rain World
Queen Beast(despite how it’s listed on Steam, it doesn’t seem to be that type of VN, according to it’s VNDB page’s contents)
LiEat
Noel the Mortal Fate
Katana Zero
Jenny LeClue - Detectivu
Mythic Ocean
Vengeful Heart
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Chained Echoes is a good game you should try it
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In a year when God of War: Ragnarok and Elden Ring came out it feels really odd to be telling everyone that they need to actually be playing an indie RPG called Chained Echoes
But it’s the truth. It’s like if Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy Tactics had a baby with Neon Genesis Evangelion
If that sounds awesome to you then, congrats, you’re the target audience for the best retro RPG in years
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Long time no see. Here are some notable recent artwork I've made from past months. (The rest are quite suggestive, so take a peek at my twitter instead if you'd like to.)
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Into the Aether | 258 | Malcolm Landgraab's Tarot of Death
Ah, now I know the immediate reaction is to shy away from the Death tarot, but if you look closely you will s-- wait... no... that's impossible... this is no ordinary Death... Landgraab can not die he-- he is eternal... Oh, my friend I am so sorry... your future... is in real estate.
Discussed: Steamworld Build, Malcolm Landgraab, The Comic Wheel Sisterhood, The Sims Multiverse, Goodboy Galaxy, Octopath Traveler 2, Chained Echoes, Baldur’s Gate 3, The Game Awards
Listen to the show here 😘
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Not me, immediately wanting to write fanfiction for Chained Echoes... 👀
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Has anyone else played Chained Echoes? I got it on Steam while it was on sale since I'd heard it was a very good modern indie JRPG and I was able to give it a shot the other day. It's not bad by any means, but it seems to start a bit slow? Did anyone else experience that and does it pick up at some point?
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imagine thinking you were your crush’s lover in a past life but it turns out you were someone the guy she was “cheating” on (but she only did it because she was sold to you and forced into a marriage w you)
… and you accidentally killed her and didnt let her lover follow her into her next life and took his place instead leaving the lover to die
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Chained Echoes
If I knew it was published by Deck13, I would have skipped over it, and missed out. Deck13 has a tendency to try and reinvent the genre, and every attempt at making it better simply makes it worse.
Except this, and apparently Blood Knight. Blood Knight notably did NOT try to reinvent the genre, and was instead quite fun.
Chained Echoes is a traditional-style Japanese RPG, and in fact, it does what FFXII tried and failed to do, so many years ago. FFXII wanted to eliminate the transition between combat and exploration.
In Chained Echoes, the characters seem like a traditional 8/32 bit pixel world, but can freely and fluidly move in any direction. When it comes to combat, the characters line up, and the combat menu pops up.
The characters are interesting, and diverse, in the real sense, (their roles in combat and the story are diverse).
The combat system adds a couple of really interesting features. The first is Overdrive, (no, not the Limit Break, although there is a limit break metre), but what in the infantry we called Momentum. Momentum is essential in combat. If you run too hot, you lose any benefit you gained, but if you let your momentum drop, you have a LOT of trouble getting it back, and you start to stagnate. So, everything you can do either increases or decreases the Overdrive gauge. Swapping out reduces it, most things increase it, some abilities will switch from increasing it while the metre is low to decreasing it later in the battle. This takes a lot of getting used to, but the game will always show you what the result would be, and even colours the arrows, so you can see exactly where it will land.
As for the swapping system, you tag-team characters. FFX introduced Swapping, and there was nothing to stop you from swapping a thousand times in the same battle. Rather than putting limits on the number of times you can swap, this has you assign partners. You can swap the partners as much as you want. Swapping always reduces Overdrive, which is essential later in the battle, and enemies can Stagger you, which lasts 8 turns, or until swap out.
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Only in video games can you get your ass kicked by a vegetable skewer
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Chained Echoes is awesome and I had a great time playing it! If you like turn based rpgs it's a real treat. And Lenne is fantastic, I love her
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If you're a fan of pixel art JRPGs go play Chained Echoes its literally my favorite game rn
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Chained Echoes GAMEPLAY - Part 6 [No Commentary]
Hello stranger! Join me as I play through Chained Echoes. A JRPG-style game with beautiful pixel art and an epic storyline (or so I hear).
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