PREVIEW : Time Break Chronicles (PC)
Time Break Chronicles is a blend of classic JRPGs and new Roguelites, with an intended cast of 100 playable characters to find and unlock. Build your team, customize their skills, and venture into a procedurally generated experience through space-time and beyond!
Strategic JRPG-like Battle Gameplay
A core component of any JRPG style play is a turn-based battle. Time Break Chronicles stars strategic turn-based fights against a diversity of foes, each requiring different approaches, skills, and maybe an item or two to bail you out. Take care; these opponents are no pushovers. Even the ordinary enemies will test your reasoning and require a powerful team to win!
Explore, Adapt, Overcome
Your adventure will not only consist of fights. You will also have to quarrel with a variety of traps, barriers, puzzles, and other encounters as you explore the procedurally generated map. Customize your characters, their abilities, and pick the correct details to help you overcome barriers.
Customize Your Heroes
Customize your heroes’ skills with a wide category of equippable weapons, that can do anything from modifying attributes to granting new skills. Craft additional relics to round out your strategy.
Build a Town
Even heroes need someplace to rest after a difficult mission. Build up a town over time with multiple buildings and varied upgrades to support your favourite strategies.
Features
- 100 Playable Character Classes (by end of EA) – Heroes from throughout history and even the future. Find and unlock them all!
- 6 Different Scenes (by end of EA) – Each stage includes unique enemies, items, encounters, and protagonists to unlock.
- Roguelite Gameplay – Every stage playthrough is different, with random effects to give each run a unique feel and approach.
- Customize Your Heroes – Equip relics and train skills to customize your hero’s skills and refine your approach.
- Build a Town – Build up your town overtime to support your heroes in their adventures.
- Endless Mode – Play any stage in an infinite looping mode for increased difficulty and rewards, and to test your abilities.
- Classic JRPG Styling – As fans of classic SNES-era JRPGs, creators have attempted to recreate the feel and fun of these traditional games.
- Controller Support – Play with the mouse or keyboard, or use a controller for that classic feel!
What I Liked About the Game
To start, I’m a big fan of FF Tactics and Etrian Odyssey. Came for the 100+ classes (by the end of EA), and the old school pixeled jrpg meet new school rogue-lite run concept.
So far so good Banter has been accurate, gfx is spot-on, music is fine, and menu controls feel crisp.
this is early access and patches can do wonders. Also, TBC has high up-side. Players gain power gradually from acquiring a plethora of characters (22 at launch, 100+ at full release), relics, assorted skills, and a rogue-lite town with upgradable buildings for even more customization.
Heartily recommended, mostly to see the new scenarios and what the other 80+ characters will bring to the table in future.
After gaining resources in a couple of failed runs, I upgraded my party’s skills. Felt great when I started to succeed in boss runs, bringing back valuable loot slowly, but surely.
What I Didn’t Like About the Game
Advanced game knowledge is acquired through trial and error while navigating through the various user screens, and patience is required as combat feedback is limited. (Enemy exact HP is generally hidden unless you have specific items or class)
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
- MINIMUM:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 8/8.1, 10 64 Bit
- Processor: 2.0 GHz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: 1GB of Video Memory, capable of supporting OpenGL 3.0+
- Storage: 120 MB available space
- RECOMMENDED:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: 3.0 GHz
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia 1060/AMD 580 or better
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