Advent Crossroad

Solid game where you can see its inspirations from various points of the Shin Megami Tensei series. Gameplay is primarily dungeon-crawling like SMT1, character growth system involves scanning attacks like in Devil Survivor, or purchasing new skills akin to Digital Devil Saga. There's also a wide variety of skills and attacking elements with enemies having varying affinities that you have to work around, while you have to manage your own elemental affinities with the equipment you wear. It does fall short in a few places. Story is pretty sparse - you're a security guard suddenly stuck in a mall when it's infested by demons, and you have to fight your way through waves of demons to find the way out, rescuing survivors and teaming up with others who can fight like you can with the help of a mysterious device you've found. I also feel that the interface could be improved - your characters' resistances and vulnerabilities can be inferred from the equipment they wear but the game seems to think they have weakness where the equipment doesn't say. You've got a whole lot of buffs and debuffs to manage - one for each stat - but with a limited skill capacity of 6 and so many stats governing different things, the game would do better to condense its buffs and debuffs. (Not that I mind, I've managed to ignore buffs for most part until the final boss) Still, it's a decent game for an indie developer. It definitely scratched my itch for SMT-esque combat and customization when I'm not playing SMT Nocturne. I look forward to what they'll come up with next.

I came across this game after searching for games like Etrian Odyssey & Shin Megami Tensei. I'll start with the positives :) The good The 'vibe' of the game is very similar to Devil Survivor, artwork is nice, story starts off nice and simple and gets more involving as you go through. Battle system is similar enough to above mentioned games and also varied enough for you to get a kick out of organising your party with a selection of acquired skills (collected via getting hit by a monsters attack whilst you use a turn to absorb said monster skills). The sprites for the monsters are pretty nice as well, reading down on this page, these are some nicely taken stock images and utilised well. If they are original, then very good. Music is also pretty good, standard battle and FOE battle are suitably fun and catchy and the standard ambient themes are nice enough. The gameplay is both fun and challenging, not a lot of replay value as it is a little short for these sort of games. Some post game boss fights would not hurt. The not so good The interface could so with a lot of work, quite clunky overall. I used a controller until a bug made that option not viable. it would be nice to quickly flick between characters and not have to exit the skill menu to select another character to mess around with their skills. Characters equipment needs more descriptions. The best weapon in the game is a gun bought at the mid length which hits 3 times. No other gun can come close to matching this and I feel as though most of the weapons have hidden effects FOE combat starts off fun, as in the fights are truly difficult until you have better levels and equipment, which brings us to the biggest issue with the combat. The status ailments. Not all effects are created equal. I can't remember them all, but each element has its own flavour of effect and some independent status effects are there as well. The ones worth abusing are Lightning and Fire. Lightning paralyses for an indefinite amount of turn and fire causes between 5 & 10% of a monsters health each of its turn. As the FOE monsters health pools are so high that even buffed, super effective moves barely tickle them, and they can usually heavily wound you in return. So your only viable option is to spam Elec type and fire type until it sticks and then whittle them down. Works for basically every FOE in the game. This also works against you as well, which in this case I do not mind. If a monster has the ability to cast multi strike elec attacks then there is a very real option of your party getting destroyed by some middle of the road monsters. Overall though, for what it is and how much it is. I had more fun with this than some of the other recommended games of this genre. Short and sweet and gives you a craving for some more. TL:DR Combat and music are great, a great tribute to the games it drew its influence from. Interface could be better, certainly feels like it was made on a smaller budget. 7/10 (Super Harsh Critic) Well done!

Advent Crossroad is the first dungeon crawler released by Nankada, the dev of Core Crossing. Much like its successor, Advent Crossroad follows nearly the same formula, with some notable exceptions. The game contains a system of learning magic much like Final Fantasy's Blue Mage. If a hero uses the Scan command and an enemy then uses an unclaimed spell, the character will claim it and be able to use it thereafter. This is a really nice mechanic, and because skills and spells are so costly to learn, it's a great way to get stronger when you otherwise wouldn't be able to. Another change from Core Crossing is the fact that there is a wider variety of character builds. Every hero can learn any skill in the game, but with the limit of active skills allowed, you are forced to specialize. Planning how each hero will develop is incredibly rewarding and fun, and makes the game feel like your choices matter. My main character was an offensive Black Mage type, focusing on elemental damage, the second character was fighter-type specializing in physical damage, and so on. A notable way this game differs from Core Crossing is its world. It's set in modern times, instead of a fantasy era, Your characters will be wielding guns, batons, and can even wear cosplay gear, which is amusing and interesting, all the same. Advent Crossroad's plot focuses on a group of friends fighting to liberate a mall from a mysterious threat, and each character has their own personality and agenda. It's nice to see how they alter the plot, and relate to different aspects of it in their own way, giving them agency. There's even a few references to classic memes, which made me laugh. Despite being Nankada's first game, Advent Crossroad felt more complex and complete than its sequel. Its additional mechanics, systems, and a more interesting storyline made it feel more realized and drew me in further. Definitely play this game if you like dungeon crawlers, or are a fan of Core Crossing. I await Nankada's third game, and will definitely support them when it is released.

A great dungeon crawling game! I had a lot of fun finishing it. The SMT inspirations did a great job here, btw! Can't wait to see your next project and good luck!

:::::Вполне приличный rpg-dungeon crawler от инди-команды. Ассоциации по играм, судя по обзорам, могут быть несколько разные - мне самому это напомнило New Tokyo Legacy Operation Abyss и Operation Babel - там тоже были преобразованные области города, по которым шастали всякие монстры. Сюжет не представляет собой ничего выдающегося - я бы назвал его стандартным. :::::: В игре есть пять персонажей, которых вы получите под свое управление на разных этапах прохождения. Классов в игре нет - вы можете сами учить любые способности из доступного списка, причем возможности весьма разнообразны и список впечатляет (кроме стандартных лечений-очищений-воскрешений, тут есть статусные атаки и возможность привязать их к атакам оружием, три вида физических атак и порядка 8 стихийных и многое другое). Кроме того каждый персонаж имеет определенный список доступных лишь ему способностей (таланты), получаемых с ростом уровня. Основным ограничением тут будет количество слотов под активные способности, которые могут быть использованы в бою - их тут 6 . При этом вне боя вы можете использовать любую выученную способность вне зависимости от того, входит она в эти 6 или нет. ::::::Уровень сложности тут один, но вполне приличный - умирать персонажи будут достаточно часто не только от атак боссов или заклинаний противников, но и от своих собственных, поскольку у многих монстров есть не только сопротивление или полный иммунитет, но и отражение ударов некоторыми видами урона (эти сочетания разные для разных монстров). По этой причине рекомендую во второй половине игры иметь хотя бы у 3-4 персонажей в числе активных навыков воскрешение и лечение). Также предпоследний босс потребует от вас наличия на каждом персонаже предмета с сопротивлениями очарованию, иначе ваши подопечные просто перебьют друг друга. ::::::Теперь пару слов о минусах - их немного. Начну с того, что в игре механика начала боя построена так, что вы делаете некоторое количество шагов, после чего начинается бой (в правом нижнем углу экрана есть индикатор - окошечко, в котором появляется и затем начинает мигать восклицательный знак) и проблема в том, что бой начинается После очередного шага. Дело в том, что если получается на этом шаге несколько событий, то игра может вылететь с ошибкой. В случае хождения по магазинам это решается просто - если видите мигающий восклицательный знак индикатора, просто сначала запустите бой и уже после победы или побега входите в магазин. Но есть в игре уровень the Dense, на котором периодически вы будете падать в дыры в полу, которые до первого падения в них, попросту не видны. И вот если бой начнется, когда вы наступите на тайл с такой дырой, то по факту выхода из боя игра с высокой вероятностью вылетает с ошибкой, поскольку бой запускается автоматически, а вы продолжаете стоять на месте с дырой, которая из-за нескольких событий , происходящих одновременно просто не срабатывает. Тут могу порекомендовать лишь сохраняться периодически. ::::: Еще из багов встретился такой - когда вы будете в локации Aquaring, вы периодически будете прыгать в зоны, похожие на подводные, и вот при прыжке туда отказываются нормально работать в части перемещения кнопки W и S, хотя тут ничего критичного нет - просто пройдите этот кусочек при помощи стрелок (перемещение предусмотрено аж тремя вариантами кнопок с клавиатуры), после чего можете сохраниться и перезапустить игру, чтобы восстановить работу кнопок, либо продолжить управлять персонажами при помощи стрелок. :::::Также стоит отметить, что часто сопротивления/ иммунитеты/ отражение стихий отображаются в соответствующих окошечках у мобов некорректно и доверять им слепо не стоит, впрочем мобов не так много и запомнить это самому не составляет большого труда. Часть описаний у навыков также по всей видимости неверна (ну или часть способностей работает не так, как заявлено) - к примеру пассивка Gene core согласно описанию, полностью снимает стоимость способностей по мане (CP), но на деле лишь снижает стоимость вдвое, как и предыдущая. Но таких косяков в описании способностей немного и в целом тут все нормально. :::::Как итог, игру любителям жанра рекомендую, не смотря на наличие небольших огрех.

Love it already. A stylish and breezy dungeon crawler with great aesthetics. Really excited to dig in further.

玩得不久，意犹未尽。10分的话可以打个8.1分，推荐打折入。 吹爆敌役素材，用这些做敌役，你做得好啊，做得好啊！！ 这种在迷宫中探索的感觉真不错，而且还是碾压的程度，真不错~嗯，不过在还是游戏方面感觉还不够出色啊。比如，就像这个.....这个中文的部分，有些句子是真的很像机翻句，而且是以“十几句里出一句”的频率活跃于对话中，叫人困惑。倒不是让游戏体验打折，不过那种句子真的你一眼看过去马上就知道更合适的说法和用词（过于艹了。 合成系统方面感觉缺点东西，这种地方合成点商店不卖的药可能会好一点，还有，就是能合成一些特殊装备或者能做强化就好了。就那种迷宫探索之后满载而归，将所得投入下次探险的感觉，我个人很喜欢，不过游戏里差了点意思 到第三区域的时候，就...那种"数码暴龙机"的既视感一下就起来了，希望后期不要真是那种展开......

This is a simple yet fun DRPG. If you enjoy games like SMT Strange Journey and Labyrinth of Galleria you'll have a fun time with this one as well. I did experience a few crashes during the early parts of the game, but for some reason they stopped once I reached the mid point. Just remember to save every so often and you'll be fine. I look forward to seeing what this developer will do next.

This is a very solid if somewhat short first person dungeon crawler/jrpg hybrid, with an open skill system rather than character classes (though each character starts with some unique talents). Certainly a good buy for the price and since there aren't a whole lot of first person dungeon crawlers on the market, a definite recommendation for people like me who can't get enough of these types of games.

Overall, it's a great experience! I finished the game and it definitely satisfied my Dungeon Crawler itch. I found the gameplay to be engaging and the production value is great. The music/art/sound were all solid. I recommend it if you are a Dungeon crawler fan who is looking for a short and fun experience.