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[h1]Lead a team of 3 through ancient sites killing monsters, gathering loot, and unraveling an evil conspiracy.[/h1]
Falsus Chronicle Ancient Treasure is a cute, dungeon RPG with roguelike elements and procedurally generated dungeons. The game is simple enough if you’ve played games like it before. You have your main player and 2 companions.
At the beginning, you have a healer, an archer, and a warrior. You can buy/sell items/weapons, outfit members, and start missions right from the start menu. You also have NPCs that are in your camp that buy/sell equipment and help you outfit your party too. The portal in the middle of camp takes you to the different chapters you can play and unlock. Currently, there are 2 chapters available and a Tower Mode.
You can grind past chapters as well if you feel enemies are too strong in later levels and get experience and more gold. It doesn’t always feel the same since the level are procedurally generated. I found myself replaying levels to get stronger and to get more gold.
There is a Tower of Trials Mode after chapter 1 which is sort of like a gauntlet style tower. Your main character you use in the Tower is the one you primarily control. So, if you have someone else that's higher level, you can take them instead. Gear, levels, and experience earned here are seperate from the regular game. The higher levels you complete after killing all the monsters on the floor, the better gear you can obtain.
I really like the cute, low-poly anime graphics. The environments and characters look polished albeit plain. It’s sharp, the colors are subtle, and the character design is adorable. Weapons reflect when you swap them, but the armor does not. I hope it does in future updates.
There are different classes to choose from and you can mix and match your party. You can’t switch between them until you’re at camp and you have to manually swap out the character/class you’d like to play. Hopefully this may change in case you wanted to swap on the fly while in the midst of battle.
There isn’t a way to map buttons currently in case you wanted to change up your keyboard/mouse or controller layout. Another thing that might mess up some folks is that the health bars of the enemies and your team all look the same. This is especially bad when you’re being mobbed and you can’t tell who may or may not be dying.
Each dungeon area is pretty short, depending on the story. I spent roughly 5 minutes or less in each chapter. That’s mostly because I played areas over and outfitted my team with the best gear early on.
You also have Monster Gems that serve as stat boosts. According to how much you level, you will be able to assign gems like attack and defense boosts, mana boosts, damage reduction etc. Some gems have other stat enhancements attached like mana regen and mana reduction costs. The gems that have special names are the ones that have more than one boost. It’s a neat system and you can see where your character shines from the gem menu, which is helpful in determining where you want to strengthen your character’s combat style.
Overall, I recommend Falsus Chronicle: Ancient Treasure, however, there isn’t enough content to justify the current price right now. The game looks neat and the core of the game is there for the most part, but if you’re curious, I would wait on buying if you’re looking for more to do.
The developers are constantly making changes, fixing bugs, and slowly adding features as they get more feedback. So, keep your eyes on this one if you’re not quite ready to spend with the small amount of content it currently contains. There is a lot more planned and on the way!
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