Ara Fell: Enhanced Edition

+ Features 'Story difficulty' which optionally auto-wins any battle + Tries to reproduce similar SNES games which were defined by hardware capabilities/limitations of the era - Any other difficulty level other than 'Story' seems pointless (unless the player prefers wasting time performing repetitive tasks by hand) - Clearly visible framerate micro-stuttering during playfield scrolling - Confusing map - Generic soundtrack - Generic story (elves, humans, magic, vampires) without surprises - Lots of text to read - Map isn't based on a computationally scaled-down version of the playing field - Maximum framerate is 60 Hz: unnecessary motion blur on high refresh rate monitors - Overrated game - Repetitive fights

An utterly wonderful old school JRPG. The game features pixel art reminiscent of the SNES or Sega Genesis, and it looks wonderful. The story and characters are both terrific, though the story does occasionally hand wave things to keep the party in the driver's seat, but was done sparingly enough that I didn't mind that much. The music was also terrific. If there is one weakness it would be the combat during the regular encounters, it's not as simple as an older Final Fantasy game, where you only have a basic attack, and one caster, but it's not much more complicated, and it does get a bit repetitive, but for boss fights it gets a lot more fun. If you are familiar with these games or prone to grinding at all play on hard, if both, play on expert. I did my first playthrough on hard, and by the end even that was kind of easy. Lastly, a fairly completionist playthrough is likely about 20-25 hours, I came pretty close to getting everything at 21 hours. I strongly recommend this for any old school JRPG/RPG lover, and anyone that likes a good story well told! At $10 this is a great deal, and at the $4 I paid on sale, I feel like I stole something.

Not quite done with it yet, but looking forward to seeing how it ends. It's a well made JRPG, with an engaging story, and a surprising number of nice quality of life features that I really wish more PRGs in general had to offer (are you sure you want to go in that room checks, ability to easily skip cutscenes, and a built in alternate for color blind / low vision players to complete a color-based puzzle.

just finished the game, it was a wonderful experience. So much love was put into the game. Feels slightly heartbreaking to see that this is where my adventures with Lita and friends end. Thank you so much for the experience.

v good

Amazing game from start to finish. When I was young I loved turn-based games as I had few games, a lot of time, and there wasn't many options for entertainment. As the variety of entertainment, not just with games but streaming opened up, turn-based games were put to the side. But I thoroughly enjoyed Ara Fell. The combat was relatively fast and it knew how to give me enough in the world to get to the levels/gear necessary to progress with minimal grinding. Thoroughly enjoyed the story as well! A real treat!

If you like a laid back JRPG with nice pixel art and good mechanics, give this game a try.

It looks like a JRPG and it plays like a JRPG, but it doesn't sound or talk like one. And thank god for that. This game has all the classic JRPG gameplay and systems, but with actually competent writing/story telling (unlike a lot of JRPGs).

Game has some very good ideas. Especially thanks to dev for hp\mp restore between battles. Crafting is good, but a lot of things just feels bad in details. You are walking slow, you jump to water EXTREMLY slow and do it a lot, fights are good but repetitive. Just can't stand it. Even hate it i think, with all respect and love to devs.

so good. scratches the golden sun nostolgia itch.