A cute dungeon crawler, Elrentaros Wanderings takes you on an journey between two worlds. You play as a younger adventurer who explores dungeons, defeats monsters, protects the townsfolk and sometimes pays a go to to the college you attend in a distinct, much less thrilling world.
The vast majority of the sport takes place within the fantasy world of Elrentaros. You camp exterior city as you earn the belief of the locals. At the beginning of the sport, there’s one mysterious dungeon on the fringe of city. As you progress, you unlock extra till there are a complete of six. The primary 5 dungeons have numerous missions you possibly can full to achieve cash, gear, and particular objects that you should utilize to help individuals within the city. The sixth consists solely of boss fights.
Befriending the assorted townsfolk is a mechanic in itself. When you might have spoken to them sufficient instances, accomplished sufficient missions for them, and raised your likeability stage sufficient, you possibly can equip them as a assist. This presents you boons to your dungeon runs equating to items you’ve given them.
The kinds of missions it’s important to full match into broadly comparable classes. For example, unlocking all of the warp panels to the bonus rooms, finishing the dungeon with gear of a sure stage or beneath, or avoiding or profitable with a specific kind of assault. Because of this, later within the recreation, you may be capable of guess your method into finishing some missions in your first try (finishing a dungeon with out your HP dropping to 0 is a normal first mission), nevertheless it’s uncommon to get by way of them abruptly. This provides you a motive to return into every dungeon making an attempt out several types of weapons and being cautious of various enemies.
Every dungeon in Elrentaros Wanderings is made up of a variety of phases to discover and a boss battle. As you full the missions, you unlock new variants of the identical dungeons with extra highly effective monsters spawning in other places, with new missions and higher rewards. The dungeon layouts stay the identical every time, so there’s a threat that the sport can get a bit repetitive, particularly should you get caught on a difficult mission that’s blocking the story from progressing.
Nonetheless, the dungeons are very fantastically designed, every with a definite model, making them genuinely enjoyable to discover a number of instances with out getting boring. That is complemented by fluid animation and daring designs in relation to the enemies you face and the strikes they use. Monsters are unbearably cute, based mostly on wild animals, with completely different creatures comparable to completely different basic social gathering courses, starting from cute little bunnies and birds to monstrous swine and floating octopodes.
The factors at which new challenges unlock are staggered cleverly so you possibly can’t bounce straight to the subsequent problem stage of 1 dungeon with out utilizing a distinct dungeon as a stepping stone. This introduces a pure factor of selection to the sport that flows comfortably with the narrative.
As an alternative of leveling up your character, you choose up gear with various ranges and particular talents that you may unlock. This implies you possibly can problem your self to strive a more durable dungeon utilizing decrease stage gear if you wish to actually check your self exterior of the story.
Dialogue in Elrentaros Wanderings is extra of a visible novel than a really interactive expertise. There are a handful of dialogue choices in your character, however they don’t have a big impact on the story. However in any other case this side is crafted nicely sufficient. All of the characters are nicely designed and written, with distinct seems to be, personalities and methods of connecting to the protagonist as you get to know them.
The sections that participate within the “actual” world at college could as nicely not exist. There isn’t any motion to it; it’s all dialog with only a few dialogue choices, so may be clicked straight by way of with minimal penalties to the general recreation. It’s nonetheless nicely written and the relationships simply established, with a enjoyable parallel to their visible equivalents within the fantasy world. However you spend significantly much less time at college, and the shortage of motion means you’re feeling much less engaged in that world. On the finish, you get the choice to decide on which world to remain in, however the selection doesn’t really feel like one with a lot weight.
