#souls of chronos

[satoshi-mochida]

Publisher Astrolabe Games and Chinese developer FUTU Studio will release RPG Souls of Chronos for PlayStation 5, Switch, and PC via Steam on February 14, the companies announced. It will support English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese language options.

Here is an overview of the game, via Astrolabe Games:

The Game

Souls of Chronos adopts a classic isometric JRPG experience, blending with action gameplay for its combat system. Playing as the duo of “Sid,” a young boy longing for the outside world, and “Tori,” a mysterious, time-bending “Chronus,” players will experience their adventures in the port city of Astella and beyond.

The game is divided into five chapters. In this intricate intertwining of events, the choices that players made throughout the game will ultimately lead to four different endings and determine the fate of Astella.

The Background: A Post-Apocalyptic New World

Fifteen years after the catastrophic event known as the “Apocalypse,” the world is still in an era of great unrest. Even Astella, a harbor town far from the center of the Vallois Empire, is no exception.

Local gangs, slum dwellers, external forces, and secret societies – all these factions are clashing together over their own agenda and interests. Under such tension, the fragile peace at Astella is on the verge of sliding back into all-out conflicts.

In a world where time holds great power, a new species emerges with a unique gift. The Chronus possess the ability to control time itself through their special power, Chrono, and are bound to their human partners, the “Linked,” through the mysterious Chrono Pact.

Here in Astella, a young boy named Sid longs to escape this small harbor town and explore the world beyond, but his plans are abruptly interrupted when he finds himself caught up in a dangerous and mysterious case. With the help of his Chronus partner, Torii, Sid sets out on a thrilling journey that will test the limits of their bond and threaten to upend the very order of the world.

The Characters: Friends from Astella

Bringing their visions and beliefs, as well as their unique personalities and circumstances, various characters will join Sid and Torii in uncovering the long-kept mysteries of Astella.

As Sid, you have the power to forge alliances and shape your own personality through your actions and dialogue options. Do choose wisely, as your decisions will determine the fate of the various factions within Astella. Partner with those you trust and work together to overcome the looming storm that threatens the land.

The Combat: Forge Your Own Style: Customizable Weapons and Time-Bending Chrono Power

As Sid’s partner, Torii will also join the combat and fight alongside him. As they level up, players can choose different skills to master different combat styles. Also, with the progression of the story, the pair will be able to unlock new mechanisms.

As a powerful Chronus, Torii can unleash her special Chrono power to manipulate the time during combat anytime when you are at a disadvantage to turn the tide. Sid, on the other hand, can choose two weapons to equip at the same time, from a total of six distinct weapon types, each with its own upgrade path – Find the combat style that best suits you and battle some of the most fearful foes!

Watch the launch trailer below. View a new set of screenshots at the gallery.

Launch Trailer

English

Japanese

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[sunfoxfic]

One thing I noticed about this Hades Boon from Hades II..... it seems like his power makes the Cast more like Zagreus' Cast 👀

[kafkasgirlhood]

me making a kronos playlist: ok so i will be putting my liked songs on shuffle , let me know the songs you want ^_^

*5 beabadoobee songs in a row*

me:

kronos:

me: do you um.....want beabadoobee on there by any chance......

kronos: yes how did you know

[wheredomelodiescomefrom]

"The one who has taken your place, living in severe limitation and constant pain... is Chrono"

[brolyng]

Some of my smaller doodles and sketches from recent times. I have a lot but these are just some of my favorites!

[homestuckreplay]

It should be noted he was kind of a weird guy anyway.

(page 510-519)

8/20/2009 Wheel Spin: Sburb Lore Verdict: Literally The Sburb Lore Handbook :D

8/21/2009 Wheel Spin: Long Pesterlog Verdict: Dave WISHES John Would Pester Him Back

^ I have SO much love for this sequence on p.514-517, where John is unresponsive due to being controlled by the Wayward Vagabond, but the environment around him keeps changing due to Rose’s powers. It definitely enhances the reading experience to first do a full read of the pages, and then to just flick through and look at the images in sequence – it really highlights the visual gags and parallels like the one here.

We get out fourth GameFAQs entry on p.510, following our fourth ‘Years in the future…’ and it looks like a small page, but actually has fifteen images all accompanied with Rose’s commentary. She basically puts a bunch of images of John, along with his full name and his dead/resurrected grandmother, on the internet without their permission, which is questionable, but her insights definitely leave me with a lot to think about.

The house remaining powered by electricity and internet (images: ‘power,’ ‘internet’) makes complete sense to me. They’re inside the Medium, the medium of Sburb being ‘online multiplayer video game,’ and that medium requiring both electricity to power gaming devices, and internet to maintain a connection with the co-player, to operate. It’s not a kindness that the game gives to players, it’s literally necessary for the game to run, as we’ve already seen a few times with Rose.

That fact only makes Rose’s called shot about hackers (‘internet’) even more threatening. Disrupting the internet connection could disrupt the apparatus of the entire game, cutting Rose and John off from one another more permanently and potentially stopping Dave or the fourth player from joining the game. Sburb as a game is already dangerous enough, so navigating that and the outside threat of hackers at the same time could make for an intense, fast paced story and be a great direction for the comic.

And with these Wayward Vagabond/GameFAQs pages always kept together, it raises the question: is the Vagabond a hacker? A hacker in the popular definition is somebody who gains unauthorized access to computer systems – to gain information, to spread a virus, or perhaps to influence the outcome of a game. Found covered by sand in the middle of a dormant wasteland, this bunker, and its accompanying computer system, doesn’t look like somewhere the Vagabond is supposed to be. They’ve already put John in danger by taking away his mental faculties and making him susceptible to imp attacks. If they can sever John’s connection with Rose while still controlling him, he’ll be in a lot of danger. And while the Vagabond seems silly for now in their quest for a can opener and their trial-and-error commands on p.253, they’re clearly a quick learner, having picked up the standards of human etiquette reasonably well very quickly. It’s not out of the question that they could be learning to hack the game – and could perhaps be a villain of the story.

Rose’s other big called shot is that she can’t see John’s dad’s room because John has never been in there (‘hmm’). I buy this theory – the only other explanation I can think of is that the room needs to be ‘unlocked’ in game and won’t be accessible to either player until John reaches a high enough level, perhaps because it contains clues to Dad’s whereabouts. That’s the less sinister explanation. Rose’s idea is more sinister, because it again reinforces how Sburb isn’t just connected to/able to see John’s physical location, it’s able to see inside his mind and respond to that. I genuinely think that with a different tone and art style, this could easily be a horror story.

Rose quotes Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls (‘steeds’) to describe John’s pogo antics, which despite its goth title, is not a horror novel but is instead about a man trying to commit tax fraud. It’s a famous 19th century Russian novel that was left unfinished when Gogol burned a large part of his own manuscript, but remains famous and widely regarded as a work of satire. I’m fifty fifty on whether Rose googled ‘quotes about horses’ and picked the smartest sounding one to caption her screencap of her friend spraying shaving cream while bopping an imp on the head, or if a ten year old Rose used to curl up on that giant living room couch and read Russian literature while listening to the waterfall flowing below. Both options are very funny to me. I am almost buying into Rose’s mysterious persona. (And then she puts a crumpled hat on John’s head and I remember that she is also a big dork).

I have been mean to Rose at times but she is really carrying the team right now, and doing an incredible job multitasking killing imps with furniture, building onto John’s house, and updating her walkthrough for other players. I totally buy that she’s someone who just throws herself into what she’s doing to distract herself from the looming meteor threat. But I think she should do some research into building safety codes, because I’m not sure those ladders and platforms held up by chimneys are going to be stable long term, or safe for John to start climbing. I guess Rose was warned about stairs but nobody got around to warning her about ladders.

[deathafterdeathafterdeath]

Crono, Frog, and Marle - in Elden Ring!

[voxmilia]

shout out to pacthesis sapphics, gotta be one of my favorite genders

[ask-valiant-victory]

@ask-the-lywelles Vahni@Valiant

The umbreon would seem surprised when she looked at Valiant

Vahni: "You, I can actually see you, I don't see your soul? It's, odd, I can actually see your details and not just the flat colors of a soul."

She didn't seem as shy as she normally was, though she was still invisible.

Valiant seemed disappointed at what Vahni said, hearing it aloud didn't feel very nice. He already knew that. But, Instead of the Zoroark replying further Valor spoke up in place of him.

"There are different types of souls, and his is just one that can be personalized to a god's liking. It's not gonna look the same but it is there." The mew sighed, "You can blame Arceus for that one. Valiant's doing the best he can."

[satoshi-mochida]

Souls of Chronos releases today digitally for the PS5, Switch and Steam.

[yonemurishiroku]

Wondering if Aeon’s despair has sent any of those numerous realms he had crossed into oblivion upon not finding Ananke - for him to say such a thing

[okaydrawboy]

My favorite games list top 10:

Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen

Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord

Age of Empires II

Dragon Quest VII (Dragon Warrior VII)

King of Dragon Pass

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Soul Calibur V

Total War: Rome II

Unicorn Overlord

Chrono Cross

[starwarspissorgy]

I've been joking about the dog with a sword from dark souls and the frog with a sword from chrono trigger being friends for years, but it's just now hitting me how in character for both of them it would be for Frog to meet puppy Sif early on and have a little adventure then encounter him a thousand years later still loyal but now very big and the guardian of the masamune and I kind of want to write it tbh

[aberooski]

I had a dream last night and I don't remember anything about it except that Crowler showed up at one point and whatever was going on he was like scolding me and whoever else was there for like bugging him or something and literally I was like "guys knock it off leave dad alone"

EVEN IN MY D R E A M S I REFER TO CROWLER AS "DAD" WHAT THE FUCK ✋😭

[ethernalium]

when the final boss says it's going to kill me but I already beat the new game plus ultra secret boss: