![]() Now, you can go all in for every battle – and it feels good. Gone are the days where you spam the attack command for normal enemies while saving your big guns for the boss battle. For one, it allows you to always go all out on every battle without having to ration out specific abilities. ![]() This may not seem like a big deal, but damn does this change things. Third, and maybe, maybe the most easy to miss, is that at the end of every battle, your health and TP (magic) are fully restored to the max. More Chained Echoes that is… not Disney Star Wars If you do a special attack though you will go out of the red and back into the green. You need to heal your team but that will keep you in the red. And it will make you really question some of your decisions. The overdrive mechanic forces you to use moves that you may never normally use to help bring you back into the green. This is such an important addition because in other RPGs, there is almost always an optimal strategy that you can repeat with each of your characters. Being in the red lowers both your attack and defense, so you want to get out of it as quickly as possible because it truly is a death sentence. Your ultimate goal is to keep your overdrive in the green section of the play area, because doing so boosts your defense and your attacks. This is a sliding scale that moves in different directions according to what moves you use and whether you take a hit. ![]() Just like any turn-based system, players take turns attacking, but Chained Echoes has three major changes that radically change the gameplay.įirst and most importantly is the overdrive mechanic in the top left corner of the picture below. Enemies are at set places on the map and when you walk near them you will jump into an encounter. Like Chrono Trigger, gone are the days of random encounters. Let’s look at the combat system to show you what I mean. But it also builds upon the ideas of what those games are and makes the gaming experience better in almost every way. ![]() Chained Echoes is a turn-based role playing game that – in its core – is straight from the 16-bit era. ![]()
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