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 infrequently pays a go to to the varsity 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 first 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’ll be able to full to realize cash, tools, and particular gadgets that you need to use to help individuals within the city. The sixth consists solely of boss fights.
Befriending the assorted townsfolk is a mechanic in itself. When you will have spoken to them sufficient instances, accomplished sufficient missions for them, and raised your likeability degree sufficient, you’ll be able to equip them as a assist. This presents you boons to your dungeon runs equating to items you’ve given them.
The varieties of missions it’s a must to full match into broadly comparable classes. As an example, unlocking all of the warp panels to the bonus rooms, finishing the dungeon with tools of a sure degree or under, or avoiding or successful with a specific sort of assault. Which means, later within the sport, you would possibly have the ability to guess your method into finishing some missions in your first try (finishing a dungeon with out your HP dropping to 0 is a typical first mission), but it surely’s uncommon to get via them . This offers you a motive to return into every dungeon attempting out various kinds of weapons and being cautious of various enemies.
Every dungeon in Elrentaros Wanderings is made up of quite a few levels 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 somewhere else, with new missions and better rewards. The dungeon layouts stay the identical every time, so there’s a threat that the sport can get a bit repetitive, particularly when you get caught on a difficult mission that’s blocking the story from progressing.
Nevertheless, the dungeons are very superbly designed, every with a definite type, making them genuinely enjoyable to discover a number of instances with out getting boring. That is complemented by fluid animation and daring designs relating to the enemies you face and the strikes they use. Monsters are unbearably cute, primarily based on wild animals, with completely different creatures equivalent to completely different basic get together courses, starting from lovely little bunnies and birds to monstrous swine and floating octopodes.
The factors at which new challenges unlock are staggered cleverly so you’ll be able to’t bounce straight to the following issue degree 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 tools with various ranges and particular talents you could unlock. This implies you’ll be able to problem your self to strive a tougher dungeon utilizing decrease degree tools if you wish to actually take a look at 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 to your character, however they don’t have a huge effect on the story. However in any other case this facet is crafted effectively sufficient. All of the characters are effectively 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 effectively not exist. There isn’t any motion to it; it’s all dialog with only a few dialogue choices, so will be clicked straight via with minimal penalties to the general sport. It’s nonetheless effectively 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 dearth of motion means you are feeling much less engaged in that world. On the finish, you get the choice to decide on which world to remain in, however the alternative doesn’t really feel like one with a lot weight.
