About This Game After awakening from her coffin, Arra recalls little but the last words spoken by her father, “Destroy the Amber Throne.” Looking into the sky, she finds what was once his magnificent castle is now floating in the sky, far above the world below. Arra must find a way to reach the castle before others catch wind of it, lest the powerful Amber Throne fall into the wrong hands. Amber Throne is a traditional JRPG-styled game that focuses on turn-based battling and some light exploration. The game features a large cast of unique monsters that change stances depending on actions taken during combat, and a party with mostly mixed hybrid roles to deal with them. Learning monster behavior and how your skills affect them is essential to reaching victory. Fully painted world with diverse settings and unique characters. Many monsters with multiple stances and behaviors to master. Five party members each with their own skills and advantages. Crafting for the game's best equipment and items. 12-15 hour-long story with optional content and exploration.The game is a bit more atmospheric and ambient than most JRPG-styled games, with emphasis on theme and mood, hopefully making it feel a bit different to experience!ControlsShift to RunArrow Keys to MoveZ / Enter to ConfirmX / Esc For Main Menu Or CancelF5 For FullscreenD+hold For Skipping Dialogue 7aa9394dea Title: The Amber ThroneGenre: Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPGDeveloper:Joshua MissilePublisher:Joshua MissileRelease Date: 6 Jul, 2015 The Amber Throne Download] Nice and relaxing, good original plot but a bit repetitive.. This game impressed me right away with it's beautiful artstyle and simple but still deep battle system. Two hours in and I'm still as hooked as I was when I started. If you like old Playstation 1 Japanese RPGs then you'll love this. So far it's on par with all of those classics.. The Amber Throne is simply awesome. Beautiful music and visuals and great story. The skill and equipment system allows you to choose from a lot of different tactics to use and the characters you play all have diverse fighting styles.The "gamebraking" bugs some talk about are actually very easy to workaround: just save the game often. Only the autosaves are sometimes broken so if you save every 5-10 minutes yourself you won´t encounter any major problems during the playthrough.If the game looks even a bit like something you might like, I highly recommend it.. I can wholeheartedly recommend this for anyone with even a passing interest in JRPG-style games. Steam is loaded with RPG Maker games that rush to compare themselves to Final Fantasy VI and Chrono Trigger at every given opportunity, but The Amber Throne is the exception both in being confident enough to sell itself on its own merits and, ironically, in being brilliant enough to actually deserve mention alongside the classics. Story:The Amber Throne is the story of an entire world, and as a result the focus is less on the characters that what you'd typically expect from a JRPG-like. The 5 playable characters are all well-written and interesting, but they exist to strength the story of Arra and the planet itself rather than to be traditional leads. The story is fond of only telling you what you need to know at any given moment, and it's absolutely loaded with symbolism that only makes sense in context of events you learn about later. It takes effort to fully understand and appreciate at times, but having finished it I can safely say it's among the best RPG stories I've ever played. Gameplay:Never the focus of a JRPG, but it's actually pretty good. AT's battle system is an agility-determined turn-based system that sets itself apart by having loads of skills and absolutely no requirements to use them. Initially, this seems like a questionable decision, since you'll only have a handful of abilities and little reason not to just spam the same ones in every fight. Thankfully, it gets much more interesting later on when you have more characters and full ability loadouts for each of them. It's further enhanced by the introduction of enemies that change states both on their own and as a result of the attacks you use. State changes have an accompanying shift in battle sprite and, especially by late game, can force you to adopt a completely different strategy while they're active. Skills are unlocked by the player. You get 50JP to spend per character with each level up, and since most skills cost 100JP, you effectively get a new skill every two levels. Most characters have 5-6 classes of skills that unlock partially linearly, and there's generally a huge variety between and within character skillsets. Better yet, the game subverts the trope about powerful skills with no actual use. Although some enemies may be more resistant to attacks than others, all skills are usable on every enemy in the game. Even the final boss is vulnerable to your status effects and traps. Beyond skills, characters are highly customizble through gear and craftable purchasable upgrades. Stat boosts on armor and accessories can be pretty dramatic, so it's possible to significantly alter a character's function in battle with the right gear. The one complaint I have with regard to the combat is that there's no XP leak. I never used the game's final two characters because they were already horribly underleveled by the time I got to them, and there wasn't an easy way of catching them up. Area progression is almost entirely linear, but individual levels usually have a decent amount to explore, and there are optional dungeons scattered throughout the game. There's apparently even an entire uber-boss quest that I missed entirely. Someone who really went all out on exploration and side content could probably get another 3-4 hours out of the game. There's no real reason to play a second time, but I felt I got more than my money's worth from my ~10 hours. Sound:Phenomenal. Every track fits its environment perfectly, and there are a frankly incredible number of them considering the game's price and length. Save for a glitch that occasionally results in area music continuing to play during a battle, I really don't have any to criticize here. Graphics:Equally phenomenal. They combine with the sound to create one of the most atmospheric games I've ever played. The screenshots really don't do it justice - there are some incredibly creative and well-realized locales and creatures in this game. Even the good RPG Maker games I've played have always had that "look" that betrayed the engine's identiy, but AT looks truly unique. The art and soundtrack were both done by one person each, amazingly. All that being said, I do have one complaint about the graphics: RPG Maker has limitations on the number of frams in character animations, which unfortunately means character motion on the overworld looks a bit silly. Not a big deal, but it stands out when everything else is perfect. Conclusion:I haven't been this surprised by a game's quality for years. It's one of the best RPGs on Steam - or any other platform - and thoroughly deserving of your attention. Hopefully we'll see much more from this developer.. This was a very nice game. The soundtrack is great and the story is good. The graphics are beautiful.. First I want to say that this game looks amazing, in a time when almost all RPG maker games scrap every bit of game from tutorials and online assets this game is like a daVinci piece in a museum of crayon scriblings. But when you get into the game it's just not fun. Every bit of the presentation is cranked to 11 but the story and gameplay get tired near the end. This is a problem I find with a lot of JRPGs but the story seems liked it should have ended a long time before it actually does. If you play this game do yourself a favor and (Spoilers for a RPG maker game no one cares about) after you get back to Karra after treking throughout the Sunken City and kill the white mage just look the ending up on Youtube, it will save you about 6-9 hours of your life (Protip: there is a difference between raising excitment for the final hurdle by pushing it back and delaying the story for a bunch of bull$#!% reasons).. Simple yet lovely game. Great story, although playing more than 2 hours at once makes you feel it's little repetitive.
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