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Smith, so if you liked the fancy archaic dialogue of, say, Final Fantasy 12 (another previous translation work of Smith), you’ll feel right at home in this game as well. The game was localized by veteran Matsuno translator Alexander O. The story, in a nutshell, concerns three adventurers-for-hire: the warrior Giauque, the rogue Lippi and the young sorceress Frea (serving as your permanent three-member party for the entire game), who are hired to enter an old, decaying ruin to search for an ancient tome that might be connected to the legendary “Crimson Shroud”, one of the oldest magical artifacts (so-called “gifts”) left in the world.Ĭrimson Shroud -the game, I mean- is basically supposed to be an homage to tabletop roleplaying games, most notably Dungeons and Dragons - all characters appear as little figurines (meaning they don’t actually move in cutscenes or battle, but rather awkwardly wobble around) progressing on the labyrinthine map with a blueprint straight out of any DnD campaign worth its salt, while the story itself is told via carefully phrased narration aimed to simulate what it would be like to sit at a table and listen to a game master ramble in eloquent prose.

CRIMSON SHROUD ROM FULL

Here are my thoughts on it after two full playthroughs.Ĭrimson Shroud was originally released as one of the games included in the collection Guild 01, but is now available as a separate eShop download. Legendary game designer Yasumi Matsuno (Vagrant Story, Tactics Ogre, FF Tactics, FF12) returns on the 3DS with his latest project, a short and sweet dungeon crawler / tabletop RPG homage released back in 2012 while he was still working with Level 5.

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