An RPG with rare visual charm, like animated stained glass, built on seeing past, present and future on screen at once. The time concept is brilliant on paper, but a sluggish, soft combat pace holds back the magic.
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Category
RPG1 player7+
Description
Crisbell, gifted with time powers, journeys to stop a cursed queen from destroying everything. Published by Modus, released worldwide in 2021. Turn-based fights where past, present and future act on each foe, choices that reshape the world and hand-painted art.
Cris Tales (Definitive) review
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Art direction
★★★★★
"Iconic"
4/5
Music
★★★★★
"Excellent"
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Story
★★★★★
"Masterful"
The hand-drawn fairy tale unfolds in full splendour: picture-book illustration, shimmering colours and a screen split between past, present and future. This complete edition crowns a unique visual idea, where every scene tells three eras in a single glance.
A young orphan discovers she can see the past, present and future in a single glance, within a fairy-tale world coloured like stained glass. This temporal mechanic runs through the whole story: changing yesterday to rewrite tomorrow becomes a moral dilemma as much as an adventure. The narration, gentle and melancholic, speaks of hope and consequences with rare elegance. This visual and narrative poetry leaves a lasting imprint.
Gameplay
"Excellent"
Fun
"Pleasant"
Addictiveness
"Captivating"
Difficulty
"Easy"
Lifespan
"Massive"
An enriched take on the time-bending tale, this Definitive Edition gathers fixes, rebalancing and tweaks that make the adventure flow more smoothly from start to finish. Still split between past, present and future on one screen, the journey rewards those who test every consequence of their choices. Watching a world evolve from your decisions remains the engine that prolongs this colourful epic.
Technical info
💾8 GB📅20/07/2021
Published by Modus
Cris Tales (Definitive) (Nintendo Switch) price, value & rarity
What sets its battles apart is the time mechanic: past, present and future coexist on screen, and each enemy can be manipulated across all three at once. Aging armor, hastening a strike or delaying a threat turns turn-based combat into a living puzzle. The bosses demand you juggle eras, producing clashes of rare elegance.
