
Nevertheless, beneath its dated visuals, C hronology contains one of the finest role-playing adventures on 3DS - a platform that’s seen no end of great RPGs. In terms of overhauls, this is certainly no Metroid: Samus Returns. The visuals now make use of the 3DS’ higher resolution character portraits have been replaced with generic anime renditions battle icons display more detailed tactical information.

It offers few technical improvements over a DS game that hardly pushed that system’s limits.

This would seem to make Historia both an unlikely selection for a remake and, at the same time, a perfect candidate for one.īy looks alone, Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology for the Nintendo 3DS doesn’t do much to excite. For all that Historia did well, though, the game as a whole never quite jelled, and the package added up to a little less than the sum of its admittedly compelling parts. Radiant Historia, a 2010 role-playing game developed by Atlus for the Nintendo DS, had a lot going for it: a clever combat system, a complex narrative and great moment-to-moment character writing.
