Replace [Wed 31st Jan, 2024 13:30 GMT]: In accordance with the newest concern of Famitsu, Riviera: The Promised Land will probably be launching on Change on twenty eighth February 2024 in Japan (through Gematsu & Ryokutya2089). A Western launch continues to be but to be confirmed.
Evidently the upcoming port of the GBA and WonderSwan Colour cult traditional has dropped ‘Remaster’ from the title, and is now simply going by its authentic title. The Change remaster will probably be based mostly on the PSP model of the sport, however with “the Good Elements of the WonderSwan and Sport Boy Advance variations” together with an entire host of enhancements.
These enhancements, which have been shared by developer Sting on Twitter over the previous few months, embody a number of background music sources, adjusted consumer interface and dialogue, the flexibility to avoid wasting anyplace, extra issue choices, merchandise synthesis, and extra.
We’re retaining our fingers crossed for this — and the remainder of the Dept. Heaven video games — to come back to Change within the West.
Authentic article [Wed 12th Jul, 2023 15:30 BST]: The primary entry in Sting’s Dept. Heaven sequence is getting an HD remaster. Making the announcement on Twitter, developer Sting revealed {that a} remaster of Riviera: The Promised Land is within the works. Platforms have not been introduced but, however we hope we’ll see it come to Change. (Thanks, Gematsu).
Riviera: The Promised Land first launched in Japan on the WonderSwan Colour on twelfth July 2002, which implies right now is the sport’s twenty first anniversary — an apt day for an announcement like this. The West would not get their fingers on it till the Sport Boy Advance model dropped in 2005 in North America. PAL areas needed to wait till the PSP port in 2008.
Within the recreation, you play a Grim Angel known as Ein, who’s accompanied by 4 heroines — Fia, Lina, Seren, and Cierra. Alongside along with his acquainted Rose, Ein should seal away the Accursed to avoid wasting the world. Sting is understood for its very distinctive RPGs, and Riviera is not any totally different.
Riviera differs from many conventional turn-based RPGs in that you simply get to decide on your combatants earlier than each single battle, choose the gadgets you should use (you’ll be able to decide as much as 16), and decide between the Assault or Magic Formation. You additionally do not get to discover the dungeons in the identical manner, with every dungeon “display” having choices and triggers which let you go searching, work together with the surroundings, and combat enemies.
This is not the primary recreation within the Dept. Heaven sequence that has seen a remaster lately. Knights within the Nightmare — a cult traditional on the DS — bought a remaster on Change final yr, nevertheless, it is presently solely out there in Japan. It is the identical story with 2020’s Yggdra Union remaster, which can be solely out there in Japan on Change, however that one acquired a worldwide launch on Steam in February 2023.