A cute dungeon crawler, Elrentaros Wanderings takes you on an journey between two worlds. You play as a younger adventurer who explores dungeons, defeats monsters, protects the townsfolk and infrequently pays a go to to the varsity you attend in a unique, much less thrilling world.
The vast majority of the sport takes place within the fantasy world of Elrentaros. You camp exterior city as you earn the belief of the locals. At the beginning of the sport, there’s one mysterious dungeon on the fringe of city. As you progress, you unlock extra till there are a complete of six. The primary 5 dungeons have varied missions you may full to achieve cash, gear, and particular gadgets that you need to use to help folks within the city. The sixth consists solely of boss fights.
Befriending the assorted townsfolk is a mechanic in itself. When you may have spoken to them sufficient instances, accomplished sufficient missions for them, and raised your likeability degree sufficient, you may equip them as a help. This presents you boons to your dungeon runs equating to presents you’ve given them.
The forms of missions it’s important to full match into broadly comparable classes. As an illustration, unlocking all of the warp panels to the bonus rooms, finishing the dungeon with gear of a sure degree or under, or avoiding or profitable with a specific kind of assault. Which means that, later within the sport, you may be capable of guess your manner into finishing some missions in your first try (finishing a dungeon with out your HP dropping to 0 is a normal first mission), but it surely’s uncommon to get by them unexpectedly. This provides you a purpose to return into every dungeon attempting out several types of weapons and being cautious of various enemies.
Every dungeon in Elrentaros Wanderings is made up of quite a lot of levels to discover and a boss battle. As you full the missions, you unlock new variants of the identical dungeons with extra highly effective monsters spawning elsewhere, with new missions and larger rewards. The dungeon layouts stay the identical every time, so there’s a threat that the sport can get a bit repetitive, particularly when you get caught on a difficult mission that’s blocking the story from progressing.
Nevertheless, the dungeons are very superbly designed, every with a definite type, making them genuinely enjoyable to discover a number of instances with out getting uninteresting. That is complemented by fluid animation and daring designs on the subject of the enemies you face and the strikes they use. Monsters are unbearably cute, based mostly on wild animals, with completely different creatures equivalent to completely different basic social gathering lessons, starting from cute little bunnies and birds to monstrous swine and floating octopodes.
The factors at which new challenges unlock are staggered cleverly so you may’t bounce straight to the following issue degree of 1 dungeon with out utilizing a unique dungeon as a stepping stone. This introduces a pure ingredient of selection to the sport that flows comfortably with the narrative.
As a substitute of leveling up your character, you decide up gear with various ranges and particular skills that you could unlock. This implies you may problem your self to attempt a tougher dungeon utilizing decrease degree gear if you wish to actually take a look at your self exterior of the story.
Dialogue in Elrentaros Wanderings is extra of a visible novel than a really interactive expertise. There are a handful of dialogue choices on your character, however they don’t have a huge effect on the story. However in any other case this side is crafted effectively sufficient. All of the characters are effectively designed and written, with distinct appears to be like, personalities and methods of connecting to the protagonist as you get to know them.
The sections that participate within the “actual” world in school might as effectively not exist. There isn’t any motion to it; it’s all dialog with only a few dialogue choices, so may be clicked straight by with minimal penalties to the general sport. It’s nonetheless effectively written and the relationships simply established, with a enjoyable parallel to their visible equivalents within the fantasy world. However you spend significantly much less time in school, and the shortage of motion means you’re feeling much less engaged in that world. On the finish, you get the choice to decide on which world to remain in, however the selection doesn’t really feel like one with a lot weight.