Guardian Recall (ガーディアンリコール 〜守護獣召喚〜), launched 10/1/1998, developed by Agmix, printed by Xing
This recreation was initially launched for PC98 in 1996 as an eroge; the Ps port is a whole (all ages) remake. I don’t know all the main points of the unique recreation nevertheless it appears like each the battle system and the story had been extensively redone.
The fundamental premise of the sport is that every one the characters can summon Guardian Beasts that truly combat for them (it’s mainly Stands from Jojo). You’ll be able to instantly management your human folks, however they will’t instantly assault. All of the attacking must be performed by the Guardians, who can solely be managed by AI settings. The AI system has extra care put into it than a number of the different AI-based video games I’ve performed, however in the long run I believe I simply favor to manage my characters.
The entire primary characters and non-grunt enemies are feminine, with no in-world reasoning (they don’t even attempt to clarify it, I assume when it’s an eroge no one cares).
The sport takes place over 40 phases in 5 chapters. The primary two chapters are parallel in time and could be performed in both order, however after that you simply play the opposite 3 sequentially.
Every character has three primary level swimming pools, which they share with their guardian. SP is hit factors. MP is used to challenge instructions to the guardians — when it reaches 0, you lose management over the guardian and it begins attacking randomly (I believe you may nonetheless recollect it although even when it does this). AP is for the spells that the human characters can use.
You select your AI command from a listing, that grows as you degree up. The quantity is the quantity of MP it makes use of per flip (which is elevated if the guardian is much away from the human). The AI command not solely impacts how the guardian will act, but in addition will shift the stats of the guardian. The fundamental AI command is “shield me”, which can trigger the guardian to remain close to the human and solely assault close by models. A number of the different instructions are “assault!” (which can ship them out), “heal”, “transfer to a selected level”, and “don’t do something.”
So you may’t assure that your guardian will do precisely what you need, however you may shift it to make it extra probably. There may be additionally a bent for guardians to assault one another moderately than going for the people, though they’ll go for the people in some circumstances.
The guardians have an elemental (of 8), and there’s the usual compatibility chart between components. Additionally they have ranks in varied varieties of assaults, beginning with D (which implies they will’t do it in any respect) as much as S. The numbers after the rank present how the guardian will develop after they rank up (so within the image above, Pochi might be going to be Quick S, Lengthy C or perhaps B, and Heal C on the subsequent rank up). Additionally they get some particular skills that activate in sure circumstances.
The sport works on a typical participant/enemy flip system. Every flip, every human character can do three issues in any order — transfer, change AI setting, and both use an merchandise or a spell. The guardian will act once you finish your flip (or when you select “perform order” within the AI menu).
There are hidden objects on the map (I don’t know why that is such a typical factor in SRPGs, who determined this was an excellent recreation factor?) You may as well get loads of bonus objects from utilizing the “discuss” potential, both between your individual characters or between you and the enemies. Those the place you must discuss to the enemies are sometimes fairly troublesome to get as a result of you must maneuver your people to the opposite people with out getting killed (or with out killing the enemy), which could be tough. I’ve discovered it not very value it, though if the sport will get tougher later I would remorse not getting extra objects.
Many of the dialogue is just not voiced, however there are a good variety of anime sequences, a few of that are moderately lengthy.
To date I’ve solely performed the primary two chapters (16 phases). The story doesn’t develop an entire lot on this phase, it principally simply introduces the characters and the fundamental state of affairs. The enemy group, referred to as Egubado, is making an attempt to trigger chaos and probably destroy Japan. I imagine that they had been the reason for a giant earthquake in 1999 (this takes place in 2017 or so). Seven of the ladies in your workforce had been all born in 1999 they usually get referred to as by the Dragon Spirits — at the moment our objective is simply to seek out all of the dwelling locations of these spirits and awaken them.
So I’ve 24 extra phases.
One different challenge with this recreation that will get introduced up lots is that it’s moderately sluggish. You’ll be able to thankfully flip off animations besides it takes a very long time for all the pieces to occur, and cargo occasions are lengthy. Duckstation is environment friendly sufficient that I can get an excellent emulator speedup, so it’s not as unhealthy as it will be on an actual console (because of this my score system is unfair to Saturn video games, however that’s one other challenge….)
