Genre: Strategy, Adventure, Hack and Slash, Comedy, JRPG.
Platform: PC
Demographic: For people over 16 years and older. This game is to people that love pixel art, a great challenge and optimize their team to be prepared for every situation.
Game Description: After someone dies, don’t you wonder what happens? “After opening my eyes, I see her. Sitting in a chair, a lady with white hair talks to me.” When someone dies, that person is reincarnated in another world, the world of Galexia. Galexia is known for being a phantasy world like the games and always being in control of the Demon Lord, Zanek and their 6 generals, every person that is reincarnated here is ordered to defeat him and get one wish form the goddess.
In this game you are Alex, an 18 year old man that died from being to careless and falling from the stairs of your house. Six months have passed since you got incarnated to this world and you decided that you will stay in the first town that you arrived, you got very rich by working hard and creating a machine that lets people travel fast by land.
One day having breakfast, you hear someone knock on the door of your house, that person is no other than the goddess that send you to this world. When you see her face you notice that she is very mad at you for not helping the world against the Demon Lord. You upset, with all the logical information that you have gathered in six months, you yell at her and explain your point of view. It’s basically impossible to win the war since the Demon army is larger by numbers and every time a general is killed the Demon Lord puts someone stronger. It’s pointless to try if the outcome is that you are going to get yourself killed. So you propose that it’s better to enjoy life while it last.
After hearing all your babbling, the goddess cast a spell of manipulation that makes your body move on his own, with this the goddess will give you and order and you will do it right away. During the day you will lend your strength in battle while trying not to die and during the night you will have your body back on your own, you will do as you please.
Gameplay Explanation: This game is a combination of hack and Slash and strategy that will let players create whatever kinds of teams they want, up to four heroes can get in a team. This games follows the classic JRPG style of every time you touch an enemy you will go to the battle right up. In battle you can move freely and attack your enemy, you will also have your own Special Moves that will let you have multiple combinations and make your own combos.
This game also has a new mechanic that we call “The Chain Battle or Die”, this mechanic is presented in battle when more than 2 groups of enemies want to attack you, once you defeat an whole group you will instantly battle the other group, but be careful since you and your allies will be exhausted after using your special moves that requires Energy Points (EP). To get better at this mechanic you will need various groups that will be always there to support you, you can have a total of 4 groups with 4 people in it.
“Try and Have Fun” mechanic is also implemented in this game. After giving your all, sacrificing yourself for the sake of this world that you love so much, you will have your “fun”. During the night you will be tired and your body cant with everything that has happen during the day. Use this opportunity to meet new heroes, create armor, weapons, optimizing your team or just sleep and get going to the next battle to save Galexia.
Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r11BM3PdGiw
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