Rise Eterna

[h1]登場人物の倫理観が逸脱しすぎているとプレイヤーは話についていけなくなるのだと学んだ[/h1] ＜昔買ってレビューを書いていなかった作品。通常のレビューより簡素＞ 文化の違いなんだろうか。 ゲームのシナリオは一般的に制作チームの誰かが書いている。 物語というのは著者の知らないことは書けない。 当たり前だ。 だから物語の人物や価値観は隠そうと思っていてもどうしても著者の思想や価値観が入り込む。 それは人が作っている以上仕方のないことだ。 そして価値観の中には「倫理観」も含まれる。 日本であれば「道徳」というものを親族や周りが教えてくれる。また古くからは「お天道様が見ている」と言われて道徳的によろしくない行動を戒める文化が培われている。 アメリカであれば倫理観は宗教と一体化で教えられていてキリスト教を学ぶ過程で倫理を学ぶという土壌が存在している。 そういったもののなかには共通認識が刷り込まれているので場所が違っても同じ国ならある程度の共通認識を持っている。 ところが本作はなかなかどうかしていて何食わぬ顔で罪のない人々を虐殺するシーンがあって、初めて見たときは二度見どころか三度見した。 誤字か誤訳か疑ったが思えば序盤からシナリオには不思議な違和感を覚えていた。 作品世界の価値観と言ってしまえばそれまでだが、命が軽いというか「戦場を知る者は本人の中で大義があれば他人の命を奪ってもいい」という共通認識のエゴイズムがあるかのような世界なのだ。 本作は調べてみるとフランスとポーランドの会社が作ったものなのだろうが、シナリオ担当をした人がどういう文化で育ったのか、大変興味がある作品だった。

With so many games inspired by Fire Emblem on Steam, you need something special to stand out. Whether it's graphics, fancy mechanics or an amazing story, you need a way to draw people in. So it's hard to see what Rise Eterna went for, since the game looks and feels okay, but doesn't try to innovate in any way. The art style is decent. There's nothing visually impressive about the maps that look very rudimentary, like what you'd see in older Fire Emblems, but the 14 characters are varied and well designed. They have different special combat skills, and some of them benefit from standing next to their friends in combat, for added bonuses. The story is rather classic. Themes of betrayal and alliances between kingdoms are common in these kinds of games, but it has enough twists to keep you engaged until the end. That is... If you can put up with low quality dialogues. Between weird sentences, insults being thrown left and right as well as a lot of pointless chit-chat... The game would have benefited from better writing. Scavenging is another neat part of the game, with item drops obtained from certain spots on the map, chests, or enemies. You can then craft potions, bombs, or even permanent stats buffs with the rarer materials, but they're not that useful and getting what you need always comes down to luck. Those are only minor inconveniences, and Rise Eterna could have been another satisfactory game for the genre, if it wasn't for one mechanic (or lackthereof, actually)... Because units don't retaliate during combat... And that's a major issue. It drastically reduces the strategic elements, such as placing your characters, planning ahead, blocking the enemy's path, taking advantage of ranged units... It doesn't make the game unplayable, but every fight lacks a little... something. Other shortcomings almost feel secondary in comparison : there's no leveling system, you simply get a skill point for every new map a character beats. Every mission has simplistic objectives, whether it be to kill everyone, kill the boss, or reach the exit. Deadly in the early game, the traps scattered around the maps remain obnoxiously annoying until the very end, taking up time at the start of every turn and requiring rare materials to heal from. Finally, the uneven difficulty also has to be mentioned. Really easy at the beginning, the game gets quite tricky a few missions later, until your characters become overpowered half-way through the game, making any further challenge disappear. Rise Eterna has the looks of Fire Emblem, and almost feels like it. Until you get into actual combat, and realize that neither your characters nor the enemies retaliate when they're attacked. The rest of the game is all right, but the absence of such an important mechanic affects everything else, dragging it down. An unremarkable [b] 5[/b]. It's a shame, but I don't think Rise Eterna is really worth playing.