6/12/2023 0 Comments Stella glow archibald![]() More about that in the gameplay section, since that’s an annoyance. If you max out your relationship with a certain character before all the deaths start happening and they leave the party, the true ending route opens up. Maxing out characters gives access to their endings, too, but there are various characters who’re mutually exclusive in that sense until a second run. This actually increases their effectiveness in battle. The witch endings are romantic, of course.īetween missions, you have chances to hang out with each character. I’ll omit the description of the third act, but I will say there are endings with each character. ![]() But it turns out you’ve been had, several characters die (some of which were quite tragic – they did NOT seem like the sort of characters to die), the Harbingers were the good guys all along, the real enemy appears, and nobody trusts you anymore. ![]() When all is said and done, the witches sing the Anthem and you’ve captured the Harbingers. Not only do you get the plot relief, she appears right in the nick of time and can suddenly heal all of your units at once. Let’s not mince words – the storytelling through gameplay here was phenomenal. That plus the strict item limits leave you barely surviving as you try to do what you must to save her. A merchant party member named Ewan can also heal at the cost of money, but you likely didn’t level him, and his healing range is terrible, so he’s more a burden. While Popo has some weak healing to try to stand in, she definitely pales in comparison to Lisette. Lisette is both your healer in battle and your “sister”, so you definitely feel the pressure in both plot and gameplay. She’s basically in the hospital for the first half of the second act of the game, which is where things start falling apart. She was told that this was in order to gain forgiveness and to aid the people of the town… who have no idea that she’s the reason they’ve been prospering, treating her with scorn whenever she enters town.Īfter you have all four witches, Lisette still can’t sing, and is attacked. Not only that, she’s been tricked into using her magic to help spin windmills faster, which are secretly being used to create mopium (not!heroin). To give an example of how bad things are for them, Wind Witch Popo has basically been branded as evil for no real reason, being and banished to the outskirts of town. They then join, and this continues until you have all four. The first act of the story effectively consists of locating the witches one at a time, each of which are in terrible situations (except arguably Fire Witch Sakuya), and resolving them. Lisette can’t sing just yet, which is concerning, but that is set aside for the present. To do this, they need to find the four elemental witches, the first of which is Lisette. It’s at this point that they’re picked up by the kingdom’s army and join a special regiment that seeks to sing the Anthem to decrystalize the population of the kingdom and stop the Harbingers. The two eventually drive the Harbingers off in a process they don’t seem to understand themselves, but what is clear is that Lisette is now a witch and Alto appears to have some sort of ability relating to witches. Everyone but Alto and his “sister” Lisette are turned to crystal by Hilda’s Song of Destruction. One of the families there take him in, but it is eventually attacked by Time Witch Hilda, and her allies the Harbingers. The plot of this game concerns amnesiac hero Alto, who’s found in a lake near a small village. Well, why not start with the story? It takes place in a world where songs are restricted to magical use only (think Ar tonelico, Surge Concerto or imageepoch’s own Luminous Arc). ![]() Will this final game of theirs be an exception, or more of the same? Plot After delivering the final build of the Japanese release of this game, the president of the company went missing, and it later came to light that the company was bankrupt. It is the swansong of imageepoch, a developer who honestly did not release a single game I enjoyed throughout their entire existence. It’s been a while, but it’s time for Under Your Radar! This time, we’ll be discussing Stella Glow, a 3DS game released in June 2015 in Japan by Sega, localized for North America in November by Atlus, and and finally released in PAL regions in March 2016 by NIS America. Hikari no Metamorphosis (English ver.) by Konomi Suzuki
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