When you think of smartphone games, the social aspect tends to loom large—they've often placed great emphasis on gathering players of the same game for raid battles and co-op play.
That's still true of smartphone games today, but Another Eden, which I'm introducing this time, is a fully single-player-only smartphone game that strips out the social elements like a traditional console game, and when it released it was quite a shock.
You'll see many parts that homage that masterpiece 'Chrono Trigger,' like frogs showing up and journeys through time and space.
And no wonder—the main scenario writer is a man named Masato Kato, the very person who handled the scenarios for 'Chrono Trigger' and its sequel 'Chrono Cross.'
Let me introduce the synopsis you're curious about.
Aldo, who lives in the green village of Baruoki, sets off on a journey through time and space across the past, present, and future, sparked by his younger sister Feinne being carried off by a beast. Will Aldo manage to rescue his sister Feinne and stop the bizarre phenomenon known as time-space fluctuation?
Put simply, that's the story.
However, this story is only part of the main scenario. Currently you can play through Part 3 of the main story, plus all of the side stories. Unlike ordinary social games, there are no limited-time events—once an event occurs, it stays available to take on whenever you like. This is probably this game's greatest strength.
Collaboration events and the like usually can't be played anymore once they've had a single rerun, but here too, without exception, you can play them all at any time. The collaboration events playable to date are 'Octopath Traveler,' 'Tales series,' 'Chrono Cross,' and 'Persona 5 Royal.' (Only Tales has been run twice.)
If I had to name a downside, it might be the lack of the seasonal limited-time events that are a staple of social games.
Let's take a look at the score.
The one heavily promoted in the advertising is Yasunori Mitsuda, who—like the aforementioned scenario writer Kato—handled the music for 'Chrono Trigger,' 'Chrono Cross,' and more. But strictly speaking, the composers from 'Procyon Studio,' which Mitsuda heads, handle the music: of the 60 total tracks, Yasunori Mitsuda made 6, Shunsuke Tsuchiya made 32, and Mariam Abounnasr made 22.
Being titled Original Soundtrack 1, every track is one used frequently, so as you play you'll keep hearing songs you recognize from somewhere.
The track you could call the main theme, 'Another Eden ~The Cat Beyond Time and Space~,' is by Yasunori Mitsuda, and it plays at the cool part of the OP.
And when it comes to the signature track of Shunsuke Tsuchiya, who composed the most pieces, I agonized over it, but it has to be this song you'll hear most while logged in.
The title is 'O Slain Time, O Slain People.'
Well then, let's part ways while you watch the Another Eden teaser and so on.
Quoted from the official site https://another-eden.jp/index.html
