Love Letter To Classic JRPGs, Celestian Tales, Launches In August

If you’re the type that still games in the 16 bit era and never grew tired of the classic JRPGs of old, then indie developer Digital Tribe has a new title you might be interested in. Dubbed Celestian Tales: Old North, the game revels in its turn based battles, overheard view, and hand painted visuals – as well as its intriguing SaGa-esque multi story mechanic.

Letting you play as any one of six individual characters, Celestian Tales has whatever person you picked interact with the five you didn’t, creating an intertwining narrative that promises a great deal of replayability.

    Celestian Tales: Old North is a turn-based role-playing game with lush hand-painted environments, emotive character portraits, memorable characters, moral decisions and a sprawling engaging storyline that is told the eyes of six playable characters. Created in the traditional JRPG style, Celestian Tales: Old North allows players to become part of a diverse group of young warriors in training who must learn who they are and where they stand as they develop the skills they will need to survive the impending war from the Old North.
    Embark on an expansive journey of discovery wrought with conflict and moral choices where players take on the role of one of the six playable characters and follow their personal point of view of the events as they unfold. At times character stories will overlap with other characters’ or converge with the main story arc, in which they experience events together.
    One’s truth may not be another’s. Good deeds done by someone may be perceived by another as evil. Often we see only what we want to see and believe only in what we want to believe. Whose steps will you follow as you journey in the Old North? Through whose eyes will you experience the events that unfold?

The game is due this August 11th and, once its pre-order goes up, will be purchasable from Steam as well as various other digital services, according to the developers.

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Carl is both a JRPG fan and a CRPG'er who especially loves European PC games. Even with more than three decades of gaming under his belt, he feels the best of the hobby is yet to come.


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