Developer/publisher: Otomate.
Platform: Switch.
Official Site: https://www.otomate.jp/radiant_tale/fanfare/
Okay so Otomate decided Radiant Tale needed a FD and since I sort of liked the game
and they added a Liyan route I decided to get it! also it seems like Raditale FD releases
really close to Virche's FD, not even a week apart! 😱😱😱 I didn't realize this
till I was in the middle of Vilio's after and was like no rush right?! 😅
Good thing is this game wasn't that long... phew.
Pro's
- Enjoyable FD to compliment the original game!
- Gorgeous art and fitting music.
Con's
- After stories have choices but they don't actually matter.
As this is a fandisc it will have after stories for the main guys and 2 new routes for Liyan and Jinnia
which take place after the common route normal ending of the original Radiant Tale.
After and IF stories are roughly 3-4 hours in length, which honestly was enough as it never
did drag on long enough to overstay its welcome and most of them remained short&sweet.
I did set a good pace for myself and got through an after in a day so I spend
a good week on this which is pretty good value if you ask me but it all depends
how much time you have to want to set aside to sit back and read a little.
System is pretty standard as per usual, however I didn't understand why there were choices
in the after stories, said choices seemed to be there for the sake of it. Like congratulation Ion
or telling Ion that he was cool. I'm like... why bother at this point? there's no need for choices
if the outcome doesn't change or there is no dictionary or different scene to collect.
There being choices made much more sense in the new routes...
since there are normal ends but those give no CG.
Art is as gorgeous as ever and Usaba Kagerou and Miko have returned to grace us with more of
their insanely pretty art! Music is fitting enough and I did not have any complaints.
Honestly with most of the after stories I was pretty satisfied and I even ended up
liking certain characters more than I did in the original game which was really nice.
The after stories also further went into matters so yes if you loved the world view and lore
you'll be in for a treat for sure. So I can definitely recommend Radiant Tale to fans of the originalwho can't get enough of it! The new routes may depend on tastes of who you were more
interested in. Its good they got routes because I sure was thirsting after one of them back then.
However I do think the afters could be either a hit or a miss... in my opinion it felt that
some of them didn't really had a good enough plot, I liked Ion,Zafora and Radie's...
but I had some issues with Paschalia and Vilio's afters and didn't enjoy them as much.Both IF stories with Jinnia and Liyan were very enjoyable to me so there's that!
Anyway that is just my two cents and I still recommend Raditale FD if you really liked the original
since this is an amazing FD to compliment a good otome game!
9/10
For play order I mostly followed the same order I did in the original with the new routes last!
since this is a fd the order doesn't even matter I just decided this for myself
you could only do your fav's and skip any you don't like too...
Ion > Paschalia > Zafora > Radie > Vilio > Jinnia > Liyan.
The non-spoiler babbles end here and from here on i'll be writing about the afters etc!
and sharing my favourite cg's. So be warned there will be spoilers after the jump.
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