Radiant Tale

This game was amazing, I played through only one route at the moment and plan to play the rest real soon. I will update if my thoughts change after I complete the game. I recommend this game, I also included some screenshots of the interface as I find it very well put together. ~Overall ratings~ Plot: 10/10 Romance: 8/10 LI’s: 10/10 Side Characters: 10/10 Art: 10/10 Interface: 10/10 Story length: 9/10 Heroine: 10/10 Overall: 9/10 ~Detailed review (possible spoilers)~ So I’ll start by giving a summary of the plot. Basically you join a failing circus act that is serving the king of a fairytale kingdom, the point of the Circus is to make people happy enough to make magic flowers bloom so that they can used those to save the king’s son. The king’s son had his heart sealed by a Fiend (basically an evil monster) and this was frozen in time. The magic flowers made from emotions thus can give the prince his emotions back and cure him. So the heroine runs into one of the members and offers them a place to stay and the story takes off from there and she is asked to join. Because the plot is simple and straightforward there was no plot holes I noticed on my first playthrough, I completed Radie/Ralida’s route first and I think his route would be better saved for a later playthrough since a lot of the heroine’s past is uncovered in it and some spoilers are in there that maybe would be best left for a later playthrough. The common route is pretty long, containing a Prologue and 5 chapters. However I did not feel that it was dragged out or forced at all, not once did I feel irritated or impatient during the common route. The reason being that each chapter basically covers some background about each of the LI’s and because of this you get to know them all pretty well prior to their routes. It seems that our main route is likely Vilio as he sort of gets a piece of all the chapters however not much is revealed. I am guessing his route may not be unlocked on the first playthrough however I have not looked into this. And choosing and knowing which LI you are going to be with is super easy in this game. There is a status screen that shows your affection levels and with every town the team visits they explore and you choose which area/LI to go with and these scenes all trigger choices for you so that you can raise their affection (or not), and because I knew who I was interested in from the start I chose Radie everytime and a good chunk of these scenes also included CGs for the character. And because of this I feel this game has a lot of replay value because the common route allows so many different options for the player to choose. The character routes also are a good length, four chapters long. However looking at the chapter lists it seems Vilio has more chapters than the other LIs and I can’t wait to play his route. Radie’s route was good, I loved it, it was an emotion roller coaster that had me crying and laughing. It lacked some romance at parts where he was trying to deny his feelings for the heroine (this is why I didn’t give the romance a 10/10 I hate this sort of thing). Overall though I loved this route and Ralida so much. The art style for this game is stunning the graphics and the interface just look so good, literally like a fairytale book. My only con is the fact that the characters were not animated, that annoys me a bit because they really ought to do that by default nowadays. So no there mouths do not move nor do they blink. Very disappointing however because the story is so immersive I didn’t notice it for long and I can somewhat forgive it. My last con is simply that I wish that Liyan had a route he was such a fun side character and I am a bit disappointed that he didn’t get a route. And that there is no special short stories that unlock after completing a character’s route. Those are the only things I would change. Overall I recommend this game to anyone that likes Otome or if you were interested in playing an Otome because this one is a masterpiece that as more than worth a try.