Replace [Wed 31st Jan, 2024 13:30 GMT]: In line with the most recent situation of Famitsu, Riviera: The Promised Land will likely be launching on Change on twenty eighth February 2024 in Japan (by way of Gematsu & Ryokutya2089). A Western launch remains to be but to be confirmed.
Evidently the upcoming port of the GBA and WonderSwan Colour cult basic has dropped ‘Remaster’ from the title, and is now simply going by its authentic identify. The Change remaster will likely be primarily based on the PSP model of the sport, however with “the Good Components of the WonderSwan and Recreation Boy Advance variations” together with an entire host of enhancements.
These enhancements, which had been shared by developer Sting on Twitter over the previous few months, embrace a number of background music sources, adjusted person interface and dialogue, the flexibility to avoid wasting wherever, extra problem choices, merchandise synthesis, and extra.
We’re maintaining our fingers crossed for this — and the remainder of the Dept. Heaven video games — to come back to Change within the West.
Authentic article [Wed 12th Jul, 2023 15:30 BST]: The primary entry in Sting’s Dept. Heaven sequence is getting an HD remaster. Making the announcement on Twitter, developer Sting revealed {that a} remaster of Riviera: The Promised Land is within the works. Platforms have not been introduced but, however we hope we’ll see it come to Change. (Thanks, Gematsu).
Riviera: The Promised Land first launched in Japan on the WonderSwan Colour on twelfth July 2002, which suggests right now is the sport’s twenty first anniversary — an apt day for an announcement like this. The West would not get their palms on it till the Recreation Boy Advance model dropped in 2005 in North America. PAL areas needed to wait till the PSP port in 2008.
Within the sport, you play a Grim Angel referred to as Ein, who’s accompanied by 4 heroines — Fia, Lina, Seren, and Cierra. Alongside together with his acquainted Rose, Ein should seal away the Accursed to avoid wasting the world. Sting is understood for its very distinctive RPGs, and Riviera isn’t any completely different.
Riviera differs from many conventional turn-based RPGs in that you simply get to decide on your combatants earlier than each single battle, choose the gadgets you should utilize (you possibly can choose as much as 16), and choose between the Assault or Magic Formation. You additionally do not get to discover the dungeons in the identical approach, with every dungeon “display screen” having choices and triggers which let you go searching, work together with the atmosphere, and battle enemies.
This is not the primary sport within the Dept. Heaven sequence that has seen a remaster in recent times. Knights within the Nightmare — a cult basic on the DS — bought a remaster on Change final 12 months, nevertheless, it is at present solely out there in Japan. It is the identical story with 2020’s Yggdra Union remaster, which can also be solely out there in Japan on Change, however that one obtained a worldwide launch on Steam in February 2023.