In the second chapter, there is a darkened room that you cannot get past without a key item. Given that the same enemies inhabit the same rooms each and every time you land in them, you generally don't have to repeat battles beyond the first time you explore a room unless you want to, with one notable, tragic exception. Some of the loot will be consumables such as health potions, while some will be gear, and that gear is what modifies your stats and gives your characters their spells. Each piece of loot has "burden points" attached to it, and depending on how well you did in battle, you can burden yourself with more of them. Instead, nearly every battle end with you choosing one new skill for each of the three characters in your party, and there is also a lot of loot to choose from. Your characters don't gain levels, and their statistics don't change the more you battle. Instead, they occur each and every time you stop in specific rooms on the map, and so they can (in most cases) be bypassed after the first time you've fought them. Every little bit helps, but in truth, using buffs to increase your accuracy or power will be a much more effective way to increase your chances.īattles in the game are not random. In other cases, you gain a bonus die for chaining up attacks into a combo, and can then use your bonus dice collection to increase your odds of hitting the enemy and the damage your attack will cause. In some cases, such as attempts to debuff an enemy (slow him down, lower his attack or defense, etc.), rolling the dice is mandatory and determines if the spell succeeds or fails. You choose your attacks, skills, or magic based on their potency or effect, just like you would any RPG. The dice actually do not come into play with every move. I was overwhelmed at first but, after some practice and going over the in-game tips, the battles become second nature. Thankfully, despite having systems upon systems upon systems, the game really isn't as complex as the string of tutorials at the beginning would have you believe. Having never really played either a Matsuno game or a tabletop RPG before, I naturally thought I was the best person to review it. Going into it, all I knew about Crimson Shroud was its pedigree and the fact that its battles are dice-based. It is now being offered on the North American eShop as a bite-sized, standalone role-playing game. Part of the Guild 01 compilation published by Level 5 in Japan, Crimson Shroud was developed by the illustrious Yasumi Matsuno, of Final Fantasy Tactics and Ogre Battle fame.
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