Heroine Anthem Zero -Sacrifice-

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  • Summary: With a emotionally resonating soundtrack and beautiful visual art style, Heroine Anthem Zero is the first installment in an epic fantasy adventure game from WindThunder Studio. Gameplay features 2D side-scrolling movement and combat, simple and intuitive controls -- yet at the heart of theWith a emotionally resonating soundtrack and beautiful visual art style, Heroine Anthem Zero is the first installment in an epic fantasy adventure game from WindThunder Studio. Gameplay features 2D side-scrolling movement and combat, simple and intuitive controls -- yet at the heart of the game is our trademark storytelling. A hybrid between game and story, it may not be for the hardcore platform gamer, but yet if you are intrigued by a story over ten years in the making, come and enter the stunningly moving world of adventure from long ago.

    The story begins with the last Cataclysm, with the descendants of the Savior rebuilding the land around the World Tree Terasyr. Thousands of years later the Engora Dynasty grows into prosperity, with Fae and Human together resisting the encroaching advances of evil from the edges of the world, and deathly Longhorn Woods.
    As fate brings Wanin the Forest Keeper and the wandering cat-girl Shama Kutami together, the entangling web of destinies unfolds. In a world unforgiven by God, their fight for survival unknowingly bears the weight and sins of thousands of generations hereafter.

    key Features
    1. Available in English for the first time! Heroine Anthem Zero is the first game in the series to support English!
    2. Featuring well-known Voice Actors in various languages, including Yūsuke Kobayashi (The Heroic Legend of Arslan) and Tomoka Wakabayashi (The iDOLM@STER)
    3. Exquisitely detailed 2D visuals, bring the world of Heroine Anthem Zero to life with its vibrant characters and stunning world setting.
    4. A hauntingly beautiful soundtrack, following in the tradition of the Heroine Anthem series: famous composers (known for their work in RPG classics such as Chinese Paladin series) as well as Japanese composers new to the series have joined forces to produce unforgettable music.
    5. Weapons and skills -- Character progression is closely tied to the weapon and items in Heroine Anthem Zero, switching weapons changes damage and other attributes,as well as attack motions. Weapons can also interact with the stage levels.
    6. Explore carefully crafted side-scrolling maps and dungeons, solve interactive puzzles and discover hidden treasure locations for powerful items.    … Expand

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  1. The Overpowered Noobs
    Jan 10, 2017
    90
    Heroine Anthem Zero’s strength lies in its story and depth of world. If you expect to play a masterpiece ARPG with innovative and intuitive mechanics, character level progression, and/or a high skill cap that requires regular practice, look elsewhere. But if you want an interesting, albeit sometimes by the book, story played out through captivating visuals and don’t mind the occasional moment of "ecchi," then HAZ may be the ARPG for you.

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  1. Boombaztic
    Dec 29, 2016
    9
    Heroine Anthem Zero is the third game of the Series. The first two games were released in 2002 and 2003 and now, in 2016 they finally releasedHeroine Anthem Zero is the third game of the Series. The first two games were released in 2002 and 2003 and now, in 2016 they finally released a new game.

    This is a 2D side-scrolling slasher in a very beautiful world with a norse setting. The game begins with a nice intro video, showing us lovely places and playing a very pleasant music. Right after this you find yourself standing in the Forest with two other guys (Brandr and Olegon). You are Wanin, a swordsman and forest keeper.

    The game offers a nice story, you can kill some big monsters, talk to many people and see a quite a lot of funny moments or jokes while playing the game. Storytelling is a major part in this game. They made many images showing up while somebody is talking and some speech bubbles with emotions.

    Besides storytelling, this game offers a combat system. I wouldn’t say it’s perfect but it’s quite okey for me. In the beginning you don’t have much. You can swing your sword, jump, send your little friend to stun the enemy but as you move on you find new moves, new skills, weapons. I played it with a Logitech Controller and it felt quite good, can’t say anything about the keyboard controls.

    I like the graphics and music in this game. The visuals are well drawn, characters are detailed, so is the landscape. The music is very relaxing. Playing the game with headphones I didn’t feel annoyed by the music for any moment. Big respect to the artist and composer!

    Having played the game partly in English and partly in German I can say, that everything is okey. (I’ve only seen 1 small spelling mistake in the English translation.)

    For now the game lacks some things. You can’t change the resolution, change the control layout, you can’t access the options window in the main menu and it’s not possible to skip many moments. The tutorial lacks hints about the controller buttons. But the developers already plan an update where they try to adjust some things according to what the community told them. Developers who listen to players and reviews are good developers and I hope they will do more and more patches in the future, so this game uses its full potential!

    Positive:
    + beautiful art
    + pleasant music
    + nice and interesting story
    + detailed character design
    + developers listen to community
    + updates are coming soon

    Negative:
    - can’t change resolution
    - can’t skip many long moments
    - tutorial doesn’t show gamepad controls
    - unable to rebind keys
    - combat system could be better

    In the end I can only say that most of the things I’ve pointed out as negative don’t really change the gameplay much and they only would make the game more comfortable. So I still think this is a beautiful and relaxing game worth giving a try. If you like games of this genre you will have some very pleasant hours!

    9/10 – waiting for patches! :)    … Expand
  2. amitp01
    Apr 9, 2017
    9
    the game is beautiful , the story is fun , and the music is amazing .
    sadly as i see it , its unfinished as 90% of the story remains open at    the game is beautiful , the story is fun , and the music is amazing .
    sadly as i see it , its unfinished as 90% of the story remains open at the end .
    yet i cant say i didn't had fun while playing it .    … Expand
  4. NihiRagnarK
    Jan 2, 2017
    7
    This is a 2-D old fashion story-telling RPG combined with old fashion platformer game. And it only releases its first chapter for now.
    The    This is a 2-D old fashion story-telling RPG combined with old fashion platformer game. And it only releases its first chapter for now.
    The story is generally good. However, the combat system is lack of content. For the hack-and-slash only character, you can't dodge, defend and rush. Touching enemy will hurt you and somehow debuff you. Thus the level and boss is quite hard at this first release moment and maybe will make some players rage quit.    … Expand

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