JRPG 'Alvastia Chronicles' joins Xbox Play Anywhere

Alvastia Chronicles is another Japanese part-playing game (JRPG) from Kemco. Later encountering the human being who killed their parents x years prior, Elmia and her brother Alan set out to avenge their deaths as they fight to stalk the tide of monsters flooding into the upper world, and restore peace to Alvastia. Notwithstanding, in their quest to amass an army of diverse companions with the same goal, will they really be able to proceeds the forcefulness necessary to bring their parents' killer to justice, and save the world?

Alvastia Chronicles launched today on Xbox One January xviii, priced at $14.99. The game features Xbox Play Anywhere support meaning that you but have to purchase the game once — either on Xbox One or Windows 10 — and yous can play information technology on both devices. What's fifty-fifty better is that your progress and Xbox Achievements behave over.

Since the Xbox One launched in 2022, it hasn't recieved the JRPG back up the Xbox 360 enjoyed. Even though Alvastia Chronicles isn't a major title, it's still a footstep in the right direction for the console. Hopefully when the Xbox One and Xbox One X's successor rolls out in 2022, it volition feature much more support from Japanese developers.

Fifty-fifty though the JRPG genre isn't every bit popular on Xbox I as PlayStation 4, it's still a unique experience that whatsoever major console should offering. If a title gets neat reviews, it'll do well no affair the genre. Experiences like Nioh are only one instance of that.

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