The Adventure of Elliot: The Millennium Tales….coming in 2026

bender said:
Finished the demo and did most of the optional stuff. I'm not sure I'm digging it so much. I think reducing the enemy respawn timer would be helpful, but with no experience system tied to defeating enemies, it all starts to feel laborious rather quickly. The challenge temples serve as mechanical training early on and are a bit too generous with handing out additional heart containers. Worst of all, you can't pet any of the many cats in the starting town. Is 2025 for Pete's sake. The main boss was fine, the optional one was rather lackluster. I was probably expecting more of an RPG which is on me.
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I cringe every time a game lets me pet a random animal on the street.

Gonna check out the demo sometime. Always loved the artstyle of the octopath series but I dislike jrpgs and I hate turn based combat.
 
The demo completely sold me on this game it was fantastic, my only issue is its coming out in 2026….I want this game to come out this year.

Branded said:
Bit out of the loop but is this by the Octopath team?
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Yup Team Asano is making this game.
 
drotahorror said:
I cringe every time a game lets me pet a random animal on the street.

Gonna check out the demo sometime. Always loved the artstyle of the octopath series but I dislike jrpgs and I hate turn based combat.
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Playing right now, it feels closer to the classic Zelda games so far. So if you like Zelda games, you'd probably like this? idk.
 
this was the biggest surprise for me. It's just like an old school square action rpg on the snes .. it's like a real secret of mana sequel. Absolutely Loving the demo.
 
Beat the demo. Overall, pretty fun game. Only real issue I have is the platforming is a bit clunky. Also pretty sure the boss glitched out on me. He got stuck in an animation while I just wailed on him with my sword.
 
drotahorror said:
I cringe every time a game lets me pet a random animal on the street.
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Punished Miku said:
The more you play the better it gets. The first dungeon is really fun. I love the weird ass looking swamp water. This game is going to be incredible.

The only question left is if it has a real story or more of a light hearted fairy tale vibe, which is fine

[Edit] and demo finished. The boss was great. More challenging than I expected. I might try this on hard next time. The combat is fantastic.
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Is the demo out on other platforms besides NS2?
 
Demo was excellent! Unsure about if its on other platforms.....i played the SW2 one. I was on my PS5 later after that and didn't see it there.
 
I've really enjoyed it so far, like this is the type of games why I started liking gaming and it feels like it has been ages since I got something so good with the same feeling.

The only caveat is the having to press B twice to get out of the map, really it should be one single press and I always forget about the second one and get fooled by my muscle memory.
 
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I appreciate you, and the game is good.

But if it's a Keycard, I won't buy it.

If it's physical, maybe.
 
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This is quite fun so far. It's been a while since I've played a top-down adventure game, and Elliot learned a lot of good lessons from Zelda. It's a tad derivative but I like a lot of what this game is doing already. So far I'm hoping for more puzzle elements though. The music is beautiful and the visuals are growing on me. Some of the UI navigation is clunky though.

Am I the only one that really likes the fairy? Also hot take central here but I don't want to see leveling-up. It inherently makes this genre overly-grindy and I think there're enough non-grindy ways to get stronger already, like getting and managing magicite boosts (this system reminds me of FF9's abilities or Paper Mario's badges).
 
Played through the demo, yeah...
It feels a bit deritive and they definately did not put enough effort into the menus and UI to make it feel like a professional game.
Also the way the character stops each time you attack feels annoying.
The graphics are also Switch 1 level or worse. Definitely not up to par with newer HD2D games. Sprites look too faded.
I also feel like the game needs a leveling or additional progression system from what I played.

The music is great (if the game sucks, it will be a shame) and the magicite system is cool, but overall it feels pretty low-effort.
I would probably buy this if it's cheap enough though for the music alone.
 
Rran said:
Am I the only one that really likes the fairy?
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I also like the fairy but mostly because I played a lot of Vanillaware games.
Rran said:
hot take central here but I don't want to see leveling-up. It inherently makes this genre overly-grindy and I think there're enough non-grindy ways to get stronger already, like getting and managing magicite boosts (this system reminds me of FF9's abilities or Paper Mario's badges).
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I also agree with you, this game doesn't need level up system.
 
This is giving me nostalgic vibes of SNES Secret of Mana and Zelda. Plus the main character appears to be some sort of a ranger. I'm in!
 
kur07 said:
This is giving me nostalgic vibes of SNES Secret of Mana and Zelda. Plus the main character appears to be some sort of a ranger. I'm in!
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Yeah, I got some Secret of Mana vibes as well during the demo. It's of course far less whimsical, but the feel reminded me a bit of Secret of Mana, at least.

I wonder now how a HD-2D Mana game could look and play like.

Edit: Now that I have played it longer, it's definitely more Zelda than Mana.
 
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sigmaZ said:
Played through the demo, yeah...
It feels a bit deritive and they definately did not put enough effort into the menus and UI to make it feel like a professional game.
Also the way the character stops each time you attack feels annoying.
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I agree on both. Will definitely give this as feedback when the survey comes in.

I love the game though. Really excited.
 
Nice surprise! Felt a bit like Secret of Mana. I went through it all, there was a bit of annoyance going through the cave with teleportation but otherwise I enjoyed it all.
 
Guess this is the thread for this game.

Pretty solid so far, enjoying just playing it, walking about, getting into combat. I don't think it'll get crazy deep or engaging, but seems enjoyable enough that I just might bite if I can easily access physical at launch. I think I'd like it even more the further I play.
 
Finished the demo. Game needs some work. The overworld runs a bit sluggish compared to caves, game is hella sluggish in graphics mode (Switch 2). Your hitbox seems HELLA wide so it definitely doesn't come off skill-based like Ys at all. Really hard to tell when and why you get hit, unlike Ys or Zelda, which just encourages turtling/distance play over ballsy skill combat. And the boss…. it had so many different things it does where it is like "how was I supposed to know that?" so you just die and learn and that part is definitely like Ys. The resurrect in place for 20 bucks is hilarious, your fairy earning her way.

I may get this on Series X or PC if that lets me play 4k at 60fps because it doesn't make any sense to me how Switch 2 isn't able to do that for this. The visual style is kinda jumbled so it would be nice to run 4k to help clarity. I set my TV to smooth out the framerate in graphics mode to get a preview of it (tho it causes big delay) and it is nice looking that way.
 
Would love to play this on a console where it can run 4k/60 fps with achievements, so if there ends up being an Xbox or Steam version, I will pick it up. It does look quite good, even on Switch 2. I just hope the camera can be zoomed in a little more. Glad to see a non-turn-based JRPG in the HD2D style every so often. As long as Bravely 3 hits more like Bravely 1, and a true Octopath 3 is planned at some point, I'm happy. We need other companies to carry the torch of 2D top-down Zeldas now, since Nintendo has started to turn every Zelda into a builder-sim. Might be okay with some people, but to me it's just boring and not Zelda, and I don't want to spend 30%+ of my time in a Zelda game having to dink around trying to build something.
 
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touchfuzzy said:
"The Milennium Tales" is a great title, they should just drop "The Adventures of Elliot" part
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No one liked Wii or Bravely Default at first, either. Just human nature to bristle at something new that you're not used to. Eventually you just get used to it and don't even remember not liking it 🤷‍♂️
 
Dr. Wilkinson said:
Thank God. So tired of all these games being Switch-only and waiting for a port to a console than can run it well + has achievements. Still waiting on an Xbox port of Harvestella. Never again!
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I don't know about Xbox but the game is definitely coming to PS and Steam.
 
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