Another Eden Begins Reworks Part 1 As A Standalone Console RPG
The producer frames the console version as a way to give a long-running live service game a form that outlasts the service itself, which is why the project is a rebuilt purchase rather than a port.
Reporting from 1 source: 4Gamer.net.
Another Eden Begins arrives on September 17 for Switch 2 and Switch, rebuilding the first part of the 2017 smartphone RPG Another Eden as a buy-to-play console title. Producer Shinnosuke Hirasawa told 4Gamer that the team first tried running the existing systems on console hardware, found them thin, and rebuilt movement, battle, and progression instead. The original story is kept; the fields around it were redrawn and expanded.
The battle system and field exploration were rebuilt rather than ported. Hirasawa said the team started by making the existing Another Eden systems run on console, then found the result unsatisfying: movement traced fixed lines on a phone screen, and the roughly decade-old battle system lost pace on a controller. The decision was to change all of it.
Fields were the harder problem. Camera position and behavior changed first, which exposed areas never built for a wider view, so the team drew in new material. Players who know the original may read the scenery as familiar; much of it was added for this version.
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