The DioField Chronicle

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  • Summary: A gritty and immersive story brought to life with the latest technology.
    Introducing "Real Time Tactical Battle" (RTTB), a new, deeply strategic, real-time battle system.
    The beginnings of a new Strategy RPG, crafted by a skilled and experienced development team. ■An all-new    A gritty and immersive story brought to life with the latest technology.
    Introducing "Real Time Tactical Battle" (RTTB), a new, deeply strategic, real-time battle system.

    The beginnings of a new Strategy RPG, crafted by a skilled and experienced development team.

    ■An all-new Strategy RPG that chronicles an epic tale of war and honour. Featuring a unique and beautiful world that blends fantasy, medieval and modern-day influences, and a deep yet innovative real-time battle system.

    ■Deep, strategic, real-time tactical battles

    The battles in this game are defined by real-time assessment of battlefield conditions and issuing decisive orders that take advantage of your troops strengths and weaknesses to gain advantage over your foe. Make clever use of a variety of skills, classes and equipment to complete your mission.

    ■Realistic "diorama" style battle scenes

    Richly detailed depictions of the environments of the island of DioField combined with unique "diorama" style visuals as you command your forces like a general.

    ■The DioField Chronicle Standard Edition Early Purchase Bonus Content

    ・Weapon: Rhopasto Knife (Standard Edition Early Purchase Exclusive Colour)

    ・Accessory: Recruit's Bangle

    Early Purchase Bonus Claim Period: Until December 31, 2022

    ※These items cannot be obtained while progressing through the game, but they can be received during Chapter     … Expand
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. God is a Geek
    Sep 19, 2022
    90
    The DioField Chronicle is an epic strategy RPG where you're fully engrossed in its story, and throughout every beautifully constructed battle. It features an in-depth battle structure and upgrading system, where you're constantly mixing up strategies on the fly.
  2. GameSpew
    Sep 22, 2022
    80
    The DioField Chronicle has proved to be quite the surprise. Its story isn’t the most riveting out there, but it is interesting, with a cast of characters whose motives aren’t always clear. But what carries it are its battles, which are enjoyably deep but not bogged down in complexity or length. They’re fun and engaging, challenging you to think and act fast while making use of the skills available to you. Everything comes together to create one of Square Enix’s most enjoyable RPGs in some time, with a combat system that we hope we haven’t seen the last of.
  3. TheXboxHub
    Oct 19, 2022
    80
    The DioField Chronicle is a great looking game, with some good storytelling and some average RPG mechanics. But it all adds up to a fine first entry that leaves us eager for more.
  4. XboxEra
    Oct 21, 2022
    78
    The DioField Chronicle is a great real-time strategy game for consoles. It controls well, the stages aren’t too long, and there’s enough mechanical depth to make stage replays interesting. Although I couldn’t be bothered with the game’s story, the scenes themselves don’t last long and all of it can be skipped at any point. I would have liked some more quality-of-life features such as always-on enemy range marking, but what’s missing hardly impacts the gameplay. This is a game I can recommend to tactics and JRPG fans alike.
  5. Generación Xbox
    Oct 10, 2022
    77
    The DioField Chronicle is a real-time strategy role-playing game that especially excels in the heat of battle.
  6. Jeuxvideo.com
    Oct 1, 2022
    75
    From the outset, we cannot welcome the bet launched by The Diofield Chronicle. Carried by divine music and gameplay as ingenious as it is interesting, the Square-Enix game is undeniably generous. Regulars of the genre and lovers of tactical role-playing games risk succumbing to its "retro" charm and its various incantations. Rhythmic, pleasant and more surprising than it seems, The Diofield Chronicle struggles to keep up the pace over time. The objectives are repeated, the free phases do not bring much and the staging lacks the energy to widen its audience. Nevertheless, for those who want to discover something other than the usual blockbusters and who is not hermetic to the genre, here is a work that could become cult in a few years or, at least, find its letters of nobility among enthusiasts.
  7. SomosXbox
    Oct 27, 2022
    65
    The DioField Chronicle has a lot of potential to be a great game, but thanks to the strange movements of Square Enix, this has not managed to be the title that many expected and that would make strategy games renew their formula that has been going on for many years. without changing. Probably with the addition of more translations, especially Spanish, it would have been reason enough to take into account the purchase of this game, but it has not been the case, so it remains off the radar of most players, thus remaining in oblivion as a game that Square Enix did not know how to take advantage of, remaining in non-existence in the mouths of the company's fans.

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  2. Mixed: 1 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. spartacus215
    May 30, 2023
    10
    I love DioField Chronicle! I’ll first preface that I didn’t play the three biggest games of 2022 AKA Elden Ring, God of War Ragnarök andI love DioField Chronicle! I’ll first preface that I didn’t play the three biggest games of 2022 AKA Elden Ring, God of War Ragnarök and Horizon Forbidden West, so this was my favorite game of 2022. I bought it upon its release. I got the Platinum Trophy for it after almost 34hrs. The Real-Time Tactical Battle” (RTTB) is a blast. The upgrade system is very well done. A brilliant mechanic that they added is that you can Fast-Forward the combat speed. The game on Hard does get fairly easy halfway through the game. The story is what sold me the most TBH. It was Dark and Gritty and it felt like a Game of Thrones storyline. Graphics are solid for the type of game that it’s and the music/sound/voice acting is Amazing. The characters are all intriguing. I do wish that they had more cutscenes though because the few that they did have were very cool. The replayability wasn’t there prior to this new DLC where they now added a Very Hard Difficulty Mode. I’m currently playing the Waltaquin Redditch DLC that just dropped a little while ago, so it’s wonderful to be able to go back to the game that I love so much after a year, but the only thing that I dislike is the fact that they did not add any new trophies to the game. I hope that we see a sequel in the future because this game has so much potential as a franchise and as a new IP from Square Enix!… Expand
  2. Rincemac
    Sep 29, 2022
    6
    Pausable RTS-style gameplay that plays great with a controller but suffers from Generic Fantasy Story A syndrome. Avoid at normal price, goPausable RTS-style gameplay that plays great with a controller but suffers from Generic Fantasy Story A syndrome. Avoid at normal price, go for it on sale if you’re into RTS & Fantasy.

    Strengths
    In-battle visuals are A+ with finely-tuned depth of field effects for additional eye candy.
    Challenge curve is going upwards steadily, as are the skill sets of your units, additional challenges in optional mission goals to improve your EXP/Rewards if met Level-up system based on RPG Skilltree development - develop your units in a certain direction that matches your playstyle Fast-paced battles and in later stages some alternative decisions to be made.

    Weaknesses
    The controls are not totally perfect. Direction-facing attacks are only adjustable when you move your archer for example. Ie no pointing your archer to a place since they might end up facing the wrong direction. Can only be mitigated by setting waypoints to turn them around.

    The real time Strategy Battle system, an adaptation likely from RTB coined by Final Fantasy, does not allow you to simply hit pause. An oversight for this title were in the heat of battle you actually just might want to do that. You can pause quickly by issue a command to all units for which there is an actual shortcut button. There is a similar function, however this zooms out on your current view to give you a view of the battlefied instead... one were you cannot issue commands, too. This is a messy point. A simple pause the action button would make it very much better.

    Enemies try to challenge you mostly by overwhelming you in numbers or by overusing their skills. Skills which you need to take care to stop in time, countering them with skill use of your own.

    Maps and scenarios are pretty generic, as is the story - the typical JRPG kind of lacklustre with overdone characters and lazy voiceovers.

    I'd probably give it a wide berth at normal pricing but a very interesting and fun title for satisfying that strategy itch in a different scenario and on console with a controller, which is rare enough.    … Expand

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