What you can’t see on the map, however, is the complete overhaul to the ability system. This layout means that the player can be strung off to tackle more than one subsection at a time and then return, with minimal fuss, to the central hub and move to the next fresh chunk of gameplay. You’ll also notice that the subsections themselves are threaded together at various junctions (green dots), allowing for a smooth transition between nearby subsections without negating the overworld hub. You can see how each subsection (marked with their squished text titles) connects to a central part (red circle) which the player arrives back, rounding off the chunks of gameplay nicely. How is Aria of Sorrow such a dramatic improvement? Well let’s take a look at the castle layout. Furthermore I didn’t feel the need to use a teleport once, whereas I used them more frequently in Harmony of Dissonance. Each subsection exit is the closest offshoot route to the entrance of the next which means that there’s minimal backtracking. You’re too busy whisking off to the next place on the map. In regards to Aria of Sorrow, you never once stop to think about the layout and you don’t really use the map screen all that much either.
I razzed on Harmony of Dissonance for its incompetence at stringing the player from one major interval of gameplay to another.
Aria of Sorrow Review – Centralised Layout and The Tactical Soul System November 5th, 2010Īria of Sorrow is a fine improvement over Harmony of Dissonance.
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