Upcoming RPG Stella Glow has a substantial musical element to it, as our own Morgan Sleeper discovered early on with his first impressions of the game. According to publisher Atlus, the five witches encountered within Stella Glow's world possess forms of rare song magic, and having them reach their full potential means setting their hearts in tune.
It's a bit of an odd-sounding concept, to be sure, but potentially interesting in its abstractness. Main protagonist Alto will have the ability to enter each witch's heart to "tune" them, and in doing so will face off against the fears and anxieties that clutter their clarity. Alto, however, must forge a strong enough social bond with each witch during non-combat times of the game in order to earn enough trust to tune. Atlus has released a short video on witch tuning that you can view below.
Does the concept of witch tuning strike a chord with you? Let us know below! Stella Glow is currently scheduled for a Holiday 2015 release in North America and a March 2016 release in Europe.
[source youtube.com]
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It would be terriably ironic if this game had a bad soundtrack
Not paying 50$ for this Atlus. I can wait for a good price drop. As always love their support though!
This sounds exactly like the game "AR Nosurge Plus". The characters in AR have song magic too. You don't TUNE with them but instead DIVE into them to for stronger bonds and explore the issues clogging their minds to unlock stronger song magic. There's a whole social aspect outside of combat that lets you improve the bond. Stella Glow is like word for word the same mechanics as AR nosurge except instead of being a sci-fi/fantasy game it is just a fantasy game. It's really weird. I liked AR but this literally sounds like the same game with a different skin. And probably doesn't have amazing music like AR does.
Would love to get it but don't have the cash right now. Plus they are too many games I'm getting already, like 6 Wii U games and at least that many for the 3DS. I can't buy them all.
Wasn't there a game like this, but the main character made spirit kids with girls and they all went on afamily drive to- KILL SOME DARK SH*T!
@KO-Cub Are you talking about Conception II: Children of the Seven Stars?
@Pokefanmum82 Sell your soul to Giratina. And maybe -just maybe- you'll be able to afford three of those games. Teehee
@Sakura_Moonlight2421 You hit the nail right on the head. I was gonna say the same thing too, but you beat me to it.
Not knowing the game franchise and just by watching the video I'm like "WTF?"
Really hoping for a preorder bundle!! I'm excited
@ekreig
This! It could either be Sakura Wars or Children of the Seven Stars. The snippets of writing they shared tends to make me think it's more like the latter though...
@FantasiaWHT the footage I've seen makes it look more like fire emblem.
@KomrathDE it's a new franchise
I like it. In real life, you have to "earn the right to speak into a person's life." In the game, you have to "earn the right to tune a character's inner music."
Looks good and it looks deep as in, philosophical.
Can't wait for this and Legend of Legacy.
That means: HAREM ENDING!.... pffff... jejeje
@Valedrel This reminded me of Ar Tonelico [which you allude to], a strange trilogy from Gust and Banpresto that involved music and going into the minds of wounded singing women to cure them. Very musical. Very, um, Gust! I would guess that even though Stella Glow is a new series, it clearly was inspired by Ar Tonelico. And for further obscurity, Ar Tonelico was succeeded by Surge Concerto: Ciel nosurge (Vita, Japanese only) with the same idea. I was a little surprised to see Nintendo bring it out, but I shouldn't have after Conception 2. I did enjoy Ar Tonelico but not as much as Atelier Iris, which was from the classic Playstation JRPG era.
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