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<\/p>\nConception II: Children of the Seven Stars is Atlus’s latest title for the Nintendo 3DS. \u00a0The demo version hit the Nintendo eShop and Playstation Store on March 25th, 2014, well ahead of its April 15th, 2014 release date. \u00a0It features roughly one hour of playtime that jumps straight into the core gameplay and introduces the story.<\/p>\n
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My interest in this game lies with the fact that Atlus is publishing it. \u00a0Atlus has a great track record of publishing video game gems that grow into big successes. \u00a0A few of their popular series include Persona, Etrian Odyssey, Trauma Center, and Shin Megami Tensei. \u00a0When Atlus started shifting their marketing to heavily promote Conception II: Children of the Stars, naturally, I was curious. \u00a0Could it be yet another hidden gem?<\/p>\n
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Background<\/strong> Gameplay<\/strong> The real troubling aspect of this game is the RPG. \u00a0When you enter the Labyrinth, you walk around in real time with your children and partner circling around you. \u00a0What is frustrating is the camera. \u00a0There is absolutely no attempt to control the camera automatically, instead you are asked to maneuver the camera with the L and R buttons. \u00a0It was not easy, especially given the many turns and twists in the Labyrinth.<\/p>\n When you encounter a monster, you are brought into a turn-based fight. \u00a0There are some old ideas that are polished up here. \u00a0You can strike from different directions which will affect your damage, chains and where your position is. \u00a0The demo did not give enough of a chance to customize classes, weapons, etc to show the true potential, but I can envision some cool effects with certain spells.<\/p>\n Conclusion<\/strong> Conception II: Children of the Seven Stars is Atlus’s latest title for the Nintendo 3DS. \u00a0The demo version hit the Nintendo eShop and Playstation Store on March 25th, 2014, well ahead of its April 15th, 2014 release date. \u00a0It features roughly one hour of playtime that jumps straight into the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[101,100,102,49],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews","category-videogames","tag-atlus","tag-conception-ii-children-of-the-stars","tag-demo","tag-nintendo-eshop","has-thumbnail"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/dsdatabase.org\/beta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0916.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsdatabase.org\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsdatabase.org\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsdatabase.org\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsdatabase.org\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsdatabase.org\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsdatabase.org\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/dsdatabase.org\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsdatabase.org\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsdatabase.org\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsdatabase.org\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsdatabase.org\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nConception II is an RPG mixed with a dating sim. \u00a0This is immediately apparent when the background story is told. \u00a0Essentially you are a Disciple, one of God’s chosen ones that have special powers to hold back the Dusk flowing from the Labyrinths. \u00a0You are particularly special and will need to form bonds with seven heroines to create Star Children. \u00a0The process includes Class Mating which creates Star Children, who will join you in your fights against various monsters.<\/p>\n![\"IMG_0921\"](\"http:\/\/dsdatabase.org\/beta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0921-300x200.jpg\")
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\nThe dating sim portion from the demo gives you few options. \u00a0Of the seven heroines, you can only speak to three of them, and because the demo is so short, there are limited outcomes. \u00a0It is quite generic, you can choose events in different locales with different girls and you can select your responses which will affect how well you right with the heroine in the Labyrinth.<\/p>\n![\"IMG_0918\"](\"http:\/\/dsdatabase.org\/beta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0918.jpg\")
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\nIn the end, I have to say that this was a disappointing demo. \u00a0There was not a whole lot of meat in it, especially when you compare it to Atlus’ Etrian Odyssey demo, and the game itself is lackluster. \u00a0RPGs are dominating the Nintendo 3DS and while there are a few fresh ideas here, it isn’t enough to hold its own against the heavy weights like Bravely Default, Etrian Odyssey, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"