Chaos Rings

Chaos Rings is a jRPG released on Android. It was developed by Media Vision studio (known from the popular Wild Arms series) and published by Square Enix.

Story

Chaos Rings takes place in a mysterious and dangerous location known as the Ark. The place was created to enable mankind to defeat a being named Qualia, whose purpose is to destroy all reality, not only the one we live in, but also all parallel worlds.

Unfortunately, among the inhabitants of the Earth there is no one who could hope to succeed in this task. That is why the desperate builders of the Ark drew up a crazy plan. Their technology enables us to "catch" heroes from any period in the past, as well as from any alternative world. This is how groups of the greatest warriors are created, who are then tested in labyrinths. In the end, only two survive - a man and a woman. This couple is then sent into the distant past of the Earth, becoming the ancestors of the entire civilization. At the beginning of Chaos Rings's action, this process had already been repeated more than twice as many times, and each repetition made the human race a little bit stronger.

The story campaign of Chaos Rings is about four such pairs, which are to go through the last cycle and eventually defeat Qualia. Each of these eight characters has its own tragic biography, which we get to know while playing.

Mechanics

In terms of gameplay mechanics Chaos Rings is a classic dungeon crawler and the game consists mainly of exploring a dungeon full of monsters and traps with a two-person party. At the end of each stage, a powerful boss awaits us. During skirmishes we use an extensive turn-based combat system, enabling us to use numerous special skills and spells.

Victories are rewarded with experience points, which we can spend on purchasing improvements in hero statistics.

Technical aspects

Chaos Rings offers visuals that combine prerendered two-dimensional backgrounds with fully-3D characters. On the release day, the game had no recorded voices of characters and these were added in a later update. So far, however, they are only available in Japanese.

Last updated on 25 August 2015