Stella Deus

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A grey mist is swallowing the world of Solum, and everything it touches dies. In Stella Deus: The Gate of Eternity, the Aeque Church under High Priestess Lumena teaches that the Miasma is God's will, the warlord Dignus is carving up what is left, the alchemist Viser drains the life-force of Spirits to fuel his inventions, and a cult called the Nox wants to summon a god of destruction named Dies Irae. Caught between all of them is Spero, a young swordsman who fights with a katana in each hand.

Battles run on an Action Point system inherited from Hoshigami: Ruining Blue Earth. Each character starts a turn with 100 AP and can keep moving, attacking and using skills until it runs dry, with armor weight setting what each action costs. Height matters on every map, so an archer on high ground hits more reliably, and Team Attacks let two or more allies pile onto a single target for bigger damage and better rewards. Between story battles, towns let you craft and customize weapons and armor, camps let you rework your loadout, and the Catacomb of Trials offers an optional dungeon that keeps opening deeper floors as the story advances.

The pedigree is a big part of the appeal. Atlus produced it with the studio Pinegrow, and the character art and art direction come from Shigenori Soejima, years before his designs became the face of Persona 4 and Persona 5. The score is by Hitoshi Sakimoto and Masaharu Iwata, the duo whose music defined Final Fantasy Tactics and Tactics Ogre, and their sweeping, melancholy style suits a story about faith and a dying world perfectly.

Atlus published it in North America in 2005, and critics responded well to its depth, while its story tackles religion and fanaticism head-on. For tactics players who have already worn out the genre's famous names, Stella Deus is a thoughtful, demanding PS2 deep cut, and an early look at an artist who would go on to shape one of gaming's biggest RPG series.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
2004
Publisher
505 Games
Developer
Atlus
Players
Single player
About the game

Stella Deus is a story-driven tactical role-playing game in which the player controls a group of characters both picked up during the course of the story and in side events. The world is navigated using an overworld map using point-to-point navigation, with a date system showing the length of time it takes to get to a selected location. Alongside the story missions, Towns can be visited, in which characters can customize and create new weapons and armor, sell existing equipment in exchange for money, and shop for items such as healing potions. In camps set up on a journey, characters can swap out weapons and armor, equip items such as healing potions and beneficial charms for future battles. Special items used in character leveling can also be crafted by the player. Alongside story-based missions, there is a special dungeon called the Catacomb of Trials, where characters can battle and gain experience levels, raising their general statistics. The number of available levels in the Catacomb increases as players progress through the game. Each character has a specific character class, which they keep throughout the game and continue to level up as they gain experience points (XP).

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