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Harbingers of Destiny

When Strata is unwittingly caught up in an international incident, she is forced to team up with border guard Leonel and escort a mysterious yet timid mage to the capital city. But as tensions rise between nations, they soon realize there’s more at play than they could have ever imagined.

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About the Game

When Strata is unwittingly caught up in an international incident at Gering Village, she is forced to team up with border guard Leonel and escort a mysterious yet timid mage who calls herself Lamina to the capital city of Yukel. But as tensions rise between nations, they soon realize there’s more at play than they could have ever imagined. Joined by a band of unlikely allies, Strata sets out to unravel the secrets behind the conflict that has kept two nations at each other’s throats for decades. Can she prevent a new war from igniting after sixty years of fragile peace? Or will she, despite her best efforts, become the harbinger of the world’s destiny?

Key Features:

Epic Turn-Based JRPG Combat: Classic PS1 era menu-based battles with physical attacks, magic spells, skills, items, and row positioning. Face random encounters on the world map and challenging bosses that demand strategy and party synergy.

Party Progression & Customization: Recruit unlikely allies with unique abilities and backstories. Level up through EXP from battles to unlock new skills, equip weapons/armor bought in towns or found in dungeons, and tailor your team's strengths.

Vast Exploration: Traverse a sprawling overworld map connecting vibrant towns, border outposts, dark forests, and perilous dungeons. Discover secrets via pre-rendered backgrounds, interact with many NPCs for quests, lore, and items.

Rich Challenges & Goals: Overcome political intrigue, moral choices, and escalating threats to escort Lamina, expose hidden conspiracies, and avert catastrophe in 30+ hours of twisting narrative.

Relive the golden age of PlayStation-era JRPGs with authentic low-poly models, full-motion videos and unforgettable characters!

Harbingers of Destiny is an aggressively PlayStation 1-era inspired JRPG. In fact we are creating a vision initially conceived back in 2000! What this also means is that the game exhibits:

  • a screen resolution of 320x240 pixels, which scales to your screen resolution

  • pixelated or smooth scaled pre-rendered backgrounds

  • sample-based music

  • low-poly 3D models

  • FMVs also at 320x240 base resolution