Oriental Blue (GameBoy Advance GBA)
This is a Japanese to English Translation of Oriental Blue originally a Japanese executive.
Oriental Blue is loosely related via themes and some gameplay mechanics to the more well-known Tengai Makyou series, which has sadly yet to see any sort of English release to this day. This game fuses many locations and mythologies from around the far east (i.e., Japan, China, Thailand, Mongolia) to present a story that is decidedly dark, particularly when contrasted against the Tengai Makyou seriess more lighthearted tradition.
The basic setup is familiar: top-down 2D graphics, first-person battles, random encounters, world map, etc., but it has plenty of unique aspects to make it a noteworthy experience. The main thing about the game that sets it apart from its peers is what the developers call a free scenario system. This is a fancy name that was also associated with Romancing SaGa which really means that you are free to tackle events at will. Unlike Romancing SaGa, however, it is much more intuitive, and also includes a journal feature that makes a note of all of the important things that happen to you, highlighting the important details, and when and where they happened.
-Genre: Fantasy, RPG.
-Region: NTSC, USA
-Compatible with GBM/GBA/SP/NDS/NDSL Systems with no modification needed.
-Save Feature Enabled.
-May not be compatible with Retron 5 hardware.