Radiant Historia 2010

Is it still worth playing?

In this 2010 role playing game for the Nintendo DS, Stocke, a soldier of Alistel, is chosen to wield the White Chronicle, a book that lets him travel between timelines. He has to stop his continent from turning to desert. Changing a decision in the past changes the future. In the space between time, called Historia, you choose which point in history to return to, and a menu shows both timelines with the key decision points marked. Battles are turn based, with enemies on a three by three grid. Push and pull skills move them around, and pushing one onto another lets a party's consecutive attacks hit both. More abilities come with levels, and some change the order of attacks. The number of timelines you unlock influences the ending. Pushing enemies together on the grid and rewinding to decisions in the timeline still give every chapter two kinds of planning.