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The DioField Chronicle is a Tactical Role-playing game for the Nintendo Switch published by in 2022. The battles play out in real-time though the player can pause at any time to redirect a unit. The story of the game is about the conflict over the continent of Diofield.
Gameplay[]
The game plays as a strategy role-playing video game. It is not tile-based in its movement, like Final Fantasy Tactics, but instead allows for more free directional movement like XCOM. The game features real-time strategy elements, with the battle system being named the "Real-Time Tactical Battle System", an allusion to the Active-Time Battle system.
Plot[]
The Diofield Chronicle takes place on a fictional war-torn continent, where the Kingdom of Alletain sits in the close vicinity of a conflict between the Trovelt-Schoevian Empire and the Rowetale Alliance. When the Empire ends up defeating the Alliance, they turn their attention to Alletain. The game follows the mercenary group related to the Alletain called the "Blue Foxes". The four heads of the group are Andrias Rhondarson, a royal bodyguard who knows ancient sorcery, Fredret Lester, his childhood friend, Iscarion Colchester, an archer and former noble, and Waltaquin Redditch, a mage noblewoman.
Reception[]
The game received "mixed or average" reviews.