Advent Crossroad
A shopping center undergoes lockdown following sudden monster appearances. A security guard and special agent are amongst the trapped guests. To find the exit—as well as answers—they must travel through distorted spaces and fight off strange creatures using mysterious devices known as “Tabernacles.”
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KEY FEATURES
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Hybrid Navigation
Explore top-down locations and first-person mazes filled with monsters.
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Fast-Paced Story
Experience a tense atmosphere as characters find a way to escape the dangerous mall.
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Brisk Combat
Engage in challenging turn-based battles and exploit monsters’ weaknesses to survive!
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Customize Skillsets
Unlock new abilities during fights or the Skill Menu afterward.
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Game Discussion
Steam User 1
It's an okay dungeon RPG. mostly suffering from weird itemization and being a little too short (at 5-6 hours long) and easy to really be good, but still kind of worth playing through, especially as you can do so in a single day.
Recommended, though lightly.
Steam User 0
Pretty decent dungeon crawler. I'd recommend it as a good "First Dungeon Crawler" for someone that's never played one. It has a small bit of jank when it comes to controls and menus, but if you can look past that, there is a little bit to enjoy here. The best portion of the game is the last quarter of the game. The last dungeons of the game, when your party is fully leveled up and equipped with abilities is the best part of the game.
Steam User 0
Imagine one of the older Megaten games but without the 20 hours of grinding and that's what you have in Advent Crossroad. I personally loved all the items that let you skip the grind but for those who want truly beefy characters the options are there with accessories that let you gain extra stats on level up to leveling up faster or even gaining extra TP. Not to mention several skills that let you basically farm like no ones business.
The story was about as neat and contained as an early Megaten game as well. With some places where you can make a choice in how the MC responds which doesn't have an impact beyond characterization. I honestly wish we got a little more options in this department or even events or side missions to flesh out the MC a bit more but this might have created the bloat I despise in modern Atlus titles.
If you are like me and have been completely let down with modern SMT and Persona titles due to the obsession with appealing to "modern audiences" then this game is for you. It's short, it's sweet and I hope we get more like it in the future. Great call back to when video games weren't over regulated and moderated to Tartarus and back.