Ara Fell: Enhanced Edition

Stegosoft Games · Mar 26, 2020

Teen

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Ara Fell: Enhanced Edition combines the best parts of Japanese-style role playing games with the best parts of western RPGs, as well as including elements of visual novels and adventure games to create a truly unique experience. Atmosphere, emotion and surprise lie at the forefront of Ara Fell's story, driven by deep and accessible characters, each with his or her own past, their own desires and their own motivations for joining the protagonist’s quest. Join Lita and relive the golden age of RPGs with a game that both pays homage to the past greats, as well as blazing its own trail.

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Critic reviews

NintendoLife
Stuart Gipp · Apr 05, 2020
6.0
Ara Fell: Enhanced Edition is a difficult game to wholeheartedly recommend. JRPG veterans will likely fall into one of two camps – scornful of the game's simplistic mechanics, or appreciative of its polished take on very familiar genre tropes. For newcomers to this sort of game, it's a similar problem; the lack of complexity will either make the game pleasingly accessible or simply bore them.
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Xbox Tavern
Rob Turnbull · Apr 02, 2020
8.9
Not what many people expect from an RPG Maker game, Ara Fell is a charming and engrossing game filled with story, exploration, fighting, secrets, and puzzles to spare. Anticipation about discovering what’s next makes it a hard game to put down at the end of the night. You can’t go wrong with Ara Fell.
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Nintendo World Report
Jordan Rudek · Apr 02, 2020
7.0
Ultimately, Ara Fell is a fine but unremarkable RPG. It doesn’t really do anything new, but it can serve as comfort food to anyone who loves turn-based combat and 2D gameplay. At times, the visuals are reminiscent of Secret of Mana, but the soundtrack here pales in comparison, and I suppose that’s one of my main takeaways from playing Ara Fell.
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Way Too Many Games
Heidi Hawes · Mar 26, 2020
8.5
Ara Fell: Enhanced Edition is everything fans of retro RPGs are looking for. It has well written characters, beautiful environments, decent combat and class systems, a fantastic musical score, and a story that gets deeper and more compelling the farther you delve into it. It’s not groundbreaking by any means, but it delivers a fun and engaging experience that will stick with you for a while. Any fans of retro RPGs will fall in love with Ara Fell: Enhanced Edition.
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TheXboxHub
Jahanzeb Khan · Apr 03, 2020
6.0
Ara Fell: Enhanced Edition on Xbox One could have stood out from the many retro style indie RPG efforts, with a beautiful setting, charming characters, and excellent pixel art to complement a genuinely interesting narrative. Unfortunately, the utterly messy map design and cumbersome gameplay hold it back from realising its true potential.
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Nintendo Enthusiast
Brett Medlock · Mar 31, 2020
7.5
Ultimately, Ara Fell: Enhanced Edition quenched my thirst for a retro, Chrono Trigger-like experience. With rock-solid presentation, smart writing, and a battle system that gets the job done, Ara Fell: Enhanced Edition should be a part of any classic RPG fan’s collection.

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Gamer reviews

Adam Gibbons
Jun 27, 2025 · Switch
10
Amazing Game
Not a fan of turn based battles. I love that if the battles start to bore me, I have a one hit kill and just do the fun battles. Something that ruins these games for me, especially some of the "classics" os that the characters are usually annoying as hell and not only do I not care for them making playing with them as heroes pointless, some times I just outright want them to die. In Arafell I found myself really attached to the characters. The visuals are lovely, music is great too. Only downer for me was the movement was a little clunky. For a genre I don't care for, I absolutely loved my time with this. I think it took around 25-30 hours and it was just right at that length. I have no idea what possessed me to buy this with all signs pointing at it being a game I wouldn't like but it was one of the biggest pleasant surprises I'd had in a long time.
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