Cris Tales
Cris Tales is a PlayStation 5 role-playing game developed by Dreams Uncorporated. It centers on combat encounters, area and route exploration, and character progression, with controls and information arranged around the DualSense twin sticks, triggers, directional pad, and face buttons, with touchpad, motion input, adaptive triggers, and detailed haptics where the game uses them.
- AI score · out of 10
- 7.7 / 10
About this game
Cris Tales is a PlayStation 5 role-playing game centered on combat encounters, area and route exploration, and character progression. Story beats, exploration, and progression resources support a longer campaign, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Characters, world building, environments, and music carry most of the atmosphere, while SSD streaming, 4K and HDR output, 3D audio, performance or quality modes, and high-density interfaces need to preserve feedback and information clarity together. The genre-specific limitation is that dense text, menu layers, repeated battles, loading, or language dependence can slow progress. Platform conditions also include install size, SSD space, patch version, DualSense battery life, visual mode and frame rate, online dependencies, PS VR2 requirements, and cross-generation version differences affect the current release. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.
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PlayStation 5AI review
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Time manipulation adds imagination to a conventional RPG journey.
Cris Tales makes consequences visible by showing past, present and future together. Helping a town can therefore change something the player immediately sees, rather than only a line of dialogue. Time also changes combat: poison can be accelerated, a wet shield can rust, and an enemy age can alter its threat. Position on the battlefield matters to those possibilities. Ordinary encounters do not always demand that creativity, however, and repeated battles for resources slow the journey. Distinctive illustrated scenery gives the adventure a fairy-tale identity despite familiar characters and story beats. The PS5 battle layout communicates its time regions clearly, with timed button inputs adding practice beyond menu selection. Its strongest audience is traditional RPG players curious about a new tactical idea.
Strengths
- Time combines meaningfully with status effects.
- Visual timelines show consequences of choices.
Weaknesses
- Repeated encounters and grinding slow travel.
Who it is for: Traditional RPG players interested in time-based tactics.
Play notes: Based on 2021 PS5 reviews; later patches and unmeasured frame rates are not assessed.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension New allies refresh options, but encounter and supply grinding repeatedly interrupt travel. | Reviewed | 6.8 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Time and status combinations provide tactical options, though routine battles do not consistently require them. | Reviewed | 7.9 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Three simultaneous time states make consequences visible, giving the art purpose beyond decoration. | Reviewed | 8.3 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Clear time regions support battle reading, while timed button presses add a learning demand. | Reviewed | 7.7 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Dreams UncorporatedSYCK
- Publisher
- Maximum
- Release date
- Jul 20, 2021
- Platforms
- PlayStation 5
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Role-Playing · Primary genre
- Tags
- Story-drivenFantasyLong-term ProgressionExploration3D GraphicsReal-time CombatThird PersonMain Story 20–50 HoursTurn-based CombatLevel ProgressionSolo-friendly
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Single player
- Perspectives
- Side view
Release editions
- PlayStation 5WorldwideJul 20, 2021
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