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Rainbow Moon
Embark on an epic adventure that leads you through a beautiful, isometric, open world with detailed high-definition visuals. Rainbow Moon is a strategy RPG with a strong emphasis on exploration, character development and turn-based battles. Six playable main characters with upgradeable weapons, armor and accessories; about 100 special skills and mo...
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- Released
- July 3, 2012
- Developer
- SideQuest Studios
- Genres
- Role-playing (RPG) · Strategy · Turn-based strategy (TBS) · Adventure
- Publisher
- Eastasiasoft
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Rainbow Moon Reviews
Professional reviews from gaming critics
The rub with Rainbow Moon is that it’s a serious time investment. But for gamers that do enjoy a stat-driven, equipment-changing, side quest-completing grind, spending time with Rainbow Moon is time well spent, especially considering its costs a meager $15. As many contemporary RPGs dash in a more accessible direction, Rainbow Moon remains stalwart as a champion of the past. Gamers rooted in the old-school owe it to themselves to play it.
Rainbow Moon debuted way back in 2012 and it's finally available for Switch so let's unearth an SRPG gem and see what it's all about.
In anticipation of the sequel “Rainbow Skies” being released this year, developers SideQuest Studios and publisher eastasiasoft have re-released Rainbow Moon for current audiences on the PS4. Wearing its heart on its sleeve in showing the influences behind it, Rainbow Moon’s gameplay style returns to a simpler time of RPG rarely seen in the modern console generation. But how does the game fare four years after its initial release?<img decoding="async" data-attachment-id="23852" data-permalink="https://press-start.com.au/reviews/2016/02/19/rainbow-moon/attachment/b_story-15/" data-orig-file="ht...
Rainbow Moon is a strategy RPG with a strong emphasis on exploration, character development and turn-based battles.
60+ hours of RPG for just 15 bucks, where could you go wrong?I love downloadable games for their often unique concepts and gameplay mechanics but most seem to end up [...]
Rainbow Moon is not a good choice for people who are looking for a narrative, but for fans of the old school, punishingly difficult, hardcore JRPGs, this is a nice throwback with an awful lot of raw gameplay behind it. It’s not so much a weekend buster as an entire holiday to work through, and as such, for its specific niche, it represents enormous value.
That's no moon, it's actually an entire planet. Read on to find out the feeling it elicited from our reviewer.