The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales Reviews
The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales is an enjoyable journey back to the 16-bit golden era of JRPGs. At the same time, It’s a shame, that the developers didn’t fully realize the game’s potential.
Review in Polish | Read full review
A magical journey that proves charm and craftsmanship can still go hand in hand.
The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales strikes the perfect balance between accessibility and depth. Its combat, the Magicite system, and its great story make it memorable, though low enemy variety and lack of traditional leveling may put off veterans.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales is a huge surprise. In times when The Legend of Zelda goes open-world sandbox and the Ys series becomes more and more JRPG, a classic action-adventure in the vein of The Legend of Zelda and Secret of Mana is truly welcome. With 30 to 50 hours, depending on how much you explore the world of Philabieldia and its clever time travel mechanic and urge to explore, The Legend of Elliot earns its place among the classics.
Review in Unknown | Read full review
The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales feels different and like an example of Square Enix taking a chance, and that’s why I loved this action-RPG.
Despite my frustrations, by the end, I just couldn’t find myself to truly dislike The Adventure of Elliot: The Millennium Tales as a whole. It just has too much heart, and I see a lot of room for improvement.
The Adventures of Elliot has so much untapped potential that it becomes frustrating even just talking about it: every single aspect of the game seems to have been designed without taking the others into account, but somehow the whole manages to be incredibly coherent with itself .
Review in Italian | Read full review
The Adventures of Elliot proves it can step outside their comfort zone and deliver a gorgeous, compact adventure that makes up in heart what it lacks in scope.
Review in Unknown | Read full review
The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales finds its place as a classic action RPG with Zelda-like exploration, smart time-travel ideas and a beautiful HD-2D presentation. Its story is predictable, but the combat, bosses and atmosphere make it very easy to recommend.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales is an excellent adventure game that will bring players back to the glory days of the genre. With multiple eras to explore, over-the-top boss fights to take on, and a surprisingly captivating story, it is a journey well worth taking despite its few shortcomings.
The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales isn't Square Enix's most ambitious game, nor does it set out to reinvent the genre. It is, quite simply, a lovingly crafted adventure that is aware of its influences and proud of them.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales is a pleasant adventure for both gaming veterans and casual players. It offers a wide variety of activities and puzzles that keep the fun factor very high, despite a few minor stumbles.
Review in Czech | Read full review
With The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales, Team Asano and Square Enix have clearly stated that "we didn't just make this genre for turn-based games," and they've delivered a game that proves it.
Review in Turkish | Read full review
The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales is a great nostalgic-themed action-adventure game from Square Enix. The HD-2D style shines in its action-adventure debut. It is not without some problems, but it ultimately delivers 20+ hours of fun and a wonderful story to experience. The combat is simple, the world is layered and very rich in a variety of locales. Not to mention the music being just as good as every HD-2D thus far. This game is absolutely worth every second you play in it. I could not recommend it enough, as it offers just a simple, warm, and fun adventure.
Team Asano proves the HD-2D aesthetic works beautifully outside turn-based JRPGs. A Zelda-inspired adventure that respects its influences without being defined by them, with a combat customization system that keeps you engaged long after the credits roll.
Review in Italian | Read full review
The Adventures of Elliot The Millennium Tales has all of the good “small” playable game on long phases or just the time of a small dungeon or to get closer to the next goal. Driven by an aesthetics now mastered by the teams of Square Enix and Claytechworks and embellished with an anime style for dialogues. The sound part is not on the same level. The overall experience is sympathetic, but can have boring segments, and please silence the fairy.
Review in French | Read full review
The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales is an excellent game that could be a great start to a new Square Enix action-adventure series. Though I think the tools are given out a bit too quickly, the exploration, combat, and narrative all succeed at what they set out to do, crafting a breezy and exciting title that’s certainly worth your time. I hope Elliot gets to take part in more adventures going forward, as I’d be there day one.
The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales is a beautiful, charming, and frequently brilliant action RPG that earns its inspirations. If Team Asano and Claytechworks get to make a sequel with this engine and the rough edges get smoothed out, they'll have something even more special.
The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales is a wonderful old-school, action-RPG adventure that’ll keep fans of the genre hooked from start to end. It successfully translates the beautiful HD-2D aesthetic into a fast-paced action experience, and between the rewarding combat, the clever dual-character mechanics, and a gorgeous world brimming with secrets to uncover, this is an adventure that you simply won’t want to see come to an end... good thing there are multiple endings, right?
The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales has pleasantly surprised me. Square Enix and Claytechworks have dared to step outside their comfort zone with a highly dynamic, beautiful action-RPG that features a combat system far more complex than it initially appears. Not everything works equally well, however: the repetition of environments across different eras, the level design, and the limited variety of enemies detract from the game’s appeal.
Review in Spanish | Read full review