Radiant Historia starts extremely strong, with a puzzle-box-esque structure to the time travel that sets itself apart from Chrono Trigger despite all the noise to the contrary, and a combat system that has so much going on it made me feel like a genius once I learned to capitalize on all of the mechanics. However, by about the halfway point the cracks began to show. The story refuses to reveal many of its biggest mysterious until it's foreshadowed them on such a large variety of occasions there is no impact when they land. Likewise, the combat system lost its charm for me as things didn't develop into interesting directions, particularly highlighted by having a really bad XP curve and questionable skillsets that makes using anything other than a couple of party members kind of pointless. The added narrative content of the Perfect Chronology version also undermines what did work about the story the base game was trying to tell, particularly the ending of the base game which is so bold that undercutting it feels like it should be a crime. I still liked this game quite a bit, but the problem areas grated me enough that I couldn't love it wholeheartedly the way I wanted to from the opening hours.

Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology FINISHED! 11/10 is a wonderful game! I had a TOTAL of 82:55 hours of game time until I did 100% of the time missions and bad endings and also the Possible world which is an addition to this version and leaves the game with a closed ending, it is very satisfying to see the hard work be finalized. Everything in the game has a closed ending without leaving any doubt in the player, and showing the end of each character in your party among others who helped you.

Lippti and Teo are intermediaries from that world where no matter what they did they only found misery, in countless timelines and always the world was destroyed by desertification, where the mana was being drained, and everything turned into sand and they only managed to end with this horrible ending thanks to the help of Stocke who became the bearer of the White Chronicles, Lippti and Teo are responsible for guiding Stocke through the timelines, avoiding any of them leading to the end of the world, a wrong decision, a villain killed in the wrong moment even a spy who is killed before his time would end up in a bad ending, this applies to members of your party as well when making the wrong choice ending you are saved and return to the gates of time, and with those memories saved and recorded in the White Chronicle, all your actions and missions are recorded in the book.

About your Party partners, for me, they are all unique and perfect! None are there to make numbers, all have an important role in the game's history, all have a goal.

About the story and writing of the game, all I have to say is praise, the exciting moments I can't count on one hand 😢 and the game is 100% dubbed from start to finish, which makes everything even more immersive and enjoyable. Let's face it, the game unfortunately doesn't have Japanese dubbing, I have no idea why at the time of the Nintendo 3DS, many localized games only had American dubbing, but I have to praise the Atlus team, they brought professionals who know how to dub a game and it was incredible!
I'm glad I discovered Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology

People might say this might be one of the best JRPGs the DS/3DS has to offer and I’m willing to agree with them. The story is gripping from the very start and the intrigue and mystery of the war in Valinqeuer and the white chronicle are compelling in building up to a climactic epic. What I found particularly unique is how well the gameplay and narrative intersects as a story device being tied to the actual gameplay with the white chronicle time travel mechanics used to navigate through the game.

I found the gameplay to actually be above typical JRPG standard-fare with the combo mechanics and enemy placement pretty engaging to learn though I found it to be pretty repetitive once you got the one combo that’s always a guarantee. Also a big issue is the nature of its progression as due to the switch between timelines means that characters won’t be with you through most of the games leading to most of your other party members besides Raynie and Marco to being underleveled. More an inconvenience than an actual flaw though since it's not really an issue as long as you’re fine with those two particular characters.

A lot of the characters are easy to get invested with as they all feel really human with the adequate amount of dialogue given to each important playable member (except Gutral, monkey folks really got shafted there). Even characters who I thought were going to stay as sidekicks actually got their spotlight like Kiel which made their highlight scenes pretty emotional. However, I have some gripes with it. Some events that occur off screen are unexplained and just handwaved like how Princess Eruca managed to contact the Gutrals or how Raul managed to get a hold of Princess Eruca in Cygna. These are minor issues though as it really doesn’t bother with my overall immersion in its narrative.

The visuals are amazing with how charming the sprite graphics are mixed with the gorgeous character portraits, be it the original DS or updated 3DS version with some amazing art in key important scenes. Pair this with an absolute banger Yoko Shimomura soundtrack and this is pretty close to a masterpiece in terms of presentation. It's funny that it reuses a lot of its assets from the DS era but I’d say this game is easily one of the best looking of the 3DS library.

Overall this game was actually worth all the hype people were pushing it for. It's one of those games where I’m actually going to 100% complete it because of how seamless the overall experience is that I just want to keep going. Just a solid package all-around, 8.5/10.

Comecei o jogo a alguns bons meses atrás, e faltando UMA hora pra zerar eu droppei, terminando de vez agora.

É um jogo lindo, a história é muito boa, o combate começa muito interessante mas no final fica beeem monótono. Repetitivo, exigindo bastante grind, além de ser um jogo que EXIGE que você faça cada centímetro dele pra ver o "True Ending" (vi no YouTube, sinceramente não estava afim de ficar +3-5 horas fazendo o restante das side quests).

É um bom jogo, sim, mas peca em muitos aspectos, sendo o motivo de eu não conseguir dar uma nota maior que 8/10, mas sem dúvidas é um puuuta jogo, uma pérola da Atlus presa no Nintendo 3DS.

Joguem!

I have to play more JRPGS man, lots of positive's things to point out of this, tho also some annoyances. First off, the voice acting is a neat addition and the fast paced combat (for a turn based rpg) is pretty fantastic! never got bored of it, the characters were also pretty good and I actually cared about them. Art style is the major reason for picking this one up because it reminded me of Pokémon Black/White, with a touch of medieval fantasy. My downsides for this game are minor, like there is a part where it drags a bit (slaying and using the cubes) and how convoluted some of the side quests were. Overall... underrated asf.

Legitimately special JRPG that could have been one of the very best of its genre had its remarkable foundation be more polished.
+ intriguing story centered around a unique time travelling mechanic that lets one replay anything at any time and choose different outcomes
+ inspired turn-based battle system focused on positioning and combos
+ almost exclusively important side quests whose completion leads to an extensive epilogue
+ very solid cast explored from various angles
+ beautifully melancholic soundtrack (of which some tracks are overused, however)
+ multiple antagonists from different factions keeping the suspense high
+ numerous interesting albeit short and forced "what if" scenarios on wrong choices
+ satisfactory quality of life with the ability to skip all kinds of repetition — ignoring the bothersome party formation resets
- well-conceptualized but rather small continent
- generic character portraits compared to the original game version
- poor utilization of the battle mechanics toward the end
- occasionally unreasonable steps to progress (e.g. a random NPC only present in one of the dozen time nodes)
- very low money and experience gain without the DLC (which is unobtainable legally now and also trivializes everything)

I played some of this game on my old Nintendo DS, and found it to be kind of mid. I didn't like the characters that much (they made a good first impression and then never developed beyond those impressions), and the battles were too slow.

Gaming discourse loves this game, though. Every reviewer and JRPG youtuber seems convinced that this one is a masterpiece, a stellar JRPG, a spiritual successor to Chrono Trigger.

I can't see what these people saw in this game. The story is very boring, so much that it propelled me to finish the game out of sheer spite. The mechanics are still meh. And I've also found the time travelling stuff to be very boring.

IDK. People love this game and the consensus is that this is a very good JRPG. I really can't agree with this. This game is mid and I didn't like it. I heard that this version has a different ending than the original DS game. If so, I wonder why they did it, because the ending of this game is awful (a sugar coated happy ending that feels like it was tacked on).

The best RPG the 3DS has to offer. Its turn-based combat is quite refreshing, and I had fun trying to maximize my combos and try to kill everything in one turn. The story also excellent and has great pacing (drags a bit in the midgame, but nothing too big), while most notably managing to do time travel without making the story a comvoluted mess. If you find yourself in a position to play 3DS games, I strongly suggest you at least give this game a go.

One part I'm not a fan of, though, is the content added in Perfect Chronology. In my opinion, it kinda lessens the original ending while also making the new ending a bit too convoluted for me. You can also easily tell what was in the original and what was in Perfect Chronology (this comes from a European player who couldn't get his hands on the original release on DS)