The Legend of Heroes: A Tear of Vermillion (2005) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

The Legend of Heroes: A Tear of Vermillion

The fourth game in the Legend of Heroes series and the second in the Gagharv Trilogy. The PSP remake was renamed to simply "The Legend of Heroes: A Tear of Vermillion" and was the first entry in the storied…

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What The Legend of Heroes: A Tear of Vermillion is

The Legend of Heroes: A Tear of Vermillion is an adventure game developed by MiCROViSion and released in 2005. It was published by Bandai. It is available on PlayStation Portable, PlayStation and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

The setting for the fourth Legend of Heroes game and the second in the Gagharv Trilogy takes place in the fictional land of El Phildin, fifty-six years before the events of "Moonlight Witch". The story begins with an insight to the past. Avin and Eimelle are orphaned children, ages 10 and 8 respectively, who are living in the city of Cathedral after being taken in by Supreme Priest Esperius. Avin is seen bringing milk for the kitten Eimelle snuck into the chapel. They both watch it drink to its heart's content. Before long, Oracle Ollesia appears. The children panic at being caught with the smuggled kitten, but Ollesia doesn't seem too concerned with that, yelling at them to take cover…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Dragon Slayer series

The Legend of Heroes: A Tear of Vermillion is the 23rd of 26 entries we hold in the Dragon Slayer series. It arrived 4 years after Sorcerian Original. The next entry was Xanadu Next in 2005.

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How it was received

The Legend of Heroes: A Tear of Vermillion holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 24% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 2 points below the year average.

What it launched against

The Legend of Heroes: A Tear of Vermillion launched on 2 June 2005, within three weeks of Battlefield 2, Advance Wars: Dual Strike, Killer7 and Chibi-Robo!. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Battlefield 2, Advance Wars: Dual Strike, Killer7, Chibi-Robo!.

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