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The Sacred Tears True

The Sacred Tears True is a doujin RPG that blends the best of the JRPG genre with innovative and fun game elements, plus high quality art and music in one honest-to-goodness gem of a game.

65 19 February 2006

The Sacred Tears True is an indie developed by AlphaNuts, released 19 February 2006 on iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What The Sacred Tears True is

The Sacred Tears True is an indie game developed by AlphaNuts and released in 2006. It is available on iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on RPG Maker.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Seil and his childhood friend Seana are neophyte thieves in the Thieves Guild of Genoseed City. By day they work at their private investigation agency, “Millionaire”; by night they undertake missions across the city on behalf of the Thieves Guild. Sacred Tears TRUE is the story of these young thieves and their pursuit of dreams and adventure. Sacred Tears TRUE brings both traditional JRPG elements and fresh and unique features such as a deceptively simple but deep card battle system, redistributable skill points, graphics by Takashi KONNO (Shichinin no Bukiya), and music by Hiroyuki Ojima (Accel World, When They Cry anime) and Shimotsuki Haruka (Atelier Iris, Ace Attorney Orchestral…
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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.

How it was received

The Sacred Tears True holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 23% of the 5,101 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored about average for its year.

What it launched against

The Sacred Tears True launched on 19 February 2006, within three weeks of The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, Muv-Luv Alternative and The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, Muv-Luv Alternative, The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC.

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When did The Sacred Tears True come out?
The Sacred Tears True was released on 19 February 2006 for iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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