Astonishia Story
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| Developer(s) | Sonnori |
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| Platform(s) | MS-DOS, GP32, Microsoft Windows, Mobile phone, PlayStation Portable |
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MS-DOS
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| Genre(s) | Role-playing video game |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
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| GameRankings | 50.76% |
| Metacritic | 48/100 |
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| Publication | Score |
| Edge | 4/10 |
| EGM | 4/10 |
| Eurogamer | 3/10 |
| Game Informer | 4.25/10 |
| Game Revolution | D |
| GameSpot | 6/10 |
| GameSpy |    |
| GameZone | 6/10 |
| IGN | 5.5/10 |
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Astonishia Story (어스토니시아 스토리) is a series of 2D role-playing video games created by the Korean video game developer Sonnori. The first game in the series was released as Astonishia Story for MS-DOS in South Korea in 1994. A sequel, also for Windows, was released in July 1994 in South Korea under the title Astonishia Story: Forgotten Saga. On January 21, 2002, a remake of the original game, Astonishia Story R was published for the Korean GP32 handheld system. It was subsequently ported to the Windows and Sony PlayStation Portable platforms.
The PSP rendition of Astonishia Story R was released in 2005 as Astonishia Story, having been enhanced further and adjusted to fit the PSP's 16:9 screen ratio. The game has since been licensed by Ubisoft and was published in the United States on June 27, 2006 and in Europe on June 30, 2006. This is the first time that a game in the Astonishia Story series has made it to Western shores. Unfortunately, the English translation was considered very poor as it is full of grammatical errors.
100 years ago the Life Tree died and the elves began to die out. Brimhil, the eternally youthful queen of the elves, gave up her youth to revive the Tree. 100 years later, in the present, elves are being mistreated by humans and a half-elf Francis De La Cross attempts to obtain the power of the god-like creature to turn the tables and restore Brimhil's youth before she dies.
A young knight named Sir Lloyd von Roiental is transporting a holy staff known as the Wand of Kinan(카이난의 지팡이). He is ambushed and the staff is stolen by Francis, and Lloyd goes off to recover it. Along the way, he is joined by several other people who join his quest for different reasons.
The PSP version was met with very mixed to negative reception upon release, as GameRankings gave it a score of 50.76%, while Metacritic gave it 48 out of 100.
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