Chaos Rings III -ENCODERS-

Note: This article actually FAN-MADE, but hoping CHAOS RINGS will be Remake.

CHAOS RINGS 3 -ENCODERS-
Developers
Developer(s)	Virtuous Epic Production Media Vision
Publisher(s)	Square Enix
Director(s)	Takehiro Ando Nao Nakatoya
Designer(s)	Akiko Shioya
Writer(s)	Yukinori Kitajima
Artist(s)	Akiko Shioya
Composer(s)	Noriyasu Agematsu Uta Atsushi
Technical Information
Engine(s)	Unreal Engine 4
Platform(s)	PlayStation 4 PlayStation 5 Xbox Series X/S Nintendo Switch STEAM (MIcrosoft Windows)
Genre(s)	Role-Playing Game
Mode(s)	Single-Player

CHAOS RINGS III ENCODERS or -Flowers Dream of Blue Planet- (For Japanese version) is the remake version of original game CHAOS RINGS III for Smartphone, availability for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 4 Pro, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Switch and STEAM. The remake game will be using Unreal Engine 4 as a base game engine for CHAOS RINGS III ENCODERS and Unreal Engine 5 exclusively for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X.

It features a Fully Remake indirect Sequel to the first game, CHAOS RINGS III focused on the young boy who dreamed of going to paradise with his friends, they discovered the unknown view planet called Marble Blue

As the game has re-doing assets from original games, it wouldn't be a simple HD remake but as a remake with the fully major improvement which revamped gameplay, system, and direction storyline, although the story still same but will be expanded and new which never seen before by fans, Battle Mode will be removed with new tournament battle climax which introduces new challenges. there will be new Downloadable content added to the story,

it's Sequel titled as CHAOS RINGS III-2 and it's a prequel titled as CHAOS RINGS III -Memories of Cosmos-

Synopsis

Nasca, The young boy who had a dream to follow his father's footsteps in becoming an Explorer and discovering a beautiful place called Paradise.

Nasca suddenly guided by a strange entity called Mariv who appears in his dreams, although his younger sister Patty is initially doubtful and unsupportive about his decision, she eventually decides to come with Nasca to help him settle down in the town called New Paleo.

As he makes his way to become a full-fledged Explorer, you became friends with Daisuke, Leary, Alfred, and Elroux (a strange unknown girl who is supposedly the human daughter of Mariv).

His friend's team will eventually make his way into the unknown and discover new places.

Change

Visual

• Graphical Identical Unreal Engine 4 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 4 Pro, Nintendo Switch and STEAM.
  • It will also updated its graphical for Unreal Engine 5 exclusively for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, also available for Epic Game Store.
• Re-update visual graphical to be more vibrant looks and more beautiful aspect with Unreal Engine 4 which new engine expressional for Old School RPG match for PS4-Spec.
• A fully-HD Resolution in 1080p with 16:9 widescreen and Fully 4K Resolution PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 4 Pro.
• 60 Frame rate Per Second output maximum, the game running more smoothly than the original.
• Remake directive cutscene in which the direction of the story will change to be more detailed on real-life graphical in Full-HD.
• Adding Psych, lighting, dynamic texture, HBAO, FOV, ray trace reflections, shadowing, and More. Including updated all assets which reformatting into an Unreal Engine 4.
• High-resolution movie and underwent character model spec to be more fully detailed.
• Background and UI Texture and some UI has been remade to be more full-spec.
• New Control on Traditional Controller with an improved camera.
• Higher detailed shadows and anti-aliasing support.
• Both the X and Y camera axes can be inverted.
• A transparent overlay map is available.
• Visual effect underwent improved more to be more visual looks with PlayStation 4 Spec.

Sound

• The sound quality improvement and voice quality, including 7.1 HD Dolby Surround Support.
• 34 new soundtracks for CHAOS RINGS III ENCODERS and 25 remastered soundtracks with new elements and arrangement.
• English VA has been recorded. The game will include new Dual-Audio for Japanese and English.
• Original VA of CHAOS RINGS III reprise for recorded lines for extended scene, new scene, battle line, missing line, new story, new episode and more.
• Additional new sub-voice for crowds, including for Explorer one.
• Nasca as the protagonist will finally have his own fully-voice line which now been recorded by Matsuoka Yoshitsugu along with his brand-new personalities character story directions, dynamic interactions, emotional dialogues, and more. The dialogue box dialogues is fully voiced as it allowed you to choose the answer which lead to different outcomes of the story.
• The sound effect underwent improved more to be more detailed.
• New theme songs for CHAOS RINGS III ENCODERS
• Kana Hanazawa will reprise her role for voice Yae.

Game System

• The game system changed from touch-screen usage to the more traditional ways with support accessibility for Console and Steam.
• PlayStation trophies and achievement for PlayStation Network and Steam.
• Shorter loading times.
• Auto-save added.
• Menu boxes are now Brighter Blue. A new option which allows you to edit a color of menu boxes freely as you want.
• Accessibility for Downloadable Content, including for Story Chronicles DLC and Expansion Update.
• The save menu is modified.
• A new setting for combat mode, which allows you to choose Classical Mode or Modern Mode
  • The Classical Mode will features a command and UI combat system based on the Original CHAOS RINGS III, but with few improvements.
• Gallery added. You can listen to music or watch a movie recorded, but there's more plenty to be available in Gallery Mode
  • It also allows you to witness all art illustration, concept art, character design, world concept, designation of lore, and many more.
• A new option is added to the title menu, "Credits" that plays a new credits sequence showing a number of credits new to the version of the game.

Area City/Town

• The player can freely roam to Cities and can interact with other people.
• Increase crowds of people in Town and City.
• The area exploration linear has been changed into more openly explored with new area design that be able to explore freely.
• He can also freely roam to a different place in New paleo City.
• 100 New treasures added in New Paleo.
• Similar Characters will appear in New Paleo City as well.
• The select area might be a linear part of the New Paleo System, but there will be expanded area town length which will have more to explore and more openly discover new things.
• The Player can eat Ramens and any other foods, especially with addition to contributes status increased, Status Effect, and Special Effect.
• There are many shops, restaurants and more will be increased it contribute status.
• There will be also several towns has been expanded its area length which conducted into 2 Hours discovered Areas with new treasures, new dungeon availability, new shops equipment & items, a new restaurant, and new puzzle games.
• NPC in Town has been improved its model, including new NPC, has been added.
• "Paradise City" will be explore at limited only for Main Story, however, you can interact with people from past thousand years and met some similar characters which had different structure characteristic.
• Fusion Gene to get The strongest Gene has been revised to be much easier to gets.

Enhancement System

Basic Control & Menu Enhancement

• The amount save data slots for each game has been increased from three to 99 slots.
• UI Items slot has been divided into two slots, and the amount of items has been increased into 99.
• The maximum amount of single items you can hold has been increased from 90 to 99.
• You can now switch between the item menu tabs with a single button.
• Shortcut controls have been added to the item menu.
• The UI design has been adjusted to make each equipment's empty slot amount easier to understand.
• Equipment had attributes status now which had ATK, MAG ATK, DEF, and LUCK which now added on Weapon and Armor included Special effect which for example: Increased 20% Strength or Resisted Poison.
• Zodiac gift where you can summon Zodiac will have their own menu which you can summon Zodiac every you want, however, you can summon them for one battle.
• Strategies support has been adjusted.

Field Enhancement

• Enemy status has gradually changed.
• Trapped has been added.
• As the field area been expanded, it also increase sight number of enemies and monster during the exploration.
• Areas and field underwent improved, including some several changes structure on areas.
• 38 A random new treasure that contained new items and new materials.

Battle Enhancement

• A feature has been added to skip the zodiac awakening scene.
• Art Ascendant will have new moves and some direction changes feature.
• The amount of additional damages from the enemy has been revised.
• The battle balanced has been revised.
• Escape action has gradually improved.
• The amount of damages players to enemies has been revised and revamped.
• A feature has been added to the Combo Strike attack which can attack for 3 Times combo attack.
• Raksasha Lotus moved action has been revised which delivered Four Times attack combo to enemies with additional amount damages.
• Asura Lotus moved action has been revised which delivered 7 times combo attack of enemies with additional damages.
• The probability that an enemy will inflict status ailments such as paralysis or sleep has been lowered.

Gene

• Several Gene status has been tweaked and made more improvement since the original game.
• Additional new bonuses skills added to the game, after you levelling up genes into an maximum level.
• Gene fusion and price has been reduced to make it easier for players to earn a new rarity card.
• You can now buy the skills and gene at Mariv's Garden.
• The Gene Menu has been adjusted.
• Amount of Gene has gradually increased.

Character model

• Character model has been majorly improved, a new portrait expression personality added to the cutscene dialogue and some new outfit or costume will affect the story and characters dialogue portraits.
• Animation idle for playable characters, including non-playable characters added to the game.
• Improvements for character models animation with several tweaks, adjustment and brand-new fluids with smoother animation.
• Shadowing texture for character added and improves from its original version.
• Several NPC Character models has gradually improved and adding several new parts for them.
• Hair model animation featured more psych and movement to make more fluid & smoother.
• All character models has been remodeled in Higher-Quality and also with Unreal Engine 4 version.
• Characters personalities and wider expression being improved more. It also were implemented into its character models thanks to Unreal Engine 4.
• New characters: Aldrei and Nero.
• Traits expression has been added.
• Revamped Characters Movement and Direction.
• A new Character Costume Design for Main Story which can be changed in later Chapters.
• NPC Characters has gradually improved, included new sound effect crowded.
• Yae's Character Model gradually improved, with added lot of new facial expression.
• Explorer NPC will have another weapon that can use, like Spear Mechanics, Gun, Two-Handed Sword and Many more which never revealed in Original Game.
• Volhelm Character's model has been improved more, and now upgraded with a new weapon as Two-Handed Sword and also had Sword Skill which never been used in the original. His initial sword as a Sword of Eden which had multiple skills and effects that can absorb Party Members HP for only three turns.
• Characterization and Development for Auz have gradually improved which had a mysterious personality that fans cannot be seen, and his connection for future series.

New Feature

• Live-Turn Based RPG Combat - The combat system will be using more real-time Turn Based RPG system which is an major improvement from the original CHAOS RINGS III and als have similarity style with Dragon Quest XI and Yakuza: Like a Dragon. It ala lows player to use surrounding items or weapons during a battle.
  • It also featured command shortcut button which similarity with Persona 5 and Yakuza: Like a Dragon.
• Gene Materials and Fusion - A new feature in which a player can collect stronger genes with Materials Gifts which can be fused together to create a stronger Gene.
• SSR Rank of Gene - The most legendary rarity gene card which can only find by obtaining the ultimate gift materials known as Golden gift in certain secret area or defeating hardest boss. You use it to upgrade your card into SSR rank as the level will be up to Level 150-180.
• Abilities - It features which allows party to using many different set skills for combat and even for exploration, also allows you to boost your experience, and many different things which allows you to bring more progression during the main story. It can only earned during mission, or during fusing and mastering abilities on Gene.
• Temporary Playable Characters - A Support Characters can join battles as Temporary Characters which be support attack or heal and more. 
• Change Party Member during battle - You can change Party during a battle, you can change your party again for the next turn.  
• Art Artscendant Party - You can activate a special attack with two or three parties that can use an attack or magic gene which performed the stronger attack.
• Choice - The dialogue box will allows you to choose which will lead to the some minor or major events to occur based on your choice. It also will trigger some and several events that you will earn more new sub-mission and main mission which brings you toward a new story.
• Strongest Mode and Trial Mode - You can choose Three modes like Trial, Normal and Strongest. In Trial Mode, you don't need to level up, and enemies start at a low level every you fight. In Strongest Mode, The Enemies will gain more and more strongest, so you need to choose New Game+ to get the Strongest Level.
• New Game+ - A new Choose, you can start from the beginning with a new initial level 30+ with Stronger Gene choose initial for the party. it can also carry everything from the Game while you earn more bonuses like rare items, weapon, some easter egg, key items, and more.
• Free-days - After Episode, you can go for free days with your friends, like if you want to spend your time with Leary, Daisuke, Elroux or Alfred. You can go freely to explore New Paleo or any other City and inviting your friends to play together or spending time with it.
• Bonds Meter - If you increase your Bonds Meter during Art Artscendant, you can choose your party member up to 2 or 3 members which you want to go out for exploring and if Bonds Meter increased, you will get an additional scene which shown your interaction to party.
• A Multiple Ending - You can select a new ending which available when you choose your path. It included a bad ending, good ending, true ending, and joke ending. You earn all of the endings depends on your choice during certain events.
• Mini-Games - Featuring a brand-new mini-games which based on New Paleo or every other cities Culture or with advance mini-games which also contains a challenges and puzzles.
• Tournament Battle - You can battle with a monster high level in Arena, including new characters that tie to CHAOS RINGS III-2 will appear in Tournament. The system elements are the same from Battle modes, but with different unique elements, traits, quirk and battle style which revealed.
  • It also features all elements and contents from BATTLE MODE of CHAOS RINGS III which has been reworked and available for Tournament Battle.

Story Mode Changes

Story Change

• Over 50 new cutscene added which expand new characterization focused on Main Characters and Support Characters interaction. it also covers a new expansion story and extended original scene which will be more detailed.
• Over 30 new cinematic scene which has Original Story, Newly expanded scene and adapted the actual scene into a cinematic scene. 5 new cinematic cutscene has been remastered with filled new emotion and new personality which can attract fans' attention.
• Original CGI cinematic scene has been remade with the power of Unreal Engine 4 which can express new feelings to the characters.
• Nasca will be fully voiced, but it also has a fully dialogue choice which transpire a new evolution, rather than just being quiet silent protagonist. But he has his own unique traits and personality depends what you choose in certain progression.
• The rewritten script for CHAOS RINGS III ENCODERS which matched to modernize Script style. there are some error translation which has been revised into new.
• Increase the volume story with a brand-new subtle, tone, direction and more which makes the game story more impactful than the original ones.
• Expanded story feature for "Prologue" which length story will be over 1-2 hours, with larger area length, with the original story, and a new direction for Prologue story. 
• 100 new dialogue which expanded their backstories, personality, background characters, new plot-hole, more detailed dialogue, new interaction, and Humor. there are some new sexual words which included in the remakes.
• Several dialogues and name that were inconsistently has been fixed.
• Several reference and additional dialogues that made ties to CHAOS RINGS III -Memories of Cosmos- and few indirect mentioned ties from CHAOS RINGS.

• The new secret ending cutscene added to the game, bringing ties to the CHAOS RINGS III-2.

New Episode & Main Story Mission

• Episode IV Storyline largely expand into 2 Episode
  • EPISODE IV of original CHAOS RINGS III has largely expanded and divided into 2 Episode, which Paradise Arc was served as First Half and Final Battle Arc on CHAPTER V was served as Second Half which made perfect balance to expanded into 2 Episode.
    • It will also largely expand the story with more detailed story, original story, a new mission, and the new boss battle.
• Fortune-Teller's Request which featured Denedev as key plot to the this story, but it would be a part from it's story, but brought you to expand the lores of CHAOS RINGS III and newly exploration that you were never seen before.
  • You need to finish the Second Chapter before entering to the Fortune Teller's Request.
  • It allows you to obtained the ability known as Prediction which allows you to predict enemies next move during a Combat Mode or navigate the way you destined to go during Exploration mode.
    • It also has its own level which allow you to improves the ability level of Prediction even more further.
  • You freely to enter the request or not, but it will granted you several additional cutscenes and additional secret movies tie to its sequel.

• Explorer Runner-Up Challenge will featured all-gathering Explorer which came from across the countries, city, and around the world. In search for Ultimate Treasures known as EMERALD which came somewhere which unable for anyone to found it for thousands of years which is known as the ancient items. There are more explorer who came in order to find that one.
  • The story will features conspiracies and dark shadow behind the progression of Runner-Up Challenge and Nasca along with his friend need to uncover the mystery behind this event.
  • It can be unlocked Between EPISODE 2 and EPISODE 3, but it is standalone that didn't connect to the main story, but it's very important main story which connect to the MORPHIA WAR and Johannes himself.
  • A brand-new characters will be appear in this story, and completing all of this story will allow them to appear in Later main story.
    • It brings ties to them to appear in possible spin-off and it's sequel to CHAOS RINGS III.
• The Tales of Old Civilization
• Summer of Days
• The Lingering of the Daybreak

• "Epilogue" Episode will have 15 original main story mission of Post-Game which will be focused on characters after a final battle.
  • A brand-new post game story mission will features new epic story after the final battle, which majorly adds a brand new story and ties toward the future works. It also focuses on developing a few certain characters and tease for characters that would appear in CHAOS RINGS III-2.
  • It also includes several new contents for Post-Game, such as:
    • A brand-new dungeon: Omega, Earth Beyond, StarShip, and [UNKNOWN]
    • New Superboss: The Giant Incarnatus, Soluce, Hyper-Robot AI, and Leviathan.
    • Ultimate Boss: Ultima Weapon, The Ruler, and Unknown Man.
  • A new ending will be much surprising and shocked at the moment that hinted for the upcoming sequel to CHAOS RINGS III.

New Quest

• Over 50 new missions with rank B for each episode, you can start a mission whenever you want which can express a new adventure and new humor dialogue.
• Over 20 new missions with rank A & B for the main story, which been expanded for each episode with a new original story that can be expressed.
• Several unexpected cutscene will happen as they continue progressing the side story or main story mission.

Main Story Chapter Change

A Mirror of Mirror

"A new main mission which encountered Alfred with Johannes which he revealed himself about his past from alternate universe and mysterious past which never been revealed, before arrived in Paradise. it lasts long 1-2 hours of story length."

It is also brings ties to CHAOS RINGS which explaining about a multiverse and how Als awareness toward Johannes true existence, including Johannes's awareness about the future after he went to the past causing a paradox and splitting the timeline into the alternate one.

Endless Ruin

• The reformat five Cutscenes from the original game to be a cinematic scene with fully voice actors. And new dialogue which more detailed story on Drei 6 and Alfred.
• A Continuation from Mirror of Mirror has connected to Dialogue which made connection Drei 6 and Johannes.
• Fully recorded voice and also recorded a new dialogue on major characters and Drei 6.
• 3 new flashback cutscene added.

Abyss of Fate

• Fully voice recorded along with new-voice recorded for new dialogue for major characters and Auz, and new direction story which made more detailed.
• New dungeon called "intern-Dimension" which player can explore the area dungeon and new challenges & bosses have been added.
• 20 new cutscene and dialogue which extended and detailed more about his motives, there's also mentioned characters from CHAOS RINGS III -Memories of Cosmos- which will be a mystery to the player.
• New cutscene which featured new characters which never shown in the original.

Story of Hope

• A full-voice recorded along with a new voice recorded for a new dialogue.
• Over 10 new cutscene which has been added with 15 new dialogues, which detailed the story with a new essence of flashback and new flash climax to the story.
• With your bonds meter has increased more, you can perform a new attack for True Incarnatus.
• 1 new post-credit ending featuring new characters teased for CHAOS RINGS III-2.
• The final Attack for True Incarnatus has been replaced with new special abilities called Rise of Hope to the Planet which can use performed ultimate attack to Entity.

New Episode

[COMING SOON]

Port

STEAM

• Nvidia Gameworks Support added.
• The game is compatible with 21:9 ultra-wide monitors. Up to three HD monitors can be used for a potential 48(16x3):9 experience.
• Choose voice language added Japanese and English. 
• Language added included English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, France, Europe, Spanish, and Indonesia.
• 4K Resolution Support with fully running on 60 FPS support.
• New Game Plus and New Game Minus are now accessible from the beginning of the game.
• Dolby Atmos Sound Technology.
• Three background music options—the original, re-orchestrated and soundtrack versions—are now available from the beginning of the game.
• Customize Keyboard & Mouse and Controller buttons.
• Featuring an option to skip the cutscene.
• Photo Mode can be saved into a gallery on computers.
• Parameters mode activities, which includes ans unlimited Gil, unlimited GP and get all gift.
• Built-in graphics option, Resolution, Anisotropic, Anti-Aliasing, Post-draw anti-aliasing, HBAO, Texture mode has been added.
• Photos and Music can be saved on your computers.
• Boosters are added to the configuration screen which grant players maximum GP and GIL

PS5 & XBOX SERIES X

• Updated graphical identical from Unreal Engine 4 to Unreal Engine 5.
• Includes all downloadable contents, along with Story Chronicles and Expansion Update DLC.
• Includes few improvements and contents from Steam version.
• Added 4K and 8K resolution support along with up to 120 Frame Rate Per Second.
• Controller support for Dual Sense and for Xbox Series X controller (Possibly "Elite 3")
• Immersive Audio and Sound effect improvements.

• Improved the assets and graphical visual performance.
• Ray Tracing added to the game.

• Remove the loading screen.

• Enhanced ray-traced reflection, lighting, shadowing, and HBAO+.
• Sightly improved the animation fluids and even more smoother.
• An option for 4x speed is added alongside 2x for the speed mode feature, and play time operability is improved during use.
• Some dialogue scene that weren't been voiced are now recorded with extended dialogues added on it.
• Added several parts of visual which makes it more real.
• Data Transfer Benefits for CHAOS RINGS III -Memories of Cosmos- which carrying over the equipments, items, and key items, also adds several cutscenes that ties to the prequel.

Nintendo Switch

• 720p Resolution support running on 30FPS for undocked and 1080p Resolution support running on 60FPS for docked.
• Visual graphical been optimized and adjusted to fit the spec performance for Nintendo Switch.
• Controller support for Nintendo Switch, for Portable and Docking.
• Featuring HD Rumble, Touch Screen, and Optimization HUD.

Downloadable Content (DLC)

Expansion Pack Features

Comrades

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