Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon

This year, an emotional adventure like no other is coming to Europe and Australia on Nintendo Wii^TM...

Seto may be the last human alive. He buried his grandfather at the end of the summer.

Desperately lonely, he decides to search for other survivors on this ruined and dying planet.

But he will have to fight off the demons and ghosts that haunt this forsaken and crumbling world, while piecing together the mystery of mankind's disappearance.

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NintendoLife, 8/10: "Graphically and aurally the title excels in offering a world unlike any other, and for fans of intelligent, emotive gaming there's no brighter torchbearer than this."

Zentendo, 8/10: "a beautiful, emotional, and insightful look into what defines us as humans. It pushes the boundaries of storytelling in games and is another fantastic addition to the Wii library."

Official Nintendo Magazine, 72%: "it really is a journey worth making."

Cubed3, 9/10: "Fragile Dreams' story is filled to the brim with emotion, moments of dry humour, true tear-jerking scenes and even some haunting sections that help keep the player gripped through the whole journey."

Features

Gorgeous graphics and lighting effects: high production values bring the desolate but eerily beautiful world to life as the lighting reflects realistically off environments.

Emotional story: the game's focus is on the human drama as a boy wanders a post-apocalyptic world in search of companionship.

Moving musical score: a haunting and inspired soundtrack featuring tracks by popular Japanese artist Aoi Teshima

Wii Remote functions as a flashlight and as a proximity sensor to track invisible ghosts.

User reviews

Seto may be the last human alive, he buried his grandfather at the end of the summer, and now that he is desperately lonely, he decides to search for other survivors on this ruined and dying planet.
He finds his old flashlight, and finds a letter from his dead grandfather whit a strange blue crystal next to it, than he meets a demon/ghost that says that he´s meant for something special.

Then he goes on a journey to find more people on the plant, not long in he´s journey he finds a silver hair girl who is sitting and staring at the moon, she sings about how big and beautiful the moon is, but when she sees seto she falls and faints, and just as seto is about to touch her she wakes up and runs away, before seto get to say anything she´s gone, seto follows her, finally he know that there are other people than himself.
Now he´s on a journey to find the silver hair girl, and find out the mystery of mankind´s disappearance.

Fragile Dream is an action adventure game that puts you in the role of a young boy named seto, the game is an combination of rpg and action adventure, you fight ghosts and demons with a large collection of weapons, you get weapons like bamboo sticks and boomerangs and many more, the game starts with you only having a flashlight, which you have out true the entire game, later in the game you get defect kinds of flashlights, some that can see hidden text and more.
The rpg elements in the game are things like leveling up as you kill enemies, and when you get new levels you become stronger and deal more damage, there is also an inventory that is a little like tetris, there you only have room for things that can fit In the bag the right way, that means that when you find an item, the item well have a shape that only can fit if you have your bag space in the right way.
There are checkpoints in the game where you can save your progress or buy new items from the strange popped man, it is also at the checkpoints that you can store and empty your bag for stuff, most of the stuff you find in Fragile is things that tells a background story of the game, so when you get to a checkpoint you get a little background story for each item you have found.
The game uses real time combat, where you ether use long range weapons or close combat weapons, the enemies in the game are mostly in groups, that mean that in most of the game you are fighting more than one enemy a once, some of the enemies have some fight patterns that you need to look into, like there is one kind of enemy that you only can hurt when it opens its eye.
The game controls with you pointing at the screen to ether point your flashlight at something, or to line up you long range shoots, you move seto with the analog stick, and you pick up items with the A bottom, and attack with the B bottom.

The game is only on the Nintendo Wii, which means that It isn't HD graphics, and many polygons, but when it comes to art, Fragile is like no other, one of the strongest things about this game is its art, if you like Japanese anime or manga, you will find yourself right at home in this games art.
But probably the biggest thing in Fragile is its story, it has some of the best story in a video game to date, and it's not just a good story, it's also a touching story that will make you fill sad at times, the story in Fragile is told in small bits, where in each bit you meet a new person, and at the end of the game you find out how all the bits comes together.
Fragile is a game that I can recommend to all that love good and emotional stories, people that love anime and/or manga, or people who would like to try something new and refreshing, but this game isn't all perfect, there are places in the game that take longer than they should, with means that some sequences starts to be a bit boring, another thing that's not all great with this game is its combat, its too simple and fills stiff a times, clearly not the greatest combat in a video game by today's standard.
But in the end, fragile makes up for this in story and in art, and fragile is in these one of the best on the marked.

MadsWare

Could this be the perfect game? Well... a post-apocalyptic world to explore. A mysterious storyline dealing with the aforementioned dystopia, as well as ghosts and demons. Fantastic art and production values highlighted by beautifully rendered cinematics and finally a main character who wields a flashlight controlled by the Wii remote. Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon has got all that in its package.

You play as a young boy named Seto as he searches for human survivors after most of the human race has died out. At the beginning of the game Seto's mentor (who he calls grandfather) tragically dies and he is left alone. For the most part, the game revolves around exploring the post-apocalyptic Japan.

While the story is intriguing, what really brings this game home are the beautiful graphics and amazing audio. Fragile Dreams is an experience that is not only enjoyable visually, but it is a treat for the ears. The emotional elements – like a haunting loneliness that pervades the world, the despair resonating in the voices of the characters – are clearly in place and Fragile Dreams' development team, tri-Crescendo, has found the right mix for a game that is truly a wonderful experience.

However, the haunting loneliness is also its downfall. The pace may be too slow for many gamers and it takes about an hour or so before the story really kicks in. For the first hour or two, you are just exploring and moving around a strange and freaky place. Whilst in its own right it is enjoyable, the fun starts to drain by the length of time it takes just to finish this small part of the game. The rest of the game starts to build up more quickly but it still isn't fast enough to suit many gamers.

The truly wonderful experience is ruined by the slow-pace of the story and gameplay. I afraid it only gets 3 stars. If the pace of the game was balanced out it may have gotten 4 or even 5 stars. The game is still absolutely brilliant and I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys a wonderful mystery. But for everyone else, stick to your Rune Factory Frontiers!

Pochama014

I can't remember any other game that literally made break down in tears during gameplay and not at the ending. such a wonderful journey and mesmerizing places. this game is so memorable i wish more people gave it a chance. games like this one, Zack & Wiki, Little King's Story etc. define the difference between "art" and "product" if you want a game that will make you meditate please pick this up

fabz

I love Fragile Dreams, i remember when i've finished the game, i was so sad^^ even now i have a little sentiment about this. I can not write all that i think, because i'm not English, so i hope that you understand me. The game is really beautiful, the sky's beautiful: we can see all the star like in Xenoblade: I like it a lot^^. The people's voices are very nicer in Japenese than in English voice. The magic is in the japanese language! Perhaps the game have a little problem with the battles but it isn't important if you prefer the fun that a game give you to or the gameplay. I can only advise to take this beautiful game.

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