Disenchantment Heart

Disenchantment Heart, also known as Disenchantment: Ge Xin or Disenchantment 3, is a pixel-art, turn-based role-playing game set on an eastern continent after the events of Disenchantment: Nirvana. Its story follows six characters, including a poor girl who earns her living burying the dead and telling ghost stories, a sword-wielding young woman seeking the truth about her family’s misfortunes, and a cat demon tasked with guarding a sacred mark. The story takes about 25 hours.

The characters

The party includes:

• Su Luan, the Whisperer: a poor young woman who goes from street to street burying the dead. She loves telling ghost stories and is nicknamed “Whispers into the Grave.”
• Gu Shou, the Slayer: a handsome man from a wealthy family, sent as a child to learn combat at a prince’s residence. He becomes a commander in the patrol camp at 18 and is nicknamed “War-Conquering General.”
• Wan Ying, the Swordmaster: a kind, gentle young woman skilled with two swords. After upheaval in her family, she sets out in search of the truth. Her nickname is “Gentle Twin Swords.”
• Xiao Miao, the Catfolk: a cat demon raised and trained by a master in the Burial Mound. Formerly a Shinto guardian, she is later appointed guardian of the sacred mark. Her nickname is “Spirit Cat Enchantress.”
• Zi Ying, the Spirit Warrior: raised from childhood by a former Pan King and taught the Ye Ling Style of swordsmanship. She serves the heir to the Pan throne for life and is nicknamed “Bound Rose.”
• Luo Ying, the Demon Hunter: a girl who emerged from the Asura battlefield. Innocent at heart but unreasonable and combative by nature, she enjoys tormenting and humiliating non-human creatures. Her nickname is “Asura Unbound.”

Chapters

The story is told across nine chapters:

• The Phoenix Arrives
• The Phoenix Sings Clearly
• A Ghostly Confidant
• Flute beneath the Moon
• Many Hands, Lewd Music
• Listening behind the Curtain
• The White Crane Dances
• A Tune of Flutes and Pipes
• A Chorus of Birds

Combat and progression

Combat uses an ATB turn-based system, with a brisk pace that also allows time to consider tactics. You can change the battle difficulty at any time, and the game can be completed through skill without repeatedly grinding. The game uses equipment durability and item pouches, and wild encounters follow a design in which defeated field monsters do not respawn.

Before each chapter’s boss fight, you can pray at a statue to summon monsters for unlimited grinding and buy equipment. Experience is also awarded when loading a save, based on whether you exceeded a set walking-distance threshold during the previous session. Each large map contains a well where you can donate coins for attribute points; once you donate enough, the whole party gains one attribute point, and each well can grant this increase once. The required donation is lower in early areas and higher later on. In Chapter 6, you can enter the secret room beneath the main hall of the prince’s residence after the chapter’s story begins.

The female protagonist also tells you unusual stories. The game’s DLC contains scenes of concealed nudity.