Pandoras Tower Intro (2012, Ganbarion/XSeed/Nintendo)

Pandora's Tower, known in Japan as Tower of Pandora: Until I Return to Your Side (Japanese: パンドラの塔 君のもとへ帰るまで Hepburn: Pandora no Tō: Kimi no Moto e Kaeru Made), is an action role-playing video game developed by Ganbarion for the Wii home console. It was published by Nintendo in Japan, Europe, and Australia, and by Xseed Games in North America. It was released in Japan on May 26, 2011, in Australia on April 12, 2012, in Europe on April 13, 2012, and in North America on April 16, 2013, after Operation Rainfall. In the January 2015 Nintendo Direct, it was announced that Pandora's Tower and other Wii games will be released for download through the Wii U's Nintendo eShop. It was released in Japan on March 4, 2015, Europe on April 16, 2015, Australia and New Zealand on April 17, 2015, and North America on August 13, 2015. Although Xseed Games originally published the Wii disc, the North American digital re-release was handled Re-Published by Nintendo. Pandora's Tower focuses on Aeron's travels into thirteen towers to break a curse on Elena that is transforming her into a beast, using his magical sword and chain. A certain set of these monsters are referred to as beasts, as their flesh can be used to temporarily reverse the effects of the curse. The primary objective of the game is to acquire the "Master Flesh" from each tower's "master beast", as this is the only way to break the curse. Players only have a certain amount of time in the towers before Elena's curse worsens (displayed as a meter on the player's screen), this will force the player to exit the current tower in order to give Elena flesh; thus it is important for the player to take shortcuts in order to progress through each tower. When the player is not exploring the towers, they may choose to increase Aeron's relationship with Elena, which is pivotal to the game's multiple endings - the stronger the bond, the better the ending will be. The player may talk to her and give her gifts, as well as ask her to translate texts found in the towers. While looking for flesh, the player should take notice of the curse condition, which worsens each second spent in the towers and will start to lower the affinity of the couple after a certain period of time. Pandora's Tower is set on the Imperia, the former home of ten kingdoms until the king of Elyria stripped the Vestra people of their lands, turning them into a nomadic people. The land, once unified after the War of Unification, is torn apart by a new conflict between Elyria and three other kingdoms who seek independence from its rule. During Elyria's Harvest Festival, a woman named Elena is chosen to sing: she is suddenly struck by a curse that forces her to flee the Elyrian army with her lover Aeron, a former soldier from an enemy kingdom. Under the guidance of an old Vestra tribeswoman called Mavda, they head for the Thirteen Towers, a desolate fortress located above a great chasm known as the Scar. Mavda reveals that the only way to lift the curse from Elena and prevent her transformation into a monster is to feed her the flesh of "Masters", powerful beings living inside the Towers. Given a weapon called the Oraclos Chain, Aeron explores the Towers and gradually kills each of its Masters, returning to give their flesh to Elena. Each time she eats it, she receives visions detailing the events behind the Towers' creations.

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