After 22 years, the remastered version of a cult classic Game Boy Advance JRPG just appeared on Steam with a bunch of user-friendly updates
N💫ow's your chance to play Riviera: The Promised Land

Japanese developer Sting brought its 2002 role-playing game Riviera: The Promised Land in a new remaster st👍ocked with useful updates.
The Promised Land remaster first released in Japan this February, and then on and the💛 store with Japanese localization earlier this summer. This new Steam port is t💎he first to offer an English interface with English audio and subtitles.
Riviera: The Promised Land is a battle between angels, demons, and more angels.꧒ In it, you guide the Gr♌im Angel Ein and his cat through turn-based battles and a crowd of dateable female protagonists.
"If you don't get along with JRPG girls, then you shoul🍌d know you spend a lot of time interacting with the cast [in this game]," warns one Steam review. But players seem to so far be thrilled with The Promised Land's remaster, which includes several improvements to functionality, including auto-save, event skips, and adjustable difficulty and gameplay speed.
ꦺ"The ease of play has been improved!" the game's Steam description promises. "It's full of elements that will satisfy everyone from first-time players to experienced players!"
Players so far seem to agree.
"I'm amazed how really well made this port is," says one recent revieꦆw. "The amount of [quality-of-life] improvement🐽s from the GBA version are insane."
Sign up to the GamesRadar+ Newsletter
Weekly digests, tales from the communitieꦬs you love, and mo💦re
"I am pleasantly surprised by how many additions have been made," says another. "The battle UI shows more pertinent information🌜 at all times and being able to speed up battles is a welco🦂me addition."
Riviera: The Promised Land will be listed at a 20 percent discount on Steam until July 30. It may be a 22-year-old game, but now is the perfect time to play it.
Experience JRPG history — after 20 years, one of the longest-running JRPG stories is "about 80-90% complete" and finally coming to an end.

Ashley is a Senior Writer at GamesRadar+. She's been a staff writer at Kotaku and Inverse, too, and she's written freelance pieces about horror and women in games for sites li💛ke Rolling Stone, Vulture, IGN, and💃 Polygon. When she's not covering gaming news, she's usually working on expanding her doll collection while watching Saw movies one through 11.