I got a sniff of this game somewhere about May/April this year. As some of you know, LaTale Ely is a 2D fantasy game with cute graphic and just cute in general. I've always been weak to cute things and I happend to have a big love for side-scrolling 2D games. So when I saw LaTale Ely I happy. "This is just what i've searched for!" was my first tought. However, some of my happyness died out when I got to know that no english version was released and all the other versions had IP blocks. But just a while later after my discovery I saw an articel that said that LaTale Ely was going to be translated to english and released Q3. Glorious day!

I managed to get into the Closed beta(And I thought it was North America only!) that started somewhere in July and got to see the game for the first time. I came to the login screen and got to hear the cute intro music. I login and comes to the character screen. After alot of thinking I came up with a name and a good look. Then came the thing I had waited so long for. Playing time!

Before i could go and enjoy myself in the game I "had" to watch/read the Intro. (You can skip it if you want to.)

It's about the Girl Iris, who is a Derr from Derr Clan. Or should we, Part Derr. Anyway, she and her 3 friends tried to slay a very powerful demon who wants nothing but bad things in this world. However, Iris fails. And after that fight, no one saw or heard anything from her. The only thing that is left from her is the Stone of Iris.

After the intro I found myself in only underwear in a colorfull training area. Green, green and a little bit more green. Oh and a bit blue too. Grass, bushes, trees and more grass. I followed everythig to make sure I got everything right

The controls are pretty easy, you walk by pressing right or left and you'll dash if you press one of them two times. You'll fight with ot without your weapond on Z or X. Z will give you a weak but fast attack and X will give you a strong but slow attack. Neat. You'll pick up items on V and Jump on C. All these can be changed to a different button.

LaTale Ely came out September 18. So the game is still pretty new and hasn't got all it features. It's getting better and better but i still find things that I can get a bit annoyed at.