Good/underrated RPG Maker games
Jan 17, 2016 19:28:43 GMT -5
Post by Woody Alien on Jan 17, 2016 19:28:43 GMT -5
RPG Maker games are usually cheap affairs put together by random people in their spare time with few redeeming values, but sometimes interesting and/or good titles can be found in this niche. So let's list some of them in this thread!
For starters I'm going to list three of them that I found on Steam:
Eternal Senia
A guy from Taiwan inspired by his love for Ragnarok Online and Catholicism (don't ask) made this anime-styled RPG that controls like the old Ys games. The story is about a girl who is the adoptive sister of a demon huntress that one day goes missing, and she goes looking for her in a demonic tower whose stories change according to their inhabitants.
The story is simple but nice and sad (especially the multiple endings), there are an optional quest system and a simple, easy crafting system that is only half-mandatory, the religious references are typical of anime in that are half meaningful and half "just for the sake of it". Outside of the shitty introductory dungeon the graphics and cutscenes are quite nice and overall the game is fun to play and, being fairly short, doesn't overstay its welcome.
The Book of Legends
Aldorlea Games usually publishes games made in RPG Maker, the quality varies but this one is one of the best. Reminiscent of Star Ocean and Suikoden (especially for the vaguely Chinese setting), the plot is the same stuff of revived demons trying to enslave the world, but the main character is an arrogant, snarky asshole and similarly there are a lot of witty dialogues between the many characters (there's a lot of them including talking animals!). While the graphics are stock, the music is pretty good, the game world is expansive with lots of stuff to see and do, and the battles are challenging, interesting and fun (one example: the demons are stronger against the characters that suffer from the vices they embody... so the protagonist isn't immune at all) even in "Casual Mode" that isn't too much casual at all. The price is a bit high, though.
Greyfox
Don't be fooled by the description that name-drops Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy III, this isn't a JRPG at all, it's not even a RPG, it's a game that tells an interactive story. The story is about a girl that finds herself in a town populated only by old people and is magically forced to live in the shoes of some of them for a while. This is the only "magical" part of the story at all, the rest is an interesting change of perspective in the lives of old folks, where you can make amends with others or treat them as an asshole would, and not everything is so black or white as it seems... It reminded me a bit of "Always Sometimes Monsters" even if with much lower production values of course - but then again it costs about 1$.
For starters I'm going to list three of them that I found on Steam:
Eternal Senia
A guy from Taiwan inspired by his love for Ragnarok Online and Catholicism (don't ask) made this anime-styled RPG that controls like the old Ys games. The story is about a girl who is the adoptive sister of a demon huntress that one day goes missing, and she goes looking for her in a demonic tower whose stories change according to their inhabitants.
The story is simple but nice and sad (especially the multiple endings), there are an optional quest system and a simple, easy crafting system that is only half-mandatory, the religious references are typical of anime in that are half meaningful and half "just for the sake of it". Outside of the shitty introductory dungeon the graphics and cutscenes are quite nice and overall the game is fun to play and, being fairly short, doesn't overstay its welcome.
The Book of Legends
Aldorlea Games usually publishes games made in RPG Maker, the quality varies but this one is one of the best. Reminiscent of Star Ocean and Suikoden (especially for the vaguely Chinese setting), the plot is the same stuff of revived demons trying to enslave the world, but the main character is an arrogant, snarky asshole and similarly there are a lot of witty dialogues between the many characters (there's a lot of them including talking animals!). While the graphics are stock, the music is pretty good, the game world is expansive with lots of stuff to see and do, and the battles are challenging, interesting and fun (one example: the demons are stronger against the characters that suffer from the vices they embody... so the protagonist isn't immune at all) even in "Casual Mode" that isn't too much casual at all. The price is a bit high, though.
Greyfox
Don't be fooled by the description that name-drops Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy III, this isn't a JRPG at all, it's not even a RPG, it's a game that tells an interactive story. The story is about a girl that finds herself in a town populated only by old people and is magically forced to live in the shoes of some of them for a while. This is the only "magical" part of the story at all, the rest is an interesting change of perspective in the lives of old folks, where you can make amends with others or treat them as an asshole would, and not everything is so black or white as it seems... It reminded me a bit of "Always Sometimes Monsters" even if with much lower production values of course - but then again it costs about 1$.