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LP of the intro by raikenjenova ^^^
Lowdown
Story-driven, choice-based, distopian 2d rpg game with an emphasis on character development and fun, non-random, side-view, Final Fantasy VI style battles, made up of 5 or so chapters, currently in production. Chapter 1 came out in 2011, Chapter 2 came out in 2012, full version by 2015 or so.
Strong writing, clever system, interesting characters, and an engaging plot...this game is unreasonably good. It is probably the single cleverest thing I've played on rmn, and its ability to take itself seriously even while it's not taking itself seriously borders on the supernatural.
-kumada
overall I enjoyed the game because of the story. the dialogue is good, the characters are good. the setting seems cool so far.
-Link_2112
With just a bit of tweaking, Faenon should have a crazy, unchained game on his hands, and one that I would strongly recommend to anyone wanting to try something different for a change.
-ganonfrog
Story
Brad, a jock, trips one day (at a party, we can only assume), accidentally plunging himself into the hallucinatory world of The Cerebral Symphony where he meets a guy called Luke, who you might wonder is a human metaphor for repressed teenage angst.
Join the schizophrenic, multiple-personality-disorder afflicted Luke, whose destiny (and personalities) you can steer through his individual choices as he bumbles his way through his life as a renegade thief into a big war between the underground cyborg Mafia, the omnipresent, all-seeing Corporation and the corrupt, power-crazed Government.
On the way you will encounter Naomi the ADHD werewolf, Jean the insomniac minstrel, Joanna the telepath with anger management issues, Carys the delusional young stage actress, Simon the narkileptic doctor, Zak the homeostatically imbalanced fighter-pilot, and Jeremy the accident prone Gladiator. He will choose whether in the final estimation it is his more "upbeat" or his "darker" pesonality that will win control of his mind as they battle with his more balanced, "pensive" side.
Begun as the side-project of a bored and depressed fifteen-year old, The Cerebral Symphony has evolved into a claustrophobic, poorly layed-out, passionately-written 2d rpg with FFVI-based mechanics that may one day be finished and worthy of release.
Featuring the Fully Completed MULTIPLE PERSONALITY SYSTEM(TM), where Luke's in-game choices will affect dialogue and plot, alter the screen tint and interface colours and change his battle class and music. You only gain skills in the personality in which you fight! Your choices will affect the story!
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Faenon
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Faenon
2529
CloseAlrighty, turns out Ch2 isn't gonna be ready by Christmas, not even by a long shot. Going on holiday and rpgmaker's not coming. So I'm pushing it back to some indeterminate time i.e. no time soon. Thank you testers for your help with Ch1, I'll be incorporating your feedback and ironing out bugs in Ch1 when I resume work. Happy holidays!
Faenon
2529
Just to reassure my wonderful beta testers, and anyone else following this, that work is continuing, slowly but steadily, I've added some new screenshots previewing parts of Chapter 2, which I can now reveal is called 'Auditions'. There's also some new info on the 'characters' page about a couple of new characters if you haven't seen that yet.
Ch2 will definitely be done by the end of the year, and I hope beta will be out long before then, but -as I said- progress, while steady, is also slow as I'm currently in the middle of a Masters degree. What's more, I've been waiting for aaaaages for the 'The Here and Now of Yesterday' Manor Map Madness game by Liberty to be released, to which I contributed, as I'd like to use the resulting mansion maps as a blueprint for something in Chapter 2. That game was due to come out in November 2011. Still waiting...
Anyway, hope you like the new screens and tell me what you think of the mock-up facesets!
Ch2 will definitely be done by the end of the year, and I hope beta will be out long before then, but -as I said- progress, while steady, is also slow as I'm currently in the middle of a Masters degree. What's more, I've been waiting for aaaaages for the 'The Here and Now of Yesterday' Manor Map Madness game by Liberty to be released, to which I contributed, as I'd like to use the resulting mansion maps as a blueprint for something in Chapter 2. That game was due to come out in November 2011. Still waiting...
Anyway, hope you like the new screens and tell me what you think of the mock-up facesets!
author=Faenon
Glad you figured out a way to do it benos. Have you got any further yet? Made it to the Corporation or the GOBOT?
Yes, indeed. I'm outta that place. Just up to scene with detailing of the government types. I'm properly nearly finished the demo right?
raikenjenova
30
Excuse me :o
Can I post'em to youtube as a gameplay?
Sure you'll have more download counts with it :D
Can I post'em to youtube as a gameplay?
Sure you'll have more download counts with it :D
Faenon
2529
author=raikenjenova
Excuse me :o
Can I post'em to youtube as a gameplay?
Sure you'll have more download counts with it :D
Hi raikenjenova. Can you post *what* to youtube as gameplay?? Do you want to do a Let's Try or a Let's Play or something?
To be honest, if that's what you mean, thanks but I'd rather you wait until Chapter 2 is out. It's about 70% done and I hope to have a beta version out as soon as I can and then the whole thing by the end of the year. I'm aiming to release a chapter a year. You see, I started this game when I was 15, then abandoned it. I only came back to it last year, so most of Chapter 1 is very early stuff I made as a teenager and with any luck the game is going to get better from now on... But I work very slowly, because I only have time to work on it about one afetrnoon a week.
Also, there's already a Let's Try of Chapter 1, as you can see from the media page.
And I'm not really that bothered about download counts. I'm amazed that 200 people have wanted to play it really...
raikenjenova
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author=Faenonauthor=raikenjenovaHi raikenjenova. Can you post *what* to youtube as gameplay?? Do you want to do a Let's Try or a Let's Play or something?
Excuse me :o
Can I post'em to youtube as a gameplay?
Sure you'll have more download counts with it :D
To be honest, if that's what you mean, thanks but I'd rather you wait until Chapter 2 is out. It's about 70% done and I hope to have a beta version out as soon as I can and then the whole thing by the end of the year. I'm aiming to release a chapter a year. You see, I started this game when I was 15, then abandoned it. I only came back to it last year, so most of Chapter 1 is very early stuff I made as a teenager and with any luck the game is going to get better from now on... But I work very slowly, because I only have time to work on it about one afetrnoon a week.
Also, there's already a Let's Try of Chapter 1, as you can see from the media page.
And I'm not really that bothered about download counts. I'm amazed that 200 people have wanted to play it really...
lol you already saw my vids XD
maybe in the next chapter I will do "Raiken Plays" rather than "Let's Play" which is too mainstream :3
Hmm, for what I got, your 'chapter 1' is already awesome O.O I don't expected that you can make such as those ideas :O and those "war strategies" too O.O
Hmm, that makes me nervous, I will wait for your released chapter this December :3
Hope it will be more awesome game ever played XD~
Faenon
2529
Howdy all. Chapter Two is now out. Give it a whirl. Bug reports, feedback, general comments, encouragements, reviews, all welcome. Huge thanks to kumada for testing.
Mr.Nemo
1256
author=Faenon
What's more, I've been waiting for aaaaages for the 'The Here and Now of Yesterday' Manor Map Madness game by Liberty to be released, to which I contributed, as I'd like to use the resulting mansion maps as a blueprint for something in Chapter 2.
blueprints and flat out putting the maps in your own game with a few events switched out are two different things. I tell you now because it's christmas and I'm not going all out accusing you of plagiarism; maybe you did ask every single participant permission to use their maps, what do I know
EDIT: and gave them credit for it accordingly
if not, I would probably take the game down asap
Faenon
2529
Mr.Nemo, I PM'd every single one of the other participants and asked them if I could use their maps. They all said yes. NONE of their event coding has been used, except some screen titnts and flashes. The participants of 'MaMaMa 2011' are credited in the README file, but I guess I should extend that to full sceennames in the next update, so thanks for the reminder to do that :)
Mr.Nemo
1256
alright cool
i guess it makes sense if graphics aren't your strong suite and you wish to put more effort into other areas of the game. then again, maybe you want to develop your own skills in that particular area. or perhaps that wouldve delayed the release further
i guess it makes sense if graphics aren't your strong suite and you wish to put more effort into other areas of the game. then again, maybe you want to develop your own skills in that particular area. or perhaps that wouldve delayed the release further
Faenon
2529
Some people have reported a couple of gamebreaking bugs that have surfaced since the last test. I've now removed these and updated the download accordingly.
Faenon
2529
So, has anyone played Chapter 2 yet other than kumada? Link2112, chana, raikenjenova, benos? Anyone got any thoughts? I'm continuously working on it, along with starting Chapter 3 now.
Also, I added some facesets to the 'Characters' page.
Also, I added some facesets to the 'Characters' page.
sorry, not yet. I'm more likely to play if you keep PM'ing me about it. it might seem like "bugging" but for me its not xD I just forget after a few hours
raikenjenova
30
Boo!
I think I will make some youtube recording for this game again, this game seems updated :3
I will give credits to you too :3
Remember me? :P
Sorry about the delay for it, because of some reason that I won't play any RPG Maker games anymore. But seems like I found some awesome games out there, and decided to play them all again. And sure, this will be the first one after a semester quitting RPG Maker games.
Thanks before.
I think I will make some youtube recording for this game again, this game seems updated :3
I will give credits to you too :3
Remember me? :P
Sorry about the delay for it, because of some reason that I won't play any RPG Maker games anymore. But seems like I found some awesome games out there, and decided to play them all again. And sure, this will be the first one after a semester quitting RPG Maker games.
Thanks before.
Faenon
2529
Hi raikenjenova. Yes, I do remember you, that's why I've been bugging you over the internet to make some more youtube vids of TCS! Glad you've decided to come out of your temporary madness and play rpgmaker games again. Looking forward to seeing you play through Chapter 2 :) Thanks after.
raikenjenova
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author=Faenon
Hi raikenjenova. Yes, I do remember you, that's why I've been bugging you over the internet to make some more youtube vids of TCS! Glad you've decided to come out of your temporary madness and play rpgmaker games again. Looking forward to seeing you play through Chapter 2 :) Thanks after.
Alright.
I just have to figuring out these days about some "buggy black screen" when I was making recording with fraps. It just record my sound with a black screen D: It might take awhile to figuring it out till now, but I will keep inform you whenever it's done. :) Sorry about that T_T
Edited,
http://youtu.be/BEvmtgvMqQY
:P
