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Status: Completed!
My newest game! An all original story, with twists.

This contains the first 3 chapters of the Game.

Genre:

Action, dark fantasy, Drama

Setting

-This game takes place in Feudal and in the Sengoku period of Japan. The "feudal" period of Japanese history, dominated by the powerful regional families (daimyō) and the military rule of warlords (shōgun), stretched from 1185 to 1868.

The Edo period, a Period of war, politics and conflict between European and Asian Religion.

-The Sengoku period or 'Warring States period' in Japanese history was a time of social upheaval, political intrigue, and nearly constant military conflict that lasted roughly from the middle of the 15th century to the beginning of the 17th century. The Sengoku period in Japan would eventually lead to the unification of political power under the Tokugawa shogunate. Christians and firearms first arrived during this period to Japan.

History

During the Edo period, also called the Tokugawa period, the administration of the country was shared by over two hundred daimyō in a federation governed by the Tokugawa shogunate. The Tokugawa clan, leader of the victorious eastern army in the Battle of Sekigahara, was the most powerful of them and for fifteen generations monopolized the title of Sei-i Taishōgun (often shortened to shōgun). With their headquarters at Edo (present-day Tōkyō), the Tokugawa commanded the allegiance of the other daimyō, who in turn ruled their domains with a rather high degree of autonomy.

The Tokugawa shogunate carried out a number of significant policies. They placed the samurai class above the commoners: the agriculturists, artisans, and merchants. They enacted sumptuary laws limiting hair style, dress, and accessories. They organized commoners into groups of five and held all responsible for the acts of each individual. To prevent daimyō from rebelling, the shōguns required them to maintain lavish residences in Edo and live at these residences on a rotating schedule; carry out expensive processions to and from their domains; contribute to the upkeep of shrines, temples, and roads; and seek permission before repairing their castles.

Genesis:

The "Christian problem" was, in effect, a problem of controlling both the Christian daimyo in Kyūshū and their trade with the Europeans. By 1612, the shogun's retainers and residents of Tokugawa lands had been ordered to forswear Christianity. More restrictions came in 1616 (the restriction of foreign trade to Nagasaki and Hirado, an island northwest of Kyūshū), 1622 (the execution of 120 missionaries and converts), 1624 (the expulsion of the Spanish), and 1629 (the execution of thousands of Christians). Finally, the Closed Country Edict of 1635 prohibited any Japanese from traveling outside Japan or, if someone left, from ever returning.

The christian problem reached its highlight under Ieyasu's successors Tokugawa Hidetada and Tokugawa Iemitsu, particularly after the predominantly Christian population of Kyūshū had risen in the Shimabara Rebellion against the shogunate in 1637. The uprising was crushed brutally; more than 40,000 Christians were killed. Authorities of persecution were set up, with the goal of a nationwide persecution and extermination of the Christians. Anyone who was suspected of being a Christian had to abandon Christianity publicly and dishonor Christian symbols, which were called 'fumie', , as well as register in the Buddhist register of faith of Buddhist temples and visit those regularly. Those who refused to abandon their Christian faith were executed, often through public crucifixion or incineration. :)

Shimabara Rebellion:

It is an uprising in southwestern Japan in 1637–1638 during the Edo period. It largely involved peasants, most of them Catholic Christians. The shogun vs Samurai Christians and peasants converted to christianity.


Plot

In the Year 1665, You play as Jubei Kibagami, a hitman at a local city of Gion, a district of Kyoto. Your origins are unkown, but it is known that Jubei is a very skilled swordsman, being a student of Sasaki Kojiro, the greatest samurai. You will live through several decades of Jubei's life. Some say Jubei comes from a town that was known as Ichihara, a town that a powerful dragon destroyed, Jubei even lost his family during the attack... but in the end only Jubei knows the truth, since it is said that only he survived, this event came to be known as the massacre of Gion.

It is said that Jubei is searching for Kojiro, his master, since he was the only man to ever slay a Dragon and a possible survivor at the massacre of Gion, only Kojiro knows how to kill a dragon!

Play as Jubei in his search for Vengeance!

Places:

Yomi: The Japanese Hell.

Ichihara: Home village of Kojiro and Jubei.

Characters:

-Amakusa Shiro: Leader of the Christian rebellion in Japan, people call him the "heaven's messenger." Miraculous powers were attributed to him.

-Francisco Xavier: Roman Catholic sent by the pope to Japan to convert Japan into a "Christian country" for "Salvation" porpuses.

- Kojiro: Granson of the famous samurai Sasaki Kojiro, that was slain by Miyamoto Musashi. Kojiro worked for the shogunate and is now a teacher in Ichihara. He is famous for slaying a Dragon, it is said he is the only one in the world to have accomplished such a feat.

- Haruka: Kojiro's and Jubei's younger sister. Kojiro is like a father to Sakura.

- Ittosai: Village chief in Ichihara, he taught Kojiro the way of the sword, he is one of the daimyō ruling families.

- Amaterasu: Goddess of the sun and universe.

- Susanoo: God of the sea and storm, ruler of Yomi.

- Jubei: Brother to Kojiro and Sakura, was a student under Kojiro... now a famous hitman at Gion.

-Seiryu: Famous dragon, has control over most natural elements.

-Go-Yōzei: Emperor of Japan.

-Oda Nobunaga: Daimyo from the Oda Clan, initiator of unification of Japan, interested in European culture and one of the first to wear European clothes. He also became the patron of the Jesuit missionaries in Japan and supported the establishment of the first Christian church in Kyoto in 1576.

-Toyotomi Hideyoshi: Worked for Nobunaga as a general and later a persecutor of christians.

-Tokugawa Ieyasu: Tokugawa Ieyasu received the title of shogun from Emperor Go-Yōzei.

-Shimazu Takahisa:Daimyo to receive Francisco and let him spread Christianity in his domain.


Download the Demon:

http://www.mediafire.com/?qiya14oahplucly

Link the the second Part:

http://rpgmaker.net/games/4378/

More info at: downloadjunkie.weebly.com/japan-jubeis-vengeance.html

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This week and the next two weeks I will be working on:
-Improving the village.
-Making quest/helping villagers
-Expanding the story for the sengoku period and the Edo period.
-Building more maps.

After that I will have another demo.
I worked on the game extensively and I will have a demo soon. :)

I want the demo to stop in an interesting part so that you will wait for the next release, which will probably be a complete version.
I will have a demon in the following days.

Jubei's Training under Kojiro, has come to and abrupt end...
Marrend
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author=titogod
I will have a demon in the following days.

Jubei's Training under Kojiro, has come to and abrupt end...


Don't tell me that there's been some accident, and this game's been wiped! Or is this a rather flavorful way of saying this will be complete soon?
LOL, Yes this is a flavorful way of saying a beta version is almost here. :)
I am testing all of the game, there were more bugs than anticipated :P. I have found about 10 some not important some were.

:)
I will try to post the game by tonight. I just have to test the last part and my girlfriend is finishing one artwork for the demo.
Jubei Vengeance new demo is out!
*update*
I took down the download because there is a bug on the last part, I just fixed it and I am uploading now. Game is 25 mb smaller since it does not use RTP.

*update*

I fixed the game and the upload is active! Enjoy!

This are the first 3 Chapters of the Game.
This isn't actually completed, though, right?

Anyway, giving the new demo a playtest.
Feedback:

-Dialog still rough in spots, and the waits at the end of every sentence are still pretty painful.

-Weather effects are definitely nice, but for some reason are lagging my computer. I have a nice new desktop with a decent graphics card, so this is puzzling.

-On the approach to the burning cross, there is a bones and a piece of rock with an open space between them. The open space is, for some reason, not scripted as walkable. If you don't want the player to go there, put something in the way.

-Random graphical glitch during the firey cross cutscene. There's a thin bar of distorted pixels that rolls across the screen. Not sure where it's coming from.

-BUG: After the conclusion of the firey cross cutscene, when the game prompted me to save, it immediately crashed before I could. All it told me was that the RGSS2 player had stopped working.
Hello, Yes I saw that the unwakable space, I do not know what is wrong with that.

This game has 3 full Chapters, and I will probably continue on rpg maker vx ace, or I will make 1 -3 mor chapters on this and then I will move to vx ace.

About that bug, it seems your pc was lagging and the game crashed. Try Again and let me know, it should work, I tried it on my pc
Tried it a second time. No lag. Not sure what the deal was, but it was obviously my comp acting up somehow. Computer started chugging again towards the end of the cutscene, but I made it through to saving without a crash.
-Why is there a random (and long!) block pushing puzzle down an empty corridor at the start of the Francisco chapter?

-Oh, hey. Pulled up task manager. Game.exe is using 50 CPU. Gonna double check this against the cpu usage of some other games, see if it's aberrant.

Yeah. With other games (tested Set Discrepancy and Colonist) it's about 0-25. As far as system specs go, this is a newly built desktop that runs Amnesia without batting an eye.

I had to quit again because the game was chugging too hard to play. Is anyone else encountering this problem?
Hello, the puzzle is to remove possible intruders.

when you start the game, press F1 and check the options, uncheck the screen flickering if its checked. it might help.
Marrend
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Checking this out is among my to-game list since I saw the "Completed" status update! However, as much as I would like to see how well this runs on my system as a foil to kumada's experience (Well, that is our hope, is it not?), the timing of everything is just plain bad.
author=titogod
Hello, the puzzle is to remove possible intruders.

Which makes a lot of sense from a storytelling perspective, but is counterproductive game design. If, in the plot, it makes sense to have a security mechanism, make it engaging, or make it part of a cut scene. Simple block pushing just pads out the intro.

Also, in the first scene on the boat, the space that Xavier starts on becomes immediately nonpassable after he leaves it.

The flicker box was unchecked, so I'm not sure what the issue is, but I'll keep playing and double check which processes are running when it happens.

edit: it seems to happen reliably after a few minutes of play. Not sure why, but I've had a one for one ratio of me playing and it happening.
New problems:

Disregard. Seiryu was a meant to lose fight.

edit: Sometimes Seiryu will fly to unreachable places in the rock walls.

Also, there is a raven stuck in the walls of the dojo.

And leaving the dojo causes you to appear inside one of the stone lanterns.
Hello Kumada, check the flicker box and play to see what happens.

Marrend will you play the game?
-Village is huge, and features a minigame in which you listlessly spam the action key on a sequence of trees. I think it's great if resource harvesting is part of the game, but this minigame feels really pointless. Also, on some of the trees, axe swings will use hp. On some of them, they won't.

-Run button is disabled in the village? Why? The village is ridiculously huge.

-There's no indication of where you're supposed to go in the village, and wandering around takes up tons of time. Any chance you could give me (and future players) a pointer?

edit: I've been playing without the flicker box checked, and things seem to be fine as long as there's no weather.
You have to go to the dojo, and home, when you are home somebody will tell you where to go, talk to people at home or at the dojo.

:)