Hero-Man: Valiant Xylophone Ace

Hero-Man is going on an adventure to help as many people as possible in Hero-Land! Join Hero-Man from his humble beginnings in Hero-Town to many fantastic and exotic places such as Ninja Desert and Funky Town. Talk to the residents of Hero-Land and try to help anyone who'll accept your assistance! Examine everything, sometimes secrets and goodies are hidden where you least expect them.

Not everyone in Hero-Land is friendly or in need of assistance, and Hero-Man may end up in combat situations. However, he is mostly non-violent, so you must try to find intelligent ways to use the skills he's learned to win the battle. This makes combat far from a number grind and more like a puzzle. Don't worry - hopefully you'll have made friends along the way who can help. Even if you are defeated, you're always able to try again without losing any significant progress.

Hero-Man started as a series of parodies made with various RPG Makers over the past ten years. From the beginning the series has been designed to include as many references and outright parodies of anything and everything the writer could think of or was suggested. Mostly containing video game references or tropes, this most recent (and first publicly released) version aims to poke fun at as many different subjects as possible across many media. At most it could be given a T rating, but is mostly meant to be family-friendly. Think PG movies or TV shows.

I welcome suggestions or requests for parodies or other inclusions to the game. I'm building on one of the smallest pre-made world maps included in RPG Maker VX Ace, so overall space is limited, but there'll still be plenty of room to include hundreds or even thousands of references. I'm also sticking to mostly RTP resources aside from music. This is so that I may focus on the writing and gameplay rather than fretting over creating or finding decent artwork to use.

As of February 2014, the game is in an early but playable "Alpha" stage. I plan to include a definitive ending to the game, and when it is included the game will have reached a "Beta" version. From there I will continue to flesh out the world and add minor additions to content until it can be considered complete. It is planned so that even if you find the ending (it won't be explicitly shown to the player how to reach it), you can come back to the game to try any new content added since you last ended the game.

Please visit RPG Maker VX Ace to download Ace's RTP if you do not already have it. It is required to play HMVXA.