GRINSIA (3DS)

Looks pretty interesting, actually. I'd give it a go as long as it doesn't cost too much. That said, I'm not at all surprised by a game like this being on 3DS. If there were a current console that RM games could be ported to and not look/feel completely out of place, the 3DS would be it.

The only thing that puts me off is the horribly generic music.
So lifeless, dull and bland... I hate when games that attempt to feel JRPG do this
It's AWFUL

heeey, one of my original Characters is named "Milka", too! D:
hmph, my Milka is cuter tho...

Milka is also the name of a chocolate bar, which reminds me that I'm hungry and I'm not gonna go offtopic cyu

@ Liberty & Seraph

Heh, it's okay.. my Milka is actually only -pronounced- Milka, but spelled Miruka. So.. meh. : p And, it's a cow-girl, not a human girl.

Man, this GUI is so, SO clumsy
The system sounds are rather cool, but badly used so it becomes annoying and repetitive
Graphics are nice and pretty by themselves, but mapping is godawful and monster placement is even worse
and those backdrops
Ugh

About the soundtrack, yeah, it isn`t THAT awful, it`s just not so good.

Nah, so much wasted potential, this could be a really cool game

author=RyaReisender
Do you really think the music is bad?
I actually think the music is one of the strong points in Kemco's games and it is actually very catchy.

Not saying it's bad. Everything looks and sounds alright to me. Everything is just really, really generic and uninteresting. It's like they mixed every SNES RPG into one (with slightly worse mapping). I'm sure it was some work putting those games together, but couldn't they have gone for something that at least tries to do something new?

author=McBick
Well I still think its better than most rpg maker games I've seen made that have been completed.

That's not really a big feat if you think about that most RPG Maker games are made by one person and those people never made a game before in their life.

I don't really want to sound too negative, but I just get annoyed by people that remake old games without any kinds of vision themselves except getting money.

It's true that those games are not as good as SNES quality and they aren't doing anything new (well they do somehow, by adding for example an auto battle feature and a combo system, but I know what you mean), but for me they are still better than even the $15-25 commercial RPG Maker games (e.g. Aldorlea stuff), so at least for iPad/iPhone where you can get them for as little as $3 during a sale, they were well worth it.

I also don't think that JRPGs should necessarily try something new. I can understand for handhelds (so criticism here is valid), but for someone who wants to play on a TV screen or PC monitor, it's basically that these days there are hardly any good traditional JRPGs. So even if a super generic JRPG is released for PC or console the chance is pretty high that I'll like it without it requiring to do something new, simply because it's so rare these days.
Some games from my past, especially Genesis/SNES era, I simply want to be copied exactly and just new dungeons and story put on them.

Plus, I'm not very fond of overcomplicating games.

And in the end if you have the choice between buying yet another Final Fantasy remake or a game that's basically Final Fantasy with slightly lower quality but offers new dungeons and a new story, then I'd rather choose the latter.