ME, THE TWISTED AND THE JOURNEY

Hello everybody :)

I'm Krolan and I am a gamer. I play alot whenever I have time to spare. My Name originates from 2 Characters/Avatars I created about 10 years ago, one called Kraneloran (the Balance) with the other being his counterpart Krolan (the Chaos).
Their circumstances to one another gave me the nickname (to my nickname) "the Twisted"

I'd decribe myself as slightly crazy but passionate.

Only a couple months ago I stumbled upon rpgmaker.net and was a little disappointed to find that it hasn't really got the crowd one would expect with So-Much-Content. On the other hand there are probably many ghosts (or guests) roaming around, downloading and playing games without ever appearing on either game sections or the forums.

Nontheless, I stuck around and played some games, left my notes but didn't want to try to contribute anything being new and all. I think that now, after playing a rather neat amount of different games of different genres, from popular to unknown ones (love the "send me in, coach" function), old and recent.

And that is why I want to revive a review Series I once did on another platform, which I'd call "The RMN Journey", where I give my personal experience from before downloading the game, to after finishing the game. I also like to have different peoples opinions which lead to a misunderstanding yesterday, where I was mistaken for a developer trying to promote his game ^^'

The Order in which reviews would appear would be the order in which I play a game that I find I have enough to say about to form a review worth my (and hopefully anothers) time, which can be based on either the game being incredebly awesome or horrendously bad or just plain interesting and somewhere in between. It comes down to personal preference.

Since the forums are strongly seperated from game pages (rather than intertwined like where I did that series before), I won't be able to link to a pastebin to show my general rating table and such. I also like to seperate my reviews into my own "hive journey" category, which lead to me also posting those into pastebins which were linked through another pastebin entry which was linked through my signature.

I guess here I won't have that option, so I decided to present here my general information.


General Rating Table

*The formula was used to present a short and tidy summary of rating on each category on the game-topic in the forums, presented with a link to the full review in pastebin*

The formula goes
(+++) Perfect or almost Perfect
(++) Very Good
(+) Good
(0) Neither Good Nor Bad
(-) Bad
(--) Very Bad
(---) Horrendous

(*Here is the additional information I gave for Warcraft III Custom Campaigns and Single-Player maps, just to give you an idea of how I do stuff*)

Different kinds of maps spawn a different number of ratings. While Campaigns are usually rated and reviewed for 5 basic elements (Gameplay, Story, Music/Sounds, Graphics/Terrain and Bugs) others tend to have more ratings based on relevance.

If riddles and discovering is not part of a RPG-Map or if there is no story, RPG-Maps usually have those, it'll get a (0) rating, since where there's no attempt there can't be a rating.

Melee Maps for example won't even get a (0) rating on Storyline, because there is none to expect.

Pending Maps will be most likely re-rated but not re-reviewed when changes occur as my reviews are more of a journal of my experience on Hive than anything else, allthough I will provide the information that the map improved if it happens to be that way.

Full Reviews *Here would usually be a link to the list of reviews I made*

*this entry would usually be a different color, here yellow*
The Final Verdict is an overall experience rating. Therefore don't be surprised if you find a Map where more work was put into it with a worse rating than a simple map. For this Verdict the enjoyability of the map is the most important aspect.

*this entry would usually be a different color, here green*
Also please don't confuse a Rating of 3/5 in comparison to 4/5 meaning that the first is like saying "This is Sh!t compared to the other". That is not the case. In general the Final Verdict is also a personal Opinion and you are free to have your own.

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I review as a gamer not as some sort of god-like critique creature, therefor I try to present a review that reflects the negatives and positives considering the experience that is to be expected rather than a technical summary of things that theoretically could be included or taken out.




I was pondering about the Points with which to rate the games on RMN and this is what I came up with

Gameplay - (0)
Story - (0)
Characters (+NPC) - (0)
Graphics - (0)
Music/Sound - (0)
Discovery (Secrets) - (0)
(Side-)Quests - (0)
Layout - (0)
Skills/Skillsystem - (0)
Items/Itemsystem - (0)
Bugs (Layout/Skill/Item Bugs excluded since mentioned in respective category) - (0)




Anyway :) A rather long read, I guess nobody's gonna torture him- or herself with this. Anyway at least it's out there now.


Greetings,
Krolan, the Twisted