RELEASE SOMETHING! DAY VIII: JOURNEY OF THE CURSED KING [DISCUSSION]

Release Something IX: You Don't Need a Reason to Help People.

RSIXYDNARTHP for short.

Feld Chronology is looking great so far. I'm not too far into it, but I can already see a difference between this and the last. It's cleaner, more refined, more balanced, and has better dialogue. Cheers, my friend.

I'm not too sure what expression that is supposed to be, but yeah, I'm currently playing Chronology too. My only complaint so far would be some pieces of the soundtrack, but other than that I'm not very far into the game either, to form a solid opinion. I'm in the train going somewhere atm.

How long is the demo approximately?

It's amazing how WDRPG received more downloads in the first hour than HT-EJ for 2 days.

O_o

Clyve: Then don't make RPG Cliche Quest 315246643 because I've played it 6246426 times before. I haven't even looked at your gamepage because the title puts me off.

Fair enough, Craze. The title probably is very off-putting. I should probably rename it because while the story is cliché, the game itself is actually carefully constructed and fun (at least based on the feedback I'm getting). It's been suggested that I take a poll on a new name for the game, I'll probably do that.

Well, I played Arcanion. I like the way the game flows in terms of taking quests and such. The sprites are also very nice. But the execution/presentation is off. There were also some errors here and there. Like in the intro. Irwin's sprite was over the panorama. Then there was an error in the first battle where Irwin got his sword. His idle stance was still under the animation. There was also a general lack of direction going on.

Overall, I liked Phantasia 5 better, but this game's idea in terms of design is better than P5's imo. If anything, I'd merge P5's story and mechanics with Arcanion's progression style, but that's not going to happen, so!

Up next is...*looks through the releases*

Hellion. I've never given these retro style games much attention. May as well try it.

So I played Hellion for like, half an hour so far. It's actually pretty damn good. I made my hero a Kensai and put my skill points into Defend, Crush, Lockpick and Forage. My party so far is Christo and Juliet.

With a Hammer of Defense, Damaged Tower Shield, and Full Plate, my hero is a monster on the first floor so far. I one shot'd a pixie with a 249 damage critical. :D

I expect to start getting killed once I start getting deeper into the pit though, so this is probably short lived.

There is one problem though. The Stamina display really lags up my game. In fact, I don't bother running/hiding at all because of it.

Overall, this is great so far. I'll come back to this. :3

Next is...Chronology of the Something or Another.

So, I played Monstrous Wars and was pretty impressed by the cutscene eventing. However, there were a few problems with the maps, such as disjointed transfer points (going in the door at the top of the dining room in your house and winding up in the upper left hand side of the screen in the basement, for instance), being able to walk on the counter in Walter's house where there's a jar, and standing near chairs and having your head go underneath them. Also, the music changed too frequently and had odd volume changes as well.

Besides those flaws, it was pretty neat, but I got killed by the boss slime because for some reason my attacks started only doing one damage, I wasn't given enough healing items or money with which to buy them, and all I could do was a bare handed attack. Honestly, having no skills in battles in addition to only one character is a surefire way to put me off as it's just so boring and the battles are so grindy. You just rest your head on your left hand while you press enter with your right.

I really liked the setting and would probably continue playing as I love games that mix modern with fantasy, but I really have no desire to go kill all those slimes again and fight a boss that puts my attack down to 1 when I have no skills to compensate for it.

I never actually made "Super Jonas Brothers 3", it was actually a joke post. Just to be clear on that.