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In the old Island of Azulea, the natives were pushed away from the land they once held. The ones who conquered the land have settled and created a new civilization on the Island. Now that the King is near death, there are 2 groups that are fighting for the throne.

You can change your class once you beat the 1st boss. Before then, you can choose which starting class you want your characters to be, out of 6 of them (Fighter, White Mage, Black Mage, Red Mage, Thief, Monk). You gain ABP after a battle, so once you get enough ABP, the character can learn an ability from their class. There are 40 quests in the game to take.

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Paradise Blue's 10th Anniversary!

I missed the actual date, but it still has been 10 years since I released Paradise Blue!

Paradise Blue was an interesting project to work on, and possibly the biggest one I've had so far! I've thankful for all the nice reviews and comments and people who enjoyed the game.


This was a passion project made from back when I was still in university, and really enjoyed working on an old school style project. I was torn between making Azulea and this, and Paradise Blue ended up going from a small side project to the main project.

The game was initially based around FF1s Class selection system for 4 characters. Quickly, FF5s class based system was added. A fair amount of the project was making the battle system and class system work together, and a number of classes got added or removed depending on how I felt about it. Dragoon was a class I would have wanted, but I felt I didn't have enough to go with skill wise on that and the Jump command was such a pain to code that i removed it. If you go back a few blog posts in Paradise Blue, you'll see me talk about the things that I didn't get to add, and 2 "Final Classes" (Angel Knight and Phoenix Knight) were those 2. Having a party of only those 2 at the end felt less interesting to me than having them pick their own 4 classes, it's why I wasn't a fan of FF3's Ninja/Sage classes either.

Graphically, it started out directly from FF1 but I strayed from that when I saw MSX Final Fantasys graphics and started shading the classes a bit. Soon I stopped caring about color restraints and then decided to just go all out and revamp them in my style. As far as enemy designs, you can see from the start of the game to the end of the game how different the designs are. At first, it was just my own designs but I got TFT to help design a bunch of monsters and they ended up being a whole lot more creative and interesting so I based my later enemy sprites off of those.

Team member wise, I asked people if they wanted to be NPCs, and had some do different effects if you hire them. I also had Dajhail and Kaede make a few songs for me as well which I liked a lot! The song playing when you get the Ancangers with Amelia / Neil is Dajs song, and the main battle theme is Kaedes. I wanted to really have the Island sort of influence appear throughout the game.

There is the definitely inspiration/influence from Final Fantasy 1 and 5, but I also was a big Might and Magic VI fan and took ideas from it such as the hiring NPCs for an effect, killing enemies that don't respawn (they do in MM6, but only by certain triggers or after a long enough passing of time), sidequests and all. It was sort of like a mix of various games I liked, and I wish my writing back then was interesting enough to hold up.

I've had various ideas of different Paradise Blue remakes I've wanted to do. I still have it on my to do list, but I've been busy with other projects that it's actually lower priority. My friend Jihaus (who worked on Ruin Frontier 0) did class sketches for me so I made sprites for... most of them? I need to check again but here's a few!


My thoughts were: Either I could make Paradise Blue and change up stuff in the 2k3 version and then make an updated version or a sequel in VX Ace or MV. Paradise Blue is not a small game and I wouldn't want to keep it 100% the same so it would take a while to make. I figured I could focus on Cast Ashore first, then Fragments of Mind and then Paradise Blue, but it is definitely something I still want to make! I'm sorry I haven't been able to release a new Paradise Blue, but game making is still important to me and I do want to create new games and learn more!


Here, have an Amelia artwork!
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Every time. Basically if I change class I'm stuck with it and cannot open the menus anymore.
This seems like a promising game, but before I consider getting into it, can anyone give me an estimated numbers of hours that this game will require?
Ocean
Resident foodmonster
11991
author=SigArms
Every time. Basically if I change class I'm stuck with it and cannot open the menus anymore.

I am stumped honestly. I tried the version 1.8 I have on here to make sure and yeah I don't get this issue, even trying it multiple times. In fact, this is the first time I'm hearing of it. I will see if I can find a workaround though, sorry :<

This seems like a promising game, but before I consider getting into it, can anyone give me an estimated numbers of hours that this game will require?

It depends on how much of the game you want to play. You can skip a lot of the content because a good number of it is sidequests but you're probably looking at about 4-10 hour game.
Paradise Blue, I choose you. Gonna give this RMN game a spin.
I DLed this game and forgot about it till recently when my PC exploded and my bro got me a replacement but it couldn't play most RPG maker projects...but this one it did so I tried it. @_____@ Amazing! Better than the FF series cause of how you made classes serve the PARTY! Seriously once you get used to it? That Ability system is brilliant and helps balance your party. At first I was angry when I realized your TES (Touch Encounter System) had no re-spawn but then I was quite pleased when I found the monster arena where you don't bet on fights, but pay to get EXP and ABP!! @u@ Frackin' brilliant!!
Ocean
Resident foodmonster
11991
Haha, glad you enjoyed! Yeah I knew the limited encounters might be an issue but one of the most important things needed for the characters was the ABP so I needed a way to have players be able to acquire ABP just in case they need to switch classes or abilities and have no other enemies to defeat. Level 1 game is possible so I wasn't worried about that for EXP.
...I don't think I ever left a review for this. even though I've mentioned it countless times on discord.
So I'm gonna write it down before I forget (expect edits):

Paradise Blue is the closest anyone has gotten to making a great Final Fantasy Fan game, without actually being Final Fantasy. I've been on rpgmaker.net since 2007 and I haven't seen anything come close. If you're planning on making a Final Fantasy game in rpgmaker - this is the first game you should play.

It's like FF1/FF3/FF5. You create a party. You go on quests. You fight monsters. You earn classes, skills and abilities. Those classes unlock better classes, skills and abilities, the more experience you gain - However, what separates Paradise Blue from other games, is not only the gorgeous and original pixel art that permeates throughout the game, that makes it look like long lost NES JRPG, but the new and unique classes you earn like "Chocolatier" and "Assassin", along side series staples like "DarkKnight", "Summoner" and "Paladin".

Paradise Blue, shows that there is so much more than can be done with Final Fantasy, than what Final Fantasy is doing itself. Paradise Blue is like if someone took a Final Fantasy 1 cartridge and painted this gorgeous mural in acrylic paint on the outside, but also, somehow, on inside of the game itself, while adding new quests, skills and abilities to it - it's like when you hook up your favorite game to a sound system for the first time and start hearing the intricacies of the music or when you hook that favorite game up to a new TV and begin noticing and appreciating the art that went into it. However, this is probably overselling it.

Paradise Blue, was made for rpgmaker2003 - It's the Arts and Crafts of Final Fantasy. There really hasn't been anything else like it, when there really should be. It scratches the surface of what rpgmaker and Final Fantasy, together, could be.

This is a must play for anyone even remotely interested in creating a Final Fantasy fan game; you need to play this game first.
author=LordBlueRouge
...I don't think I ever left a review for this. even though I've mentioned it countless times on discord.
So I'm gonna write it down before I forget (expect edits):

Paradise Blue is the closest anyone has gotten to making a great Final Fantasy Fan game, without actually being Final Fantasy. I've been on rpgmaker.net since 2007 and I haven't seen anything come close. If you're planning on making a Final Fantasy game in rpgmaker - this is the first game you should play.

It's like FF1/FF3/FF5. You create a party. You go on quests. You fight monsters. You earn classes, skills and abilities. Those classes unlock better classes, skills and abilities, the more experience you gain - However, what separates Paradise Blue from other games, is not only the gorgeous and original pixel art that permeates throughout the game, that makes it look like long lost NES JRPG, but the new and unique classes you earn like "Chocolatier" and "Assassin", along side series staples like "DarkKnight", "Summoner" and "Paladin".

Paradise Blue, shows that there is so much more than can be done with Final Fantasy, than what Final Fantasy is doing itself. Paradise Blue is like if someone took a Final Fantasy 1 cartridge and painted this gorgeous mural in acrylic paint on the outside, but also, somehow, on inside of the game itself, while adding new quests, skills and abilities to it - it's like when you hook up your favorite game to a sound system for the first time and start hearing the intricacies of the music or when you hook that favorite game up to a new TV and begin noticing and appreciating the art that went into it. However, this is probably overselling it.

Paradise Blue, was made for rpgmaker2003 - It's the Arts and Crafts of Final Fantasy. There really hasn't been anything else like it, when there really should be. It scratches the surface of what rpgmaker and Final Fantasy, together, could be.

This is a must play for anyone even remotely interested in creating a Final Fantasy fan game; you need to play this game first.
You are absolutely not overselling it!! Paradise Blue is my favorite Rpg maker game for good reason! The mechanics are well thought out and building your party is a joy. The environments are beautiful and the game is just long enough for ppl who just want to get through it, with enough extra content and challenges you can self impose there's always a new way to enjoy it after a playthrough.

I have played it for years and never gotten tired of it.
Joining the crowd to say Paradise Blue is ALSO one of my favorite RPG Maker games, it fights for the number 1 spot! It's always fun to go back to this game. There's a lot of side stuff to do or explore, & like Gourd said, great environments and team building.
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