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a crazy, unchained game...and one that I would strongly recommend to anyone wanting to try something different for a change.
-ganonfrog's review

I had fun! ... The cut-scenes are very well done...I loved the humor and the quirky characters, not only the party members, but also the other people you will meet, love and hate! ... The Cerebral Symphony is a good game, not too hard and full of humor and diversions, of adequate length. ... Maybe I don't understand this game, but I sure had a lot of fun with it!
-TheRpgMakerAddict's review

Strong writing, clever system, interesting characters, and an engaging plot...this game is unreasonably good. It is probably the single cleverest thing I've played on rmn, and its ability to take itself seriously even while it's not taking itself seriously borders on the supernatural...some really phenomenal world-building and dialogue and mapping in kind of a weird package, and I think the community will dig it
-kumada (tester)

Overall I enjoyed the game because of the story. The dialogue is good, the characters are good.
-Link_2112 (tester)

LP by raikenjenova:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDOLxHMXxfE&list=PLd8tGajquAkEwoRAiZ1Po8F7YgDduApSf

Lowdown

-Begun as the side-project of a bored and depressed fifteen-year old, The Cerebral Symphony has evolved into a claustrophobic, poorly layed-out, passionately-written 2d RPG

-Chapter 1 came out in 2011, Chapter 2 in 2012, Chapter 3 in 2013, Chapter 4 in 2015, the full game came out in 2018!

-About 9 hours play time.

-Please post any feedback to this game page as I am always tweaking and updating the download. If you send me enough, I will list you as a tester.


Story

Brad, a jock, trips one day (at a party, we can only assume), accidentally plunging himself into the hallucinatory world of The Cerebral Symphony where he meets a guy called Ivan, who you might wonder is a human metaphor for repressed teenage angst.

Join the schizophrenic, multiple-personality-disorder afflicted Ivan, whose destiny (and personalities) you can steer through his individual choices as he bumbles his way through his life as a renegade thief into a big war between the underground cyborg Mafia, the omnipresent, all-seeing Corporation and the corrupt, power-crazed Government over the six elemental stones that, when gathered together, bestow ULTIMATE POWER on their holder. Mwahahaha!

On the way you will meet Liz the ADHD werewolf, Jean the insomniac minstrel, Catherine the telepath with a firey temper, Carys the delusional young stage actress, Robert the narcoleptic doctor, Zak the homeostatically-imbalanced fighter-pilot, and Bain the accident prone Gladiator. You will decide whether in the final estimation it is Ivan's more "upbeat" or his "darker" personality that will win control of his mind as they battle with his more balanced, "pensive" side.

Story-driven and choice-based, The Cerebral Symphony is a sci-fi/fantasy/drug trip 2d RPG game with an emphasis on character development and fun, non-random, side-view, Final Fantasy VI style battles, made up of 5 chapters.

Featuring the Fully Completed MULTIPLE PERSONALITY SYSTEM(TM), where Ivan's in-game choices will affect dialogue and plot, alter the screen tint and interface colours and change his battle class and music. You only gain skills in the personality in which you fight! Your choices will affect the story! Enjoy!

Latest Blog

Faenon has started writing a serial JRPGlit webnovel

Hello subscribers to TCS!

Two pieces of news. First of all, Halibabica will shortly be doing a youtube LP of TCS.

Secondly, in UK lockdown I have started uploading a serial fantasy webnovel heavily inspired by JRPGS, especially Final Fantasy IV and VI.

It has twelve heroes with distinct personalities who go on an adventure in order to carry out an epic quest, elemental magic, airships, battles, monsters, and a Cid!



People here are probably in the small subset of people who might enjoy this, so if you want to read it, go here https://www.wattpad.com/story/228098139-saga-of-the-jewels

or here https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/32469/saga-of-the-jewels

or here https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13581482/1/Saga-of-the-Jewels

or here https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3346873/1/Saga-of-the-Jewels

Peace out,
Faenon

Posts

I got it! :D
Well it's still in beta, so...
Maybe I will not posting all of the part of the chapters, I mean, just for some review videos before it fully released. :D Will tell ya later soon after I finished recording it. (It's better for preventing any spoiler till the game released tho.) And will let you know if we encounter some bugs or glitches as well.

Hope ya don't mind. After it fully released, I will make the full vids of it. \O/


There are around 2 or 3 bugs or glitches I found so far based on the video. And for the next events and another glitch that I might find at later part, maybe I will just PM you for some fixes and some Screenies of it.

/O/
Ok. TCS Chapter 3 is out. Many thanks to raikenjenova for beta testing (the video he posted above is just of the first dungeon in Chapter 3). I guess it's not super utterly completely polished yet, but anyone should feel free to post or sends me feedback as I am constantly working on the game in my spare time when I can and so I will be updating the download from time to time. To start from chapter 3, load the third save file. Cheers, Faenon
Aha! Alright, video update will come later.
Happy new year!

(btw sorry for late reply for a week, just having newyear vacations xD)
So I broke TCS while trying to reduce the filesize by purging it of all unreferenced files using RMtool. This means the latest download had been crashing for people. Luckily I had a backup, so I've replaced the download with a repaired version. Sorry about that. (raikenjenova, you will still need to start from the beginning or load the third savefile to get past that recurring bug you found whil testing.) Thanks.
author=Faenon
So I broke TCS while trying to reduce the filesize by purging it of all unreferenced files using RMtool. This means the latest download had been crashing for people. Luckily I had a backup, so I've replaced the download with a repaired version. Sorry about that. (raikenjenova, you will still need to start from the beginning or load the third savefile to get past that recurring bug you found whil testing.) Thanks.


It's alright xD
At least I enjoy myself starting from beginnings after all.
Alright, downloading and will give feedback later. :3


>:D

Btw thanks for the fix XD
I enjoy this game more than I do! XD
Thanks raikenjenova! Great work! I'll definitely be watching carefully for future edits... Looking forward to the rest of the LP :)
Sure! I will be uploading them in the next day :D

Ah, there we go. :3/
Sorry bout that. reuploaded. XD
Work has begun on TCS Ch4, along with ongoing revisions and improvements to the previous three chapters. I'm not sure that this one will make it out by Christmas, as I am now a PhD student and this is going to be a busy year. But I am committed to finishing this game, hopefully by 2015 or so.
author=Faenon
Work has begun on TCS Ch4, along with ongoing revisions and improvements to the previous three chapters. I'm not sure that this one will make it out by Christmas, as I am now a PhD student and this is going to be a busy year. But I am committed to finishing this game, hopefully by 2015 or so.


Good luck! I need hiatus too as my laptop broken (again) XD
While waiting for the next project, I promised SpiritedMirror for making his video (Altho it's completed but still waiting for the laptop to be repaired :x)

So take your time and good luck :D Let me know if it's in beta!
As usual, in the last week before the Christmas holidays, I'm hitting this hard. Chapter 4 probably still won't be done by Christmas though, unfortunately. Finishing the whole thing by Christmas 2015 is the dream -we'll see!
nhubi
Liberté, égalité, fraternité
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Good to know this is still being worked on, it's been a long time coming. Just one small correction for you, in your description you've written;

Simon the narkileptic doctor, that should be narcoleptic. Assuming you mean he falls asleep at random moments with no control over his actions. Perhaps you meant he is some kind of snitch with epileptic seizures and you created a portmanteau word to match.
author=nhubi
Good to know this is still being worked on, it's been a long time coming. Just one small correction for you, in your description you've written;

Simon the narkileptic doctor, that should be narcoleptic. Assuming you mean he falls asleep at random moments with no control over his actions. Perhaps you meant he is some kind of snitch with epileptic seizures and you created a portmanteau word to match.


Thanks nhubi. No, you're right, I did mean narcoleptic as you will know if you've played the game, where he always falls asleep. Has been corrected in-game, will change it on the characters page sometime too!
I finally have a skeletal path that goes from the start to the end of Chapter 4. Now I just need to start coding the details!
author=Faenon
I finally have a skeletal path that goes from the start to the end of Chapter 4. Now I just need to start coding the details!


Glad to see you're still hanging in there. This game is a lot of fun, so I'm looking forward to seeing it complete.
author=Zadok83
author=Faenon
I finally have a skeletal path that goes from the start to the end of Chapter 4. Now I just need to start coding the details!
Glad to see you're still hanging in there. This game is a lot of fun, so I'm looking forward to seeing it complete.


Thanks Zadok! These encouragements keep me going!
author=Faenon
author=Zadok83
author=Faenon
I finally have a skeletal path that goes from the start to the end of Chapter 4. Now I just need to start coding the details!
Glad to see you're still hanging in there. This game is a lot of fun, so I'm looking forward to seeing it complete.
Thanks Zadok! These encouragements keep me going!


Can't wait to get myself on stage again after being hiatus for 2 years xD