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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

Hello subscribers! The penultimate chapter of The Cerebral Symphony, Chapter 4, is now out and available for download.

Give it a whirl and let me know what you think.

Please note this is currently a beta version. There will be some bugs, and in particular the battle systems are not finished yet.

Please send me any feedback and bugs you find in written form and then I will do my best to incorporate the reports. If you send me enough I might even credit you as a tester!

I hope that the next release of TCS, after Chapter 4 is tidied up, will be the last. The dream is to have this finished by Christmas 2015. However, I am currently in the process of finishing up a PhD, which is due to be completed later this year, so TCS Chapter 5 may be out more like Christmas 2016, or even later, unless I miraculously get a BIG free chunk of time to work on it before then!

Enjoy the game!
AAAAaaaaaaaaaaalright! :D Let's rock! But I will probably upload them at around 13 and so because I have important matter today (12), thanks for the bell :D
For those that don't know, @raikenjenova is my #1 fan in Indonesia, who discovered The Cerebral Symphony through rpgmaker.net! He's played and given feedback on a number of other games on the site as well.

raikenjenova is also my premier Let's Player on youtube and thus also my lead tester. With his idiosyncratic use of the English language, his innocent charm and the occasional interruptions from his mother and/or cat in his videos, his Let's Play series are sure to entertain you. Link on main summary page.

Looking forward to the LP of Chapter 4 already, raiken!
author=Faenon
For those that don't know, @raikenjenova is my #1 fan in Indonesia, who discovered The Cerebral Symphony through rpgmaker.net! He's played and given feedback on a number of other games on the site as well.

raikenjenova is also my premier Let's Player on youtube and thus also my lead tester. With his idiosyncratic use of the English language, his innocent charm and the occasional interruptions from his mother and/or cat in his videos, his Let's Play series are sure to entertain you. Link on main summary page.

Looking forward to the LP of Chapter 4 already, raiken!


dang I feel like I am one of those characters! XDDDDDDDD

SEARCHING DATABASE...
NAME : RAIKEN JENOVA
GIFT : LET'S PLAYER
DEFECT : IDIOSYNCRATIC
AGE : 22
LIKES : DOING WEIRD THINGS
DISLIKES : GETTING DISTRACTED BY MOM AND PET DOG (yes, a meowing dog.) XD
WEAPON : LAPTOP

Description : what you said \XD/

Might start it tomorrow, wish me luck! :D
author=raikenjenova
dang I feel like I am one of those characters! XDDDDDDDD

SEARCHING DATABASE...
NAME : RAIKEN JENOVA
GIFT : LET'S PLAYER
DEFECT : IDIOSYNCRATIC
AGE : 22
LIKES : DOING WEIRD THINGS
DISLIKES : GETTING DISTRACTED BY MOM AND PET DOG (yes, a meowing dog.) XD
WEAPON : LAPTOP

Description : what you said \XD/

Might start it tomorrow, wish me luck! :D


Lol, don't worry raiken, "idiosyncratic" is definitely not a defect!
author=Faenon
Lol, don't worry raiken, "idiosyncratic" is definitely not a defect!


Yay! So it's a gift then? XD

Btw it's out for today! :D

Bug spotted! O_O/
When Luke and Jo were confused about left or right thing, when he went to the left, it got stuck and I can't make progress thru it :o
Can you check it please? o_O
author=raikenjenova
Bug spotted! O_O/
When Luke and Jo were confused about left or right thing, when he went to the left, it got stuck and I can't make progress thru it :o
Can you check it please? o_O


Oh no! Sorry about that. For some reason the 'Proceed with movement' command doesn't work properly on that map and stalls the game because of how I coded the guard's movement. I thought I'd fixed them all and tested it thoroughly, not sure how it got through.

In any case I've fixed it now and updated the download.

Please tell me if it now works for you. Also, for now please could you Private Message me any bug fixes as opposed to posting them here? I don't want to clog up people's Notices with posts about bug reports. Thanks!
sure, I will send you PM when I found another. :D
So I will redownload it again and continue the second part as well. stay in touch! :3


Part 3!
Sorry about the delay, had to deal with internet quota for this week xD before get my salary 5 days afterward!
Part 5 bursting myself out XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD



Good job about the cute yellow thing btw >_>


Last part!!! O_O/
Waiting for the last chapter! :DD
Hello again subscribers! (including you new ones I seem to have picked up lately from being featured on the RMN homepage)

If you don't have time to play The Cerebral Symphony just yet, raikenjenova, my #1 fan in Indonesia, has just finished his Let's Play of the latest chapter! View it in the posts above, on the media page, or at this youtube link: https://youtu.be/3RP7UtNk6-8

With Chapter 4 (technically Beta) now out, slow but steady work will now start on updating and fixing bugs in the download for Chapters 1-4, and of course on the final chapter, Chapter 5!

However, because I am in the process of finishing up a PhD in Theology and applying for real life jobs, and only have at most about one hour a week to work on TCS, unless I miraculously come across a big chunk of unexpected free time then please do not expect the final chapter any time soon!

In the meantime, please enjoy Chapters 1-4, and do please send me any feedback you have since I will incorporate it into my edits and updates. If you send me enough, I will list you as a tester, as happened for kumada, Link_2112 and raiken!

All the best,
Faenon
This is not dead. I handed in my PhD thesis, and now I have started training as a secondary school (high school) teacher, which is a buttload of work. But the ending is in my head, ideas are in my notebook, and I will not let this die. I will finish this one day!
author=Faenon
This is not dead. I handed in my PhD thesis, and now I have started training as a secondary school (high school) teacher, which is a buttload of work. But the ending is in my head, ideas are in my notebook, and I will not let this die. I will finish this one day!


Great to hear from you. Congrats on becoming the soon-to-be Dr. Faenon!

I'm just happy that this game will see a fitting end.
author=Zadok83
Great to hear from you. Congrats on becoming the soon-to-be Dr. Faenon!

I'm just happy that this game will see a fitting end.


Thanks dude! The encouragement helps spur me on.