Full Games List
Featured Games
New Games
Reviews
Images
Blogs
Game Updates
Images Feedback Summary
Game Design Highlights
Tutorials
Articles
Scripts
Utilities / Plugins
Resources
Engines
Engine Bulletins
What is Makerscore?
Past Events
Achievements
Forums
Post History
Chat
New to RMN?
Full Store List
RMN Music Pack (free)
Add Review
Subscribe
Nominate
Submit Media
RSS
Endorsements
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!
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
Faenon
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
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
- Completed
- 5 of 5 episodes complete
- Faenon
- TheNecromancer
kumada
raikenjenova
RedNine - Kazachok (Composer)
radarbear (Artist) 
RPG Tsukuru 2003- RPG
- 12/02/2010 11:46 AM
- 05/06/2023 06:30 AM
- 12/31/2018
- 261327
- 62
- 1726
Tags
Posts 
View playlists
Close
Faenon
3489
Oh sorry -I reuploaded the proper Ch1 a few days ago and posted in the blog comments where our conversation was happening; I thought you would have got a notification about it. Other than that, Ch2 should be here by Christmas, though progress is slow :S
Faenon
3489
Glad you figured out a way to do it benos. Have you got any further yet? Made it to the Corporation or the GOBOT?
Seems liked it was a hard battle with Xanathor, the priests, well I just survived barely, I don't think I gotten far with the boss.
But the red system set kind of brighten my eyes and hurts. At least I go back to pensive.
I remember I had to quit to go to bed and rest while dealing with the boss himself, so I ended the game, and now I had, the boss itself was easy. Just have to draw and use Luke's Psybeam.
But the red system set kind of brighten my eyes and hurts. At least I go back to pensive.
I remember I had to quit to go to bed and rest while dealing with the boss himself, so I ended the game, and now I had, the boss itself was easy. Just have to draw and use Luke's Psybeam.
Faenon
3489
author=chana
It was ok, good points : the main character with his different personalities, the mapping's ok, the problem : no real story to hold everything together(I didn't play the whole demo).
You can't diss the story if you haven't played the whole thing! It throws you in at the deep end, right, but the context and interrelationships gradually unfold. Is there a part of the story you didn't understand?
It was ok, good points : the main character with his different personalities, the mapping's ok, the problem : no real story to hold everything together(I didn't play the whole demo).
Faenon
3489
Ok chaps -benos in particular- I have reuploaded the demo now with the red system less harsh on the eyes and the upbeat personality much easier to play in the first battle. Thanks for your input on this benos and Creation.
Would anyone who was responsible for any of the 60 downloads the demo has had care to give it a review?
Would anyone who was responsible for any of the 60 downloads the demo has had care to give it a review?
I remember downloading it, but forgot to play it, I'll look into playing more tomorrow, morning work til 3pm. So I'll play for a little while tonight now. lol, yeah, the red system set hurts my eyes, and i got pwned in the first battle.
Faenon
3489
What did you think, Benos, Cornflake, chana, psy_wombats? Would be curious to hear your feedback.
Faenon
3489
author=psy_wombats
(ugh I wish I could stand the FF6-type systems...)
I know! If I could code well enough to not be making this with rpgmaker, it would be different. Unfortunately I don't have the time/patience/intelligence to make a CBS. But I hope my DBS mods and mid battle choices should make this a bit more interesting than mashing space-bar.
psy_wombats
13315
Yeah, I'll definitely be checking this out when you're done.
(ugh I wish I could stand the FF6-type systems...)
(ugh I wish I could stand the FF6-type systems...)
