Sister's Storybook is a short but fun 2011 Summer Games RMN contest entry. It combines colorful graphics and cute battlers with creative puzzles to definitely earn its four-star rating. Let's get started.

Warning: this review may contain spoilers.
Score: 4/5

Brother (what I named him) decides to pull another one of his famous pranks on his younger sister. Little does he know that he's about to be sucked into his sister's imagination and forced to deal with the frustration and madness that he causes her. There's the story. I found it interesting and kept me playing. And I normally don't like surrealism.

Once inside the storybook, the player must choose between three types of food: ham (brawler), potatoes (healer), and pizza (fighter). Pizza really is one of my favorite foods so I went with that and became a fighter. As I continued along, I found a sword and some chest armor. I received some fruit and found a feather! The feater is particularly important later in the game. In my case, it saved me from having to re-load the game.

Soon enough I was having teddy bears thrown at me and was engaging in the first few battles of the game. The battles are easy. I didn't have much of a problem at all until the very end. In fact, the developer meant for the game not to be too difficult but still not be a cake-walk. The experience rate is pretty high. Two or three battles in and I was already level two and shortly after, level three. By the end, I may have been level four. For a ten minute game, that's not bad.

The visuals are RTP but it seems like the default default sets have been edited to some extent. I'm not familiar with RMXP. But regardless, the mapping is pretty great. The surrealism is there. I think the developer pulls it off. You know one minute you're near the ocean and another you're inside a cave flowing with lava. All just seems out of place which is perfect in this case.

The gameplay consists of little puzzles that aren't too difficult. There's a rock-pushing puzzle which was the only one that really got to me until I noticed the grass patch. There's some pretty obvious jumping involved and a few riddles to solve. All in all, the puzzle-parts of the gameplay (which make up a large portion of this small game) were entertaining.

I'm not entirely sure if the audio was RTP or if the developer was lucky enough to find something that fit. As I said, I'm not too familiar with RMXP. But I did like the music and sounds and combat music was exciting enough.

What little advice I can give the developer is that although I understand that the game was meant to be short and easy, I would't mind seeing this turned into a good hour or two-worth of gameplay. The battles could have been a little more tricky or maybe just some adjusting to the character's or enemy's stats would have worked. Other than that, it's a great adventure through the storybook of a brothers' sister.

I think that about wraps this up. It's only a ten minute game so not a lot can be said. I did generally enjoy Sister's Storybook and maybe, just maybe, one day the developer can work in a sequel. I sure know I'd like to see one.