About the Demo:
*The difficulty could best be described as BRUTAL. Save all the time, and make multiple saves. If not careful, thorough, and lucky, you will die, to the elements, to the enemies, to traps, to starvation, to exhaustion. In the full game you will have early access to a town and to several party members. Since this is not included in the demo, you are on your own, which makes things even harder.
*The demo has no fixed ending point. The following areas are accessible, playable and tested: Manhattan Ruins (the tutorial), Ruined Barn, Underbridge, Burnt Out Plaza, Abandoned Gas Station, Frozen Creek, Poisoned Lake. Everything but the tutorial, which comes first, can basically be visited in any order. You SHOULDN'T be able to explore anything else in the game, so once you've explored and "cleared" each of these areas the demo is over, and you should go back to the beginning and do everything differently, but the truth is you probably can find a way to access the rest of the game's content, which is untested, unbalanced, and possibly broken. Do so at your own risk.
*This is technically a Public Open Beta and not a polished demo. That means that by downloading it you are agreeing to the following:
1. You will not judge this as you would a finished product, i.e. you will not grade on polish.
2. You will offer some kind of helpful feedback (yes, I do find effusive praise helpful, but bug reports are even better) to improve the game.
Download Here:
http://www.rpgmaker.net/games/881/downloads/
NOTE 1:
For the sake of limiting filesize and hence limiting the amount of bandwidth leeched from the site and storage space taken on your computer, neither of these downloads include the RPG Maker VX RTP, which can be downloaded here:
http://tkool.jp/products/rpgvx/eng/download.html
NOTE 2:
At the conclusion of the character creation/tutorial sequence, please do not choose to play as a Mechanique. While technically playable they are the worst balanced and weakest of all the available classes and you will be much less likely to have a fun time with the game if you are struggling with it.