CAZ'S PROFILE

Having never played the Suikoden games I don't mind the story being ripped too much, and I can live with hearing stolen music considering how great lots of commerical tracks are. I guess I'll reserve judgement for after having played Exit Fate..

Made cup of tea, sat down to play Exit Fate, get a little way in to introductions and stuff aaaaanddd.. game decides to crash.

But I loooove what I see so far, the character development is huge piles of awesome! I find it difficult to believe it was made in RPG Maker, too..

The battle versus you and your lunch is an interesting one. Like a farming simulator or something, but every so often a monster or two come to hassle your crops/animals/you for food. They'd have to be pretty difficult battles to fully show how much of a struggle it is to keep your stuff safe from them. I guess you'd either maybe die if you lost ('cause you got eated), or have a significant portion of crops/animals taken by them as punishment for sucking. That sounds like quite a nice idea, actually! It'd give you some reason to actually care about the crops you plant instead of wake up, hoe, plant, water, sleep, water, sleep, water.. urrghhhhh..

As for your RPG idea with the eating of maidens and carrots, I lol'd but still considered it quite seriously. I mean, wanting to eat is a good reason to kill other things/people but.. can't he eat something else? Why does he hunger for flesh? Isn't he worried about cannibalism causing spongiform encephalopathy and other such craziness? Or maybe he's already under their hold, and that's why he craves more flesh? XD It's just little nitpicking reasonings behind why you're ever fighting that I like. I hate when you start off in an RPG and are told to 'save the princess' or whatever, so you immediately GRAB YOUR SWORD and KILL EVERY FLUFFY CREATURE IN THE FOREST on your way to get her. 'cause you're a lovely guy and chicks dig the fresh blood of innocent puppies. <3

Tales of the Abyss is probably my favourite game for storyline and explanations. The main character, Luke, is dumped back at his house when he's a kid without any memories, so his parents keep him locked up inside for seven years to protect him. Point being, when he gets out to do his quest for various reasons, he doesn't know what the eff is going on when monsters show up and he honestly despises the thought of killing another person. I think it was quite rushed in-game, but it'd have to be. It'd be useless if your main character couldn't attack anything in that game, but that's not to say it wouldn't in others (eg. maybe your hero is running a small army patrol (your party) and decides what they do, but never gets involved because he doesn't want to get his hands dirty). I get the feeling I've digressed a lot..

Not a problem, glad it was well received! If you decide you don't actually like it or it doesn't fit in, don't worry about not using it - it only took about 30 minutes in total, so it wasn't a huge drain on time or anything. That, and I mainly did it during school..

author=alterego
Haha! You guys should make a comedy skit or something. =P

Or do a weekly/monthly/somethingly podcast about RMN.