EUPHONIAC'S PROFILE

You'll be missing out on a lot of good things with that kind of attitude. There are many legitimate positive reviews for this game, but what's even more important: Why don't you just play a game if you find it interesting? I mean: You can - and should - do what you want to do, but I'll never understand people who, for example, don't watch movies starring Tom Cruise just because of his involvement with Scientology. Such a behavior doesn't help anyone and doesn't solve the underlying, fundamental problem.

With regard to Liberty's review: I kind of understand her complaints. JRPGs requiring skill aren't everybody's cup of tea.

So now that bigwig Liberty doesn't like the game, all reviews exhibiting a higher rating have to be removed?

I downloaded "The Story Of The Earth And Star" from CentroRPG and finished it today. While it is pretty generic and suffers from horrible English (Misao 2005 Worst Dialogue Award), it is complete, of decent length and has its heart in the right place. Plus: It must be one of the few RPG Maker 2000 JRPGs (I don't know another apart from this one) that utilizes a side-view battle system. Since I enjoyed playing it, it should be worth preserving.

The CentroRPG version, though, lacks a huge amount of necessary resources. Even though RPG Maker 2000 is pretty forgiving in this regard (it accepts nearly all bullshit replacements as long as the file is generally compatible), I opted for a better solution. Fortunately, I own a legal copy of RPG Maker 2000, so I just inserted the missing resources. Feel free to add my "playable edition" to the master list (I will remove this download link as soon as one of the bigwigs attends to this matter):

http://www.mediafire.com/file/lc7zq28gyi4hj7z/Story+Of+The+Earth+And+Star.zip

Here's a detailed report of what I did:

Battle (inserted from the RPG Maker 2000 RTP; * means probably not needed, but inserted nonetheless just in case):
Absorption (Bite renamed)
Arrow*
Axe*
Barrier
cold (ice renamed)
Dark
Down (Debuff renamed)
Earth
etc (Other renamed)
Explosion
Fang (Claw renamed)
Fire1
Fire2
hit (Blow renamed)
Holy
Paralysis
Poison (Breath renamed)
Ray (Ressurection/Resurrection renamed)
spear
Sphere* (Treatment renamed)
Sun (Recovery renamed)
Sword1
Sword2*
Up (Buff renamed)
Water
Whip*
Wind
Zip* (Thunder renamed)

CharSet:
- Vehicle (inserted Vehicles from the RPG Maker 2000 RTP and renamed it)
- Inserted nearly everything else from the RPG Maker 2000 RTP to play it safe.

ChipSet: inner (inserted Interior from the RPG Maker 2000 RTP and renamed it)

Panorama:
- morning2 (inserted Sky2 from the RPG Maker 2000 RTP and renamed it)
- contains Evening1 and Evenin_g1 (they are both the same except for the name, but you need them both)

System: system01 renamed to system.

Remaining issues: Characters can only be seen during battles when attack animations play out.

Known (game-breaking) bug: When riding the ship to Asta and the Ghost Ship appears, a soldier now stands in front of the stairs in the ship's eastern part. He is supposed to block access to the stairs, but the player can still sneak past. Don't do this, though, because the game freezes on the way back.

Edit: Removed the download link to my "master RTP folder" because it doesn't work as intended (it's still required to manually copy & paste missing resources). And, of course, in order to avoid a potential lawsuit. :D

This seems to be a "popular" problem. :D

Quoting what GoldenUnicornGaming said on Steam: "Go back to Mihr, and walk south through the Gnollwood. Once out of the Gnollwood, you'll see the Dreadfort. Rickard and his camp are set up there."

Going in a different direction was definitely a good idea. In case you ever need to find "Double Trouble 2: The Third" on the internet, now you know it's still somewhere out there. :)