FAENON'S PROFILE

I think you just need the RM2K font patch. Try the forums, useful stuff thread. Sorry, don't have time to hunt it down right now. Also there may just be fonts in the game folder which you can copy over into the relevant folder on your computer.

This game looks amazing

Hey everyone who's subscribed to this who reads their notices:

Please consider nominating TCS for a misao this year.

As a game creator, the more exposure your game gets, the more people play it, the more rewarding the whole experience is.

It was featured in Liberty's January misao possibilities article (and got a 'banana' medal there for noteworthy games!)

Anyway, why not nominate TCS for

-Excellence in Narrative

and/or

-Trippiest Game

?

Or even Game of the Year??? (unlikely I know)

Cheers,
Faenon

Oh wow, a new review for TCS! The first one in seven years and the first one ever for the full game and not just the demo!

Thanks so much RpgmakerAddict, your review is very much appreciated.

I'm so glad that you enjoyed the game and had fun with it :)

3.5 stars, well, so I have gained 0.5 stars in the seven years since my last review--that is progress!

I think you probably DO understand this game: the spelling errors and invisible sprites are all accidental errors and were NOT done on purpose. By the way, in the latest download of the game they have been fixed--if I manage to fix all of the 'little errors' in the game, will you bump me up to 4 stars?? No problem if not.

However, things like the World Map looking like a Mario level hub, the complete absence of leveling up, and the heavy focus on story/writing/character are all my own design choices--they are meant to connect with the game's atmosphere of being like a weird drug trip inside someone's mind and they also reflect my own personal tastes and what I like/dislike in rpgs ;)

By the way, did you beat the whole game or just up to chapter three? Did you get to the bit where you get incarnated in the game as yourself? What did you think?

Oh, and it IS possible to work out what different enemies Ivan and Jean's attacks are strong against--the best way is to use the "MINDREAD" command once you get Catherine.

Anyway, you should know that I take all my reviews very seriously and I will incorporate your feedback into my revisions of the game, as I am always editing and updating the download. For example I'm going to put some arrows into the Espia hub to show where to go as a few people have said it's a little tricky sometimes trying to get around there.

So, many thanks for a great review, RpgmakerAddict! Happy gaming!

If I get 5 stars for my next review then TCS's review score will average out at 4 stars! I better get to work on editing!

author=StormCrow
Undeniably true but keep in mind the idea of a storm crow bearing bad omens is also definitely an even earlier cultural folkloric thing Tolkien was tapping into.

Agreed.

author=StormCrow
Those quote-unquote "tricks" are actually elements of craftsmanship and style and plenty of the ones he neglects to use (like brevity) are not remotely "contemporary". Don't get me wrong, Tolkien is a fine writer if you have a tolerance for someone who runs quite long in terms of description. He wrote one of my favorite turns of phrase EVER: "Not all those who wander are lost". But once I'd read (in terms of Litfic) Hemingway or (in terms of genre fic) Pat Rothfuss and the like, Tolkien's prose was kind of ruined on me. Your mileage may vary obviously. I am grateful to JRR for the worldbuilding that let E. Gary Gygax make D&D, without which the world would be a shitty, shitty, shitty place (for one thing, we wouldn't have Final Fantasy). There is a very direct line from J.R.R. Tolkien through Advanced Dungeons & Dragons to Final Fantasy.

Debating about fantasy literature on the internet: one of my favourite things to do! I'm not sure about this. My projection is that much contemporary fantasy literature will be forgotten in a few centuries, except for the absolute greats of the genre, whereas LOTR will be remembered as one of the greatest--or at least most popular--books of the twentieth century because it just IS the absolute great of the genre. I think LOTR is primary mythmaking, whereas most other fantasy literature is just derivative of Tolkien. I think it’s interesting that Tolkien’s own source material was genuine ancient myth and legend. Most modern fantasy’s source material is Tolkien (along with other modern fantasy, without the original myths), which it is the worse for. Perhaps if modern fantasists went back to the original sources of Tolkien’s inspiration they would write better fantasy.

For example, you couldn't have Name of the Wind without Tolkien. I have read and greatly enjoyed Rothfuss, however I wouldn't say his work is anywhere near the standard of Tolkien's craftmanship. It's like juvenile self-indulgent male fantasy, James Bond in Middle Earth, in content, and the style is nowhere near as developed. I mean, rhyming couplets hidden in regular prose about having sex in different oddly named positions with a fairy in the woods? Come on!

By contrast, I think that LOTR has style AND substance. So I think we have much more to thank him for than just laying the cultural groundwork for DnD and Final Fantasy--though of course as a DnD and Final Fantasy player I am enormously thankful for him doing that too!

author=StormCrow
The Cerebral Symphonyadded to Recent Requests.

Thanks dude! If you want a reference point, one of my fans has just started a LP of the final chapter (having LP'd the whole of the rest of it previously). Looking forward to the review, whenever you get to it :)