INFECTIONFILES'S PROFILE

You definitely have some skills, so please don't let this detour you from game development. It's probably overly harsh but I just don't think joke games are the best way for one to spend their time.
I would love to see you take on a real game, if that's something you'd like to do or have thought about/currently working on.

Because it isn't terrible.

I would like to think you have a firm grasp at least on design and the flow of story/gameplay.
As for using RTP graphics, that's not an overly bad thing. It's just so commonly used you really notice when it isn't being used properly or to its full extent.

It really just isn't my kind of game, sadly.

But again, I would love to see you continue or work on something with a more serious basis or at least something that isn't entirely a "joke game"
You have nice ideas, so if anything maybe make a comedy/joke game about RPGs themselves. As I stated in the review that is what a lot of the jokes(that I actually found funny) were more geared towards. Especially here in a RM community we get it and are pretty hardcore about RPGs to a point where we devote a lot of free time to them. So, what I found funny was the jabs at JRPGS or western RPGs because that's something we here see everyday.
While I shouldn't be encouraging another "niche group" game, I think that poking fun at RPGs is probably pretty universal outside of the rpgmaker.net community.

While this game isn't great, I think you're leagues ahead of other amateur game developers in the RM community on writing and dedication to a subject alone.

edit: I'll also bump this up to a 2.5 for the effort put into it.

Ahh, I think I stopped trying to deface it with items, but that makes a lot of sense. I figured that the mayor was more for world building, so that's cool.
Any chance that the game will be expanded in the future?
Or it is what it is?

As for the titlescreen I think you could go really simple with it, if you ever wanted to change it. Maybe just a bright colored background with the title over it or something would work and honestly look much better. Because that's really the only complaint graphically.
At the very least I'd remove the dragon borders!

The "Real Man" comment was probably actually a stretch but it's now officially a reference!

And yes, lol the "mades me so glad" was actually a typo screen that I misused instead of a very similar shot of the gang. xD

Forbidden love shhhh

Haha, and yeah that seems about right. Can't really eat something that talks to you I would imagine.

It's good to be open to changes and criticism. It's a fine line to walk with turn based combat as the developer and sole playtester compared to an unknowing audience.
it's just an great thing to have outside eyes on your project, especially with combat.

You're doing good, KillerGin :) just always keep an open mind to feedback. Pianotm is a great writer and very level headed compared to some folks you can run into with this community. And believe it or not a lot of people put a lot of emphasis on story in rpg maker games, despite the crafting, combat, graphics, mapping etc. So this is just as an important step to consider in the game making process and something you should try to better get familiar with.
also a little more advice is to grab the player from the start.
you have to have a strong opening in this medium to keep players playing. It's a bit of a trading game with rpg maker games just because there is so many free options that players will simply move onto the next if they are not sucked in.

You're already miles ahead a lot of first time developers but it is important not to skip some of the lessons and experience that a lot of us learned the hard way years ago.
Keep it up my good man :D and you'll make it far here

I think the more "nasty" reviews or reviewers more comes from the developer sometimes that can't take it, then it can come off overly harsh.
Or like Corf said, the review reviewers.

Edit: Forgot to add that I see Indra as someone who is strong and confident and can realize flaws in her own work and deal with it great.

This game sux ballz and it's boring lol shitty game