LIBERTY'S PROFILE

I enjoy playing and creating games (mostly RPGs) and have a love of story and characterisation above graphics. I've been into RM* since '96 and have used all makers - started on the PSX makers, found and used a patched version of the SNES RM, then moved to RM95. When I found RM2K I finally decided to join some forums and I've been a part of the community ever since.

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Site last broken: 7th January, 2017
Before that: 24th May 2016
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I'm surprised that I'm surprised that there is so much borderline/actual porn clogging up itch.io's top sellers.

Well, keep in mind that easily accessible places for buying indie porn games without getting trojans and a billion ads on your screen are few and far between. I don't blame them for jumping on itch.io. If leafo doesn't care, good on him and good on them for making their monetary dreams a reality.


I'd totally make a porn game... under another name. If I haven't already. You wouldn't know now, would you? ;p

Breath of Fire II is actually pretty good. Never appreciated the characters before (though some are clearly better than others)

OMG YESSSSSS



Uh liek spoilers below for ending and character stuff
Like, growing up, there were women in that game that were clear role models.



Like, Katt may be dumb but she's not stupid - she's got emotional intelligence and she can use high-end magic, she was just never taught how, so she deals with a lack of education, but she's still so kickass and brilliant. And her scenes with Tiga, knowing she doesn't love him but accepting his love and telling him that what they feel likely isn't enough but that she'll give it a shot... just so good. Especially the little bits strewn here and there about her clan and how rare it is to see them (the offer to buy her from the monster hunters, Tiga being ready to jump into marriage because he's never seen another Woren before, the fact you don't see any other Woren in your travels, the cat talk, etc) The fact she supports Ryu 100% after he saves her from the poisoned needle. She's hot-headed and brash but she pays back what she owes and cares for her friends enough to do anything for them.

Then Nina, who is Dealing With Shit but still so kind and capable. She doesn't let her history tie her down and she's willing to sacrifice herself to help save the world, but when her sister takes her place she doesn't fall apart, but instead gets back up and fights for the future.

Then there's Clarice, who is hiding her love for Tiga because she doesn't want it to get in the way of work. She accepts that he doesn't see her as more than a comrade and doesn't push the expectation of romance on him, instead focussing on the job at hand. Even when tortured in front of the whole church of evil asshats, she doesn't say a thing about the resistance.

Daisy, the hard-as-nails mother of Rand, who is super strong and pig-headed, but knows what she wants and isn't afraid to tell people to get stuffed no matter that they're authoritarian. She's hard on Rand, but she shows she loves him at the end when she sacrifices herself in his place. She's shown as having faults and not being really likable - she belittles Rand and is abusive towards him, but despite that she still loves him and puts his life before hers and pulls his friends into their home.

Petape, the spoiled princess whose brother decides to just up and away on travels, making sure that the kindgom is still there when he gets back. She gets frustrated with Jean, but it's clear she loves him despite all that he puts her through. When she believes that the kingdom will fall to an enemy she seeks to solve the issue herself.

Elforan who loves Sten but lets him go when he doesn't wish to stay, even going so far as to follow him on his journey and pretend to be a guard for your town (yes, you can get a guard in Tunland named El, and a discussion between 'him' and Sten reveals that it's highly likely 'he's' the princess in disguise) just to be near him. She isn't seen much of but she rules a military-based country and has done through wars in the past, keeping her people safe and making it a military might.

Valerie who followed her duty to find out about the evil of the world and travelled to the surface, where she fell in love with a human and had two children she adored. When evil came knocking she didn't hesitate to protect her home by transforming into a dragon and sealing the mountain passes so that the world could be safe from the demons. Then, when reunited with her son and daughter once more, she chooses to die in order to allow Ryu to head into Infinity and deal with the threat, leaving words of love for him.

Mina who never knew her sister was considered an ill omen and had her back when she found out - so much so that she chose to sacrifice her own life as a person to become the Giant Bird in her place, despite the knowledge that she would forget everything she was. That she would forget her mother and father, her sister who loved her and protected her, the cute dog-boi who could have been a love interest... everything and everyone she ever held dear would be gone and she chose to bear that in place of her sister, who she realised could do more for the world than she could at the point in time.

Patty/Yua, the lost sister of Ryu who went to the dragon to dream of her mother (the dragon who WAS her mother) and when the demon took the memories of the townspeople from her, left her all alone in the world. She found her own way, becoming a thief and making her way to support the resistance against the church, stealing to help others. She makes mistakes and isn't the best thief but she still retains that memory, many years later, of the dragon being special and races back in a heartbeat when it's mentioned that the dragon was injured. She doesn't know it's her mother, she doesn't know Ryu's her brother, all she knows is to follow her heart and instincts and does so, rushing to protect the last piece of her past life she has left.



This game doesn't get enough love for the things that are done with the characters and even with the abysmal translation it gets so much of them across. There's a reason it's one of my favourite games.

Hell, the whole end part from meeting Daisy to the last battle is such a trip and just such well-done story-telling and character-showing. Ugh.


And let me talk about how the few pervs in the game are called out and dealt with, and the perving is about the girls being cute, not about what they're wearing - which is great considering they could have gone places with Katt not actually wearing pants ever or Nina's skit being hitched all up the side or even Bleu's boobs hanging out so much. But they don't. The few comments are focussed on the girls' attractiveness and then they get either beat up by a stick or Dealt With by lightning bolts. The women in your party do not put up with shit.


Also, let's talk about just how much characterisation you get each and every time you head back home and talk to your allies. Every time something new happens in the story they say something different both out in the common room and in the privacy of their own rooms, which is just gah! A simple idea but one that fits.

Oh, and taking different characters with you amounts to different reactions to different scenes. Small changes but still nice to see.

And I kinda want to talk about the whole Afini thing because holy crap the choice there and your allies talking to you about it just... and the scene with the crystals and Evans... ;.;~<3



I finished streaming this game a week or so back and yes, it has faults. Yes, it has gameplay issues. But it's still one of my favourite games and I don't think I'll ever change that.

Don't worry Liberty! You're still #1 in our hearts!

Well, I did sing him a 'sexy' Christmas song last year. I'm pretty sure his kids haven't don't that!


XD

sometimes i feel proud of the games i've made

You should be. Some of them are some of my favourite games (I rec HR to everyone and some of the others like Generica and Hellion when people are looking for something a little different but in the vein of DW/Q).

They're a lot of fun.

Don't worry Liberty! You're still #1 in our hearts!

I'm saving this so I can read it back when I'm feeling down.


Also, what a nice birthday present (very likely not deliberately so, so the timing is amazing).


in other news it's raining inside my room. how else to explain my face being wet?

<3

hmm, should I include this torrid lesbian romance in my game even though it's not *strictly* necessary to the plot?

Sometimes you need something a bit different as a break from overcompressed story. If you're always on the rails, so to speak, you can get tired of them. So a small side-quest or story, or some minigames or just something to break up the doom and gloom and lighten things up can work out really well.

It can also work as a stark contrast aspect, artistically and tonally. You have the ritzy daughter of a stupidly rich family, having to deal with the reality of her girlfriend who is not as lucky but who is a lot more danger. Then there's the poltical worry side of things with the main character dating someone important and how that works with the war. Throw in some cute bits with them to give a bit of fluff and add depth to their relationship and you have something that would fit well, give the players a break from the constant tragedy and kickass, and a reason to 'come home', etc. Things you can play off story-wise, too, if you want to add more drama (oh no, she's expected to be going on a date with a respectable match for her position. oh no, mc has gone missing in the field what will gf do now that her family are pressuring her to move on. oh no, they wanted to meet before the big ending battle but it didn't manage to happen will gf still be alive after. oh no they had a fight due to the stress of everything going on in their lives will their romance survive.)

I don't see why it shouldn't fit, tonally, to the story if tweaked to be included as an essential part instead of just an add-on, is what i'm trying to say, I guess.

Your existence may have been as long as a mayflie's, but your duty in the universe was performed gloriously. I press my F to your legacy of Advanced Gamedev Shitposting.

I unbanned you, you dork. Because we figured out it was you. :/
It's almost like we can see stuff behind the scenes that you can't, and you weren't really obscuring anything so... yeah. You're welcome. Don't do it again.

WHEN WILL THE HALLOWEEN EVENT BE ANNOUNCED

I was thinkinging either a revivde the dead or november having a realse something. but revive the dead is a good too

Worry not, dear fellows! I have returned~<3

Dawww you lot <3

Liberty Moving Update: Internet should be back in full 4~8 days. Progress of move: 67.4394% 'Hereness': 12.5796%

author=KatanaHiroshi
should've used a ssd to make it faster

no idea what that is or how it would make transitioning from one house to another faster