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Legend of the Silverstone [2k3][DynRPG][25h] Review

woopsy seems like I never wrote an english version of this story XD
well its like this (Spoilers ahead):

-after the mountain part you are confronted by the thiefs and they run off
-you walk through the woods towards Libra, the town of the judges when you find a sign towards a town within the forest called Prefis Hark
-everyone in the town is gone but for some reason there seem to be imperial soldiers there
-it turns out the empire has a secret base here
-the heroes are caught by some guards and are led to their commander who seems to have gotten very weird because of being stationed here for years and being forgotten by the emperor
-it turns out the empire has a hidden labratory in the town where they conduct strange experiments with humans and nakuu
-also one of the experiments seems to be causing mind issues and hallucinations with all of the soldiers
-the commander wants to send the heroes to the empire but Tessaja Kyre appears and demands the commander to hand them over
-while the commander and Tessaja argue the heroes manage to free themselves from their guards and escape ending up in the laboratory
-while the heroes find out all of this by accidentially stumbling into the old rotting laboratory they find a highly guarded capsule (codename ECHO) containing a strange body
-the body turns alive and follows them killing of dozens of imperial soldiers
-the soldiers evacuate to their airship and the heroes also board this ship
-the body of this undead psychic creature also gets onboard killing everybody
-the heroes meet Tessaja who seems to be connected to Echo (the walking psychic corpse) and it turns out Tessaja found Prefis Hark because she was called there by Echo and that Tessaja also was born in the laboratory and is also a side product of the empires try to create a human nakuu hybrid
-the ship crashes and our heroes manage to jump off at the right time landing in the sea near the Libra
-tessaja decides to join the heroes
-In Libra which is under empires control the heroes are again almost caught but saved by Exod who is happy to see Taka alive as he found out the slaves he freed got caught because there seems to be a mule within the rebels he's working for
-he brings the to the rebel headquarter which is right under the empires nose in Libra and it turns out the rebel leader is Misato who after Taka and Riag disappeared fought against the empire
-they meet some more rebels like Tsuin who is the rebels inventor
-Leonas background gets unvolved
-there's an attack on Taka by one of the rebels but the rebel accidentially gets killed by getting crashed by the trap he wanted to kill Taka with
-because the heroes were almost caught noone is allowed to leave Libra and the heroes are stuck here unless they get a writing of one of the towns judges who are said to be more powerful and influential than the emperor
-after a reunion the heroes try to sneak into the central court because one of the judges is working with the rebels
-When the heroes arrive it turns out it was a trap and that the emperor is here himself and killed every judge to take over their power and blame the rebels
-the heroes would have been able to escape but due to Takas anger and will to kill the emperor they are caught and taken to court and sentenced to death by getting kicked into the bottomless snake pit in the center of Libra
-before getting kicked down Taka manages to free himself and almost scratch the emperor showing the emperor what a threat he is because Taka with all of his training as a kid and his body having been trained as a slave he's on a good way to surpassing even his brother
-nonetheless the heroes get thrown down and after falling for several minutes into the darkness the heroes begin to float and it turns out deep within earth there's a giant underground "bubble" like a whole world with three cities and several kilometers diameter
-beneath them is lava and the heat is somehow blocked by an invisible shield on which there is like a forest because lots of earth fell on most parts of this shield, theres like a completely new flora and fauna here
-also all people send here by getting thrown into the hole survived here and live here in the three towns separated into three factions
-it turns out exod grew up here and misato was thrown in here and they both found a way to get back up to the surface and then started the rebels
-it took them two month though to get back up
-however the heroes dont have that much time because the empire is already collecting troops near Libra ready to go to the nakuu world with their planet machine
-the heroes try again to go their dangerous passage but Vena feels some strange power calling her
-the heroes end up in a dungeon where there's another titan residing who is the one keeping this underground world alive
-after fighting him the helps them to get so high up that the can reach the surface in only a matter of days
-after reaching the surface the heroes go back to Libra and Taka fulfilles his promise to the guy in the prison to give something to his wife
-the sends them to a cave where there's a submarine whose captain that guy was
-with that the heroes and rebels start an attack on the planet machine to destroy it and reclaim the silver stone
-Tsuin, Misato, Leona and Tessaja join Arek, Taka, Vena and Exod
-The heroes get separated and part of the group is again running into a trap in the main hall where the silverstone is used as an additional power source to the planet machine
-Taka and Arek meet the emperor and Dai as they are about to begin the connection process, the empreror leaves showing that it all of their friends got captured
-Arek tells Taka to go and stop the emperor with the explosives they took along
-You play Taka and Arek in different scenes, Arek fighting Dai on the roof of the planet machine
-depending on the players choices with Taka and moving some platforms Arek dies or survives and later rejoins
-taka getting absorbed by his hate again trashes his opportunity to destroy the planet machine in time by rather attacking the emperor
-due to the explosion while opening the gate to the nakuu world the planet machine explodes with Vena almost dying by getting knocked unconcious and falling down a hole
-Taka realizes he is an idiot and risking his life he jumps after her saving her just in time
-When the dust unveils everyone is scattered near the entrance of the nakuu world
-there's a romantic scene between Taka and Vena where Taka almost tells Vena his feelings towards her but again misses the opportunity
-they quickly leave before the empires troops arrive
-the heroes find themselves in the nakuu world and manage to meet with a nakuu tribe before the empire does so
-the nakuu leader tells them about Vena's father falling in love with a human and thus having to leave
-he tells them about the whereabouts of the 3 angu stones and it turns out the last one was broken into 7 pieces, the seven silverstone
-the heroes try to find the first two before the empire does
-within the three temples reside the three most powerfull titans who tell them in cryptic words that they must not open the angu door
-after fighting the first one you get the fist angu stone returning to the village
-In this night Tsuin turns out to be the real mule in the rebels and also the inventor of the slave crowns and researcher of the empire who created ECHO and Tessaja
-he is also a nakuu who was once after the Angu stones to revive his dead wife and thus got his wings cut off and send to the human world
-The backstabs Exod and leaves with the 2 Angu stones and takes Vena hostage
-Taka wants to stop him but the emperor and Dai show up with several giant robots and stuff
-Vena tells Taka to stop and leaves voluntarily so that the heroes dont get killed
-They leave and Taka is about to give up before remembering Riag and gaining new hope
-They go to the next temple and find the second Angu stone only to get stopped by Dai and Tsuin. Tsuin leaves with the stone the hero fights Dai who in the end feels bad about his behaviour. Depending on if Arek survived he rejoins here and kills Dai himself
- The empire now has all Stones including the 7 silverstones and 2 angu stones (thus 3 angu stones) and the next day the want to sacrifice Vena and open the door
-in one last desperate attempt the heroes and the nakuu try to stop the empire. Taka and co riding on flying birds and Taka making his way to the gate seconds after the emperor stabbed Vena and opened the Angu gate
-Vena is dead and its too late for thim to tell here he loves her. In a desperate cry time stands still and the door is opening again as everything is turning black
-Taka stands before what has no name but is the creator of this world. "It" tries to find the reason behind its existance by experimenting with its powers and once created the titans who then created the contients, elements and stuff. The titans after finding out they've been created and fighting a war about what to do about with this knowledge about their creation locked out "it" with the Angu door. Only the most powerful survived in weakened states and every other titan died.
"It" tells Taka that the gate is merely a window for it to research coincidence and that it only calls those before it who are arousing its interest
-Taka and the emperor are somehow showing a lot of connection to it making them special
-The player gets to choose several actions affecting the end seqence (and theres lots of it)
-it makes it clear that it keeps everything in balance but still gives hime several options about what to do, how much power he wants to have
-depending on your choice I think in the best ending the scene returns to the world where the heros fight and are about to win when the emperor shows up and with a wipe of his hands kills dozens of nakuu
-he is keen on trying out his powers and severly injures Tsuin
-as he is about to kill the heroes Taka shows up and is as powerful as the emperor and you fight him (alone or with your friends)
-with godlike powers Taka revives Vena and depending on this question choices with "it" Taka dies or survives

Legend of the Silverstone [2k3][DynRPG][25h] Review

Hey thanks for the review :) Glad you somehow liked it. Nice to see some people still find this old project! Dunno if the download is even still working or not xD
Yeah I guess the project will probably never be finished as this 30h demo only showed ~40% of the plot and I have kids and I'm working full time but you never know :) (If you're interested in how it would have ended I can provide you with the rest of the story)
Also I'm working on a commercial game (spiritual predecessor of this game) which hopefully will be ready for a demo on steam in the next years :) Maybe if I put this on kickstarter and people like it I find some coworkers and get it done quicker. Furthermore I start a new work in march where I earn double the money so maybe I get so lazy that I just pay some people to do the tedious mapping xD

[RM2K3] Rpg Maker Maniacs Patch (for official version)

For those still interested in the patch I want to warn you because to me it seems the latest version of the patch on bingshans blog seems to contain a virus according to windows defender (dunno if its a false positive but I dont think so...)

[RM2K3] Rpg Maker Maniacs Patch (for official version)

Noticed some problems with the maniacs patch. Careful if you want to use the patch because for now...
...for me battles don't work if I have more than ~450 heroes
...you can crash the game if you want to use pictures in battle (32bit application 2GB Ram limit?)

edit: ok turns out increasing the number of heroes with the maniac patch causes this problem to and ram usage gets quite huge...

[RM2K3] Rpg Maker Maniacs Patch (for official version)

author=Mitsuhide_The_Vagrant
Does this count as a .exe hack?

I only ask because I started another topic asking about selling RM2k3 games with hacks (which I understand is not allowed). So, would using this also bar a game from commercial sale?


Hmm... I have the feeling that some years ago I read that with the new offical rpg maker 2003 every modding is allowed?
https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?threads/rpg-maker-2003-patch-eula.42021/

author=Enterbrain
RPG MAKER 2003 - PATCH
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So patching the exe looks fine to me?

Legend of the Silverstone [2k3][DynRPG][25h]

author=Firefly84
Gratulation, you reached that part of the game we betatesters still wait for updates. Don't try to push any boulder!
Safe only when you can move freely... (I saved during a complete freeze).


Well the beta test is over and not all testers experienced these freezes... unfortunately the game is on hiatus and I still haven't found the cause of the game freezing for some players... although it might be possible to find the error with some hours of work I guess correcting it might be impossible for now or at all...

author=aquatorrent
wait, you can push the boulder? i tried to press Z on all direction but nothing seems to be happening.
haha, yeah. i did that too. luckily, i got a backup save so i can restart from there. so.. is it a dead end? i mean.. are there some things that i can do to continue or something? thanks btw!


yeah sorry if you experience the same bug as Firefly... If I find the time I might come up with a fix but for now it seems as it is demo over for you... :(

Legend of the Silverstone [2k3][DynRPG][25h]

The riddle with the "three stones complete each other" hopefully isn't bugged... you have to switch to ghost rune mode and push the ghost stones into the middle... ^^; I hope that helps?

I guess I should really write a walkthrough for that dungeon or the full game... >.<
some help for whats to come:
staircase riddle -->
always enter the stairs you came from might help ^^;

riddle with three switches -->
left switch, right switch, upper switch ^^;

room with transparent underground -->
also check the pillars on the upper wall ^^;

mirror riddle -->
check your hair ^^;

doppelganger -->
lose the battle ^^;

Legend of the Silverstone [2k3][DynRPG][25h]

The statue looks towards the wall :) try activating the wall where its view touches the wall :)

Legend of the Silverstone [2k3][DynRPG][25h]

author=aquatorrent
i think i'm stuck again.. i'm in Kingstown and am about to enter Tower of Truth(?) with the prince, but when i enter the tower, the prince keep on saying "There we are... Now you lead the way! I follow when everything is safe!" all over and i can't do anything else. is it bugged or something?

It is indeed a bug... :(
here's a patch which should fix it... Put this in your LotS folder

Legend of the Silverstone [2k3][DynRPG][25h]

author=aquatorrent
ps: do you mean the boss? i already beat it so i'm fine, haha.


no ^^ actually I mean the next dungeon (and boss xD) in kingstown...

author=aquatorrent
i was sure i took the piece of wood! it seems that my memory fails me.. okay, so.. i climbed the rope and found an ancient building, but i can't seem to solve the puzzle. i can't change the stone either (it'll just remove the stone when i try to do so). is it somehow related to the ashes of deceased that i picked up in the desert?


the ashes of the deceased is just a forging item ^^ if you're talking about the ancient building to the right of the map where you can climb up the tree after using the piece of wood it's a sudoku game and after beating it, there should open a passage back downwards ^^;
if you're talking about the empty room with two treasures in the cave which can be accessed after balancing over in the oasis town (where you found the piece of wood) then that'S just an exit of the cave you can enter after blowing away the stones with dynamite ^^;

author=aquatorrent
i also found a cave in the west area that leads to a very long underground. there's a big monster at the end of the road, but i can't seem to do anything to it. i noticed that there's a jumping spot in the northmost area, but i can't seem to use it. the monster kept on dragging me into battle that has no enemies like every few seconds and it's quite annoying. what should i do? (or is this the cave that you meant as the one that can't be done at this part of the game?)


that's the useless cave ^^; even though the battle shouldnt be empty but there should be a giant monster ^^; maybe something doesnt work right ^^;

author=aquatorrent
and.. i can't seem to go down after i climbed with the piece of wood. do i have to beat one of the "puzzle" to return to go downstairs?


yes ^^;

author=aquatorrent
where is this oasis cave again? i tried talking to all people in the camp in the desert (or is this what you guys meant by hidden oasis? i'm not sure) but i can't seem to find any guy who sells dynamite. the item shop is even empty.


That guy is sleeping in his bed and can be hard to find ^^ its one of those two or three caves in the oasis town ^^

author=aquatorrent
ah. is the boulder used as a passageway to the boss area from the labyrinth's west exit? i didn't notice that you can't reach the west exit since the rubble is blocking the way (strangely you can go the other way around though haha)


the mouse will make the boulder drop and open the passage ^^