SEVENS_ACE'S PROFILE

author=Corfaisus
"A romance old as time." I immediately flashed back to Beauty and the Beast. Is there any way to reword that to make it sound more high stakes fantasy and less Disney?

lol, I got a sense of that once, but I was intending for the google definition below:

2.
a quality or feeling of mystery, excitement, and remoteness from everyday life.

But then again, looking back at that segment , I could trade
"A romance old as time" for "A crusade into the unknown" .... "to save a princess from the shadows"

author=liberty
The reason we're telling you this isn't to criticise but to help - we've all done the slowly timed text dump starters before and we all cringe a bit at them looking back.

Thanks, I actually purposely slowed their timings for slower readers and also for moving images I want to add to the background at a later time. I have edited and added new text in the animation since my first post, for a faster experience, so I'm going with you all on that tip.

author=liberty
They're slow and bland and instead of getting you interested in the world and it's history, they force you to break away from the character and their story

Yes, this intro is intending not to focus mainly on the character or his past. Like I said it's a message from a different character, regarding an attack. Like final fantasy 7, you know next to nothing about the main character at the beginning.

author=liberty
If someone feels like the know where the plot is going in the first 10 minutes, unless it's super interesting, they will be less likely to want to play the game because they know where it's going.

But they don't, they only have knowledge of the impending attack from an enemy. This kind of story you can find on most classic rpg cases on the back, correct me if I'm wrong.

=liberty
Give the player a chance to get to know the character and -care- about them before you go shoving them into the cooking pot, OR go all in and have the game start with them already in the middle of the cooking pot and being melted.

Final Fantasy 7 was successful at doing it the same way I am.

=liberty
There's a lot of ways to introduce a world and conflict without dumping a bunch of text at the beginning.

yea... I haven't decided yet, but I may have a short gameplay intro before, leading up to the movie intro dream/experience.

@Pancaek You cant please everyone. I believe a good intro dialogue is crucial for a game. Yes the text in some scenes are going by slowly because like I said, I want to use Adobe After Effects later to add still images to the backgrounds I have shown... Characters, Scenes, etc. that fade in and out with the dialogue. So the player won't actually be waiting if those are added in.

Nice pumpkin haha. I like this tileset alot, particularly the trees. This reminded me to start on my bush sprites. Overall cool graphics and placement.

Thanks alot, yea maybe if I edit the black line work a little they might be more subtle in a way. Those purple shadows are going for sure, I tried to get RMXP's transparency feature to work with it but I got nothing.