SHINNESSTEN'S PROFILE

author=bicfarmer
4 dungeons, one for each season, and one additional final dungeon. This RPG uses the standard ATB but you are actively encouraged to abuse it and guard in the middle of an enemy's attack to reduce damage. That's interesting.

Story is vague and almost nonexistent. Only 1-2 characters speak in english for the entire game, and they sounded like ancient roman philosophers so I didnt really pick up on what they were trying to communicate. I only got a normal ending so maybe more story exists beyond the deep void.

The dungeons are all designed similarly, there is a boss and flower that represents a shop in each dungeon, except the final one which has several bosses. The difficulty is pretty fair. There is a crash upon meeting the second to last boss due to a missing file (graphics\battlebacks\senaclouds.png). Also some status effects appear to be heavily favoured over others. I guess I should also mention what strats I used.

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Since this is an ATB RPG, I assumed agility would be OP so I went hard on agility buffs. I don't think it was as blatantly OP in this game as it was in other rpgmaker games that used ATB. Crow's heal spells werent very strong either. So I went with HP drain and item effect x2 for the robot. I had MP drain and debuffs for the third party member (almost every boss can be debuffed) and agility buff for the last guy. I really wanted the 1/4 damage guard because I guard alot in fights but it seemed the dev knew how OP those passives could be and had them be prohibitively expensive. Didn't feel like grinding for that even though I could get 4 souls in one turn just farming off the bats near the alcea. I died the first time on the second to last boss but I got past him when I opted to take out the armor first.

None of the passwords appear to work, so I'm not sure how those medals are supposed to be used. Anyway, this is a decent RPG that uses slightly different mechanics than the regular RPG's. Give it a go if you want to try something nonstandard and dont care much for storylines.

Hey, thanks for the review!
So far not everything has been implemented, that's why the medals are currently worth nothing. (I know I said that the game released, I was just too excited to share the core game.) I'll add that in the future as a final update, along with Hard Mode stuff.

Also that a file was missing is beyond confusing to me, since the background stuff should've been there this whole time. (that folder existed for months and I remember I never touched it, but I guess something went wrong :X)
And downloading this back and decrypting it shows me it still exists, actually... lol, I dunno.

But huge thx for giving this a fair shot!

Edit: Forgot to mention how there's also a fair chunk of optional content after the game ends. In all honesty, it's the same length as the regular game, but with lots more grinding for little stuff and piecing together environments and secrets. I think the story, funnily enough, begins after the game ends. I mean, I kinda decided to do that intentionally and I'm sticking with it because it looks nice for me personally and it throws you nicely in a messy situation in later entries.
I guess it would be kind of spoilery to say this, but this entire series will be dedicated to hard core players, who want to see everything. It's buckwild and I know it turns a lot of people off, but if anyone is willing to go hard, I'll gift them hard back with something trippy to enjoy... if that makes sense. lmao

author=Gredge109
This was pretty awesome. Makes me want to check it out.

Edit: Meant to be a reply to your blog post, "Just watch it", but I'm tired.

Thx! :D Been taking good care of the Game since forever and it's time it get's finished this Year.