THENECROMANCER'S PROFILE

At least it shows that this game is as bad on the inside as it is on the surface.

btw, the developer will probably just tell us that we're wrong because we don't understand the comedy or the concept of the game. he'll just say there is nothing wrong with the game(i've already heard this).

So I played this game. It's not good, even for a retro game.

I was really digging the graphics/music/and some sounds, but that's not the issue. It is so horribly unbalanced. Your too weak and don't get enough money. If that was fixed this game would be playable. As it stands it's a chore to play. I gained 3 levels and dealt 1 more point of damage and was dying just as fast. Have you ever played an RPG where the first monsters are as strong, if not stronger, than you? Plus I couldn't afford to buy a new weapon. My skill does 1 more damage than a normal attack and I ran out of MP. The healer costs a whopping 25g! which if you do that more than once your a sucker. You'll waste your money. The only way to really survive long enough to get strong and build up your money is to just mash attack and buy 5gp potions. That makes it weak and boring.

I have a feeling Sailerius died because he spent all money on healing and just got too far away from safe zone near weak monsters. Also, when your in battle there is an empty space at the bottom of the list and there is no arrow to indicate more options. It's totally understandable how he missed items/flee.

The biggest turn off for me was the battle backdrops. It was effin default colorful dungeon backdrops. That ruined any sense of "retro". Default game over screen too, would it have killed you to make a white background with the words game over in black pixels? If you make a retro game then EVERYTHING has to be retro, you can't pick and choose. It killed it.

The dialogue was weird. I can see how it was trying to play off the rescue princess cliche but it was trying too hard and to me it just fell flat.

I had no problems with mapping.

I'd give this a 2 at best.

Make a sequel. Use the same graphics and music. Just put more focus into having a better fighting system and this would be a game I would look forward too. It's just too much work to actually progress, it should be fun.

From the looks of it, the only RTP thing I saw was the game over screen and backdrops. Any Rm2(k3) game that doesn't use RTP should simply place any of the RTP graphics you actually want to use should be placed in the actual project folder. That way you can exclude the need for RTP, it's as simple as opening the projects rpt_rt.ini file and changing FullPackageFlag=1 to FullPackageFlag=0. That way your game is less than 10mb instead of over 20mb.

damn dude..its amazing that are able to put so much work into game making with no home. respect+1

Actually, I'm more like Captain Lazy. I didn't do my research, sorry about that.

I won't go into everything you mentioned, as most of it is directed towards Sailerius(*edit:and he already posted). I wasn't intending to get into a battle with you.

The filesize probably didn't factor into the review score and yes, the font thing was his fault(but raises a good point about the creator telling the player about it). He stated he doesn't have experience with 2k3. The filesize wasn't that big actually and was probably just a suggestion. It is pretty easy to exclude the RTP in 2k3.

'random encounters every 2-3 steps and mashing enter '
'I found I was making less money from battles than I needed to purchase healing items to replenish the HP/MP I spent in the fight.'
'Not only can you not escape from battles, you also can't use items in battle!'

These were the main points I got from gameplay, which sounds horribly unbalanced as opposed to challenging/old school. If you can't item heal in battle, then you would have to have a spell (or autoheal after battle). If you only find spells that means you don't start off with a way to heal in battle. That's a bad idea and I never played a gb/nes RPG with those problems.

I can't really speak on the other points, I'd have to see/hear the game. Which I might now just to see what it's like.

I don't feel that a review score has to be a sum of all parts, because in some cases each section can be relatively low and still the game could get a decent score. Or the opposite, like here, where the score is lower than the sum.

I don't really see this as biased. Your defending of this game could be considered biased. Maybe?

About your review, why don't you just copy the text of your review, delete it, then paste it in a new review and give it some stars. Now that there are other reviews with stars, the name of your review won't trump seeing a low score on the game page.

It's not much different than a prejudice to RTP graphics. A prejudice to RTP is similar to a prejudice to FF6 gfx, whereas a prejudice to rips is like a prejudice to graphics all together.

Then if it's not RTP and it's not rips that only leaves custom. We shouldn't expect custom graphics just to give a good score in that department.

However, I agree that the mere presence of rips shouldn't be the issue. Only if they are used bad. I never played this so I dunno.