YEASTER'S PROFILE

-Persona 4. I don't remember the last game where I played it hours upon hours straight. Much better than P3.


-Innocent Sin. I've already read the script when it came out yeeeeears ago, but it's so much better to actually play it.

I'm playing Demon's Tower and a few other games, but I'm not sure if they're on this site.


I'll try to be finished by Feb 4th, but I doubt it. :(

Well, since you asked...



Would you mind reviewing this?

http://www.rpgmaker.net/forums/index.php?topic=2909.0

It's about an hour long. Not sure what your stance is on "comedy" games. This isn't OMGLOL funny, but it's lighter than Vanity.

The lack of direction is the #1 thing nearly every player complained about when playing Vanity, specifically finding the second dungeon, so thank you for pointing this out. For the full game I'm going to place colored arrows that will lead you to where you need to go (it's also the exact reason I started doing them for Mystery Man). I haven't put out a new version yet because the game itself is like 60& complete, so there kinda isn't a point... But this is an issue that have been addressed.

I will have a "faq sheet" about the elements for the full release as well.

I feel that Vanity has a good cast of characters that are sometimes let down by a narrative that, at times, is rushed.

I'm actually somewhat surprised no one else mentioned this, because it was definitely a concern of mine. When I first started Vanity, it was more or a glorified Shin Megami Tensei fan game of the SNES era, and they're writing was very..."here are the facts, here's the problem, deal with it." The characters didn't really have personalities that "popped" so to speak. It wasn't a very character driven RPG at all. The plot mainly centered around your actions of the consequences of said actions (and loads of other stuff, but that's a-whole-nother topic).

In the full game, after the demo scenes, you do get to see a lot more of the characters personalities. They speak a lot more, the narratives aren't as frequent, and the scenes are longer. They're much better developed, obviously. What the demo did was more or less introduce the characters, to give the player a feel of who these are and what goals they may have. The full game is going to expand on these, and depending on what you do, some of them could become your best allies, or your biggest enemies (or some of them could end up dead--it's all in what you did!).

And lastly, the graphical style was deffo a choice. I knew it could've potentially been an issue for certain players, but I didn't care, I still wanted to do it. I played a game that had an identical look, and I loved it so much that I wanted to see if I could do my own (here is a youtube video of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIyzOrvuS2A -- yes, I have weird taste!). I knew it was going to put off some people, but I didn't want to the exact same game that everyone else was making. It would've been easier to make a game like those for easy popularity, but I don't find them interesting to play. I wanted to do my own thing, and I like the way Vanity looks, so I'm okay with it. Not many people seem to mind at all, so I guess it wasn't going to be as big of an issue I originally thought it was going to be.

At the very least, I make sure that all of the backgrounds in 3D (anime-like backgrounds are ridiculously hard to find...and using real life backgrounds wouldn't look so hot--I have standards a little bit).

Thank you for the review, though. I thought it was great.

You don't ever want to give up. You just evaluate what you've done and try to make corrections. It does damages the soul :'(, but in the end, it makes you better.