AMERK'S PROFILE

Well, it accomplishes one thing really. It makes me appreciate the cliched rpg's a lot more after playing this. And now I realize just how dull an NPC's life can be.

And just realized this will be on Ace. Hopefully the scripting feature doesn't throw you too far off compared to RM2K3, but it's good to see more quality games coming out for Ace.

When you post a topic, expect that their will be criticism even before anybody plays the demo version or receives the completed game. What Mawk is stating is that instead of addressing the criticism here on this thread, you appear to be brushing it away, even while maintaining a calm, collective manner.

Your calmness is actually quite commendable when it's so easy to get defensive and rude in the face of criticism, but it can be taken to the opposite extreme as well, by appearing that you don't care enough to get into an arguement, and therefore don't acknowledge and address the concerns other than to suggest for people to try the demo. Keep in mind, even while the demo is free, people need to be sold on the idea of giving up their time to playing the demo. And if they see no reason to play the demo, they're not very likely to purchase and/or play the final product.

That said, the graphics don't look all that bad to me - a bit too dark, maybe, but not bad - and the overall design looks to be a more impressive game than the previous installment. Then again, I'm fairly easy to please, and others may have higher standards, especially when it comes to commercial games.

A year's worth of no posts, but I finally got around to this today. Odd game, a bit disheartening since I wanted more.

However, my interpretation of this: Caroline was a past love and she had died. Alexander went mad and was confined to a sort of mental hospital / monastery for therapy. Perhaps he was schizophrenic? That would explain the nun and peaceful surroundings, and other patients are there picking up a sort of therapeutic hobby, such as learning music.

Caroline's father blames Alexander and doesn't want anything to do with him. Likewise, Alexander is haunted by Caroline's ghost, and blames himself for her death.

Perhaps they were the lovers at the beach, and he was the one who was drunk and thinking himself "unworthy".

So I played this through yesterday. It was surprisingly short and sweet, but a nice setup for the next game.

Outside of the Font issue, the only time I hit an error (missing files I think) was when I was sneaking around the library, knocked over the bottle, and the guard came to investigate. The first time I chose for Owen to take care of the guard and that resulted in the game crashing. The second I chose Keith, and the game went on without any problems.

Other than that, it was an enjoyable 30 minutes, and had a decent amount of character building in such a short time.