ANYON175'S PROFILE

Okay, in my opinion there a lot of things that just don't add up.

-How is Blurred Line at Level 5 of obscure? Bluerred Line is known even in Non-English communities and, even if you count how known it is only here in RMN, it has 26k downloads. How is that obscure?
-How do you create a list like this where there is no Phylomortis?
-How The Way is level 6?

I believe the list could have been made for the perspective of someone new to RPGMaker or just missed out some things. I think it was a really cool idea but really forgot/missed some important games, some that we even talk about in the Segnin's Old RPGMaker Games Thread.

EDIT: Okay, so this list is made for the mainstream that is outside any community of RPGMaker, but my point still stands in regards to The Blurred Line and The Way. If they are 'almost unknown' at least they should be in the same level. And Ara Fell had a remake recently so it should be a little more than the current level imho.

EDIT 2: Also, you added InflamationQuest which is japanese right? Why is there no Seraphic Blue?

author=dethmetal
I just want to take a second to say THANK YOU DARKEN for creating your wonderful blog. RPG Maker Historia is a serious trip down memory lane. Back when I first discovered RPG Maker 2002, I downloaded and played EVERYTHING I could get my hands on. For a few years, I played more RPG Maker games than commercial games. I wish I had my hard drive from back then because it would be a treasure trove.

If there's one game I've always wanted to know more about the history of, it's Romancing Walker by Flare. I can find next to nothing about the development of this game on the internet. Where did Flare originally post it? Is Flare still around? I remember hearing that this game was a translation of a Japanese game - but I think this is just a rumor, because there's no evidence of a Japanese version, and all the switches and such are labeled in English. Anyone have any more background about RW?

Hey dethmetal,

Sorry I took so long to reply to you, although you probably already found the answer to your question, but here we go.

I made a post about this on the thread here. I basicly mentioned eplipswitch`s post about the Romancing Walker Japanese version (also known as `With Walker`), and that rm2kfanboy (the guy that basicly translated and remade the graphics of the original game) aparently posted in the same thread. He also mentioned that there was at some point a Romancing Walker 2 (Or With Walker 2) in development and that he even managed to play it, but he aparently lost this version of the game because that was on an old computer he had.

I also uploaded the japanese version here and you can play it through EasyRPG without the Japanese RTP if I`m not mistaken. Although you probably need some japanese reading skills to play this, so good luck.

Oh, and I also have an old link from the Internet Archive that I think it is the old (or what is left of it) FLARE`s homepage. Hope that helps you out.

EDIT:
Some Screenshots from the game:

Hey guys,

Just reuploading Shadows of Evil 4.0 as requested by IllusioMan.

If anyone else still needs a game reuploaded I'll see if I can help. Just send me a message to my mailbox and I'll answer as soon as I can.

I`m also still looking for the latest QHeretic`s Exile demo, mine has 80 maps. If someone else has a more recent version please do share it.

author=Darken
So basically I realize a lot of the games on the list barely have any coverage or descriptions. I started a project to address that, the goal is to give every game on the archive list some screenshots, a written impression and a 10-30ish minute youtube video. I've made this a fairly automated process, but I still need to make it a regular habit.

https://rpgmakerhistoria.home.blog/

https://twitter.com/RPGMHistoria
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzy0DxCmuzIUT2BkCOW2Jhg

It's all condensed in a wordpress blog mainly, but the main goal is to document as much as I can so that they become more permanent to google and general web crawlers. We'll see how it goes.

Wow, that`s really awesome Darken. There are a lot of games to cover of course, but I`m sure these great games you`ll be covering will not be forgotten.

I myself have been trying to upload some games on RMArchiv and when I can I also upload a (silent) walkthrough of these games on my channel. I made little progress so far, but one by one at least I show little bits of these games for those who are interested.

Good luck though, because there sure are more games than Archivists.

Wow, so many cool magazines.

Well, here in Brazil I had access to some very cool magazines too.

CD Expert had some really cool RPG magazines, some of them were smaller though:



Another cool magazine was the Digerati's RPG series:





There was also the Digerati's 'Top Games' Series:


The coolest of the Top Games magazines were the 'Top Games Surpresa', of which had a ton of variety of games, and even when it was just RPGs, it came not only with JRPGs but some were CRPGs / Western RPGs too.