NURVUSS'S PROFILE

Edge Maverick. What the fuck.

This is just my opinion, but they're really bad games. With the exception of the third game, the battle system is overly complicated and random encounters take forever to beat. Worse still, the writing is shockingly poor. Xenogears and Xenoblade are miles ahead of the Saga trilogy.


but yknow, video games are subjective and i have terrible taste.

Have you ever played SaGa Frontier 2? There's a few chapters based around the character Gustav's apprenticeship as a blacksmith. They're very brief, mostly of his master teaching him how to forge a blade. There's an action chapter in which he goes to try out his new sword fighting slimes in a cave and ends up fighting some smugglers or something. I think that's probably all you need.

If you're going to make this the first 1/4 of your game, I suggest adding more bits than just apprenticeship scenes. Show us the character's life outside of this.

I don't mean to nitpick but you're very quick to turn to the forums with multiple topics about the game you're working on. I suggest putting some hours into the game first, then sticking to one topic and posting when you really hit a stumbling block. I encourage you to try finding a solution or seeing what works on your own and then hitting up the community when you really need help or refinement tips.

All of the PS2 Shin Megami Tensei games are available now. I recommend all of them, but speaking objectively, SMT Nocturne and Persona 3 are the ones to play. I like the Raidou duology a lot, but they're both very clunky.

PCEngine (Hu-Card): Makai Hakkenden Shada
This was a short action RPG from Data East that borrowed liberally from Falcom's Ys I & II. Based on the 19th century serial novel Nansou Satomi Hakkenden by Takizawa, it's set in the Sengoku period and you play as a samurai. I don't know that much about the game's plot. The game itself isn't very original, borrowing its engine and many of its puzzles from Ys. But it has some very neat bosses, like a giant frog you attack by walking right up into its open mouth. It also has surprisingly good music.