OROCHII'S PROFILE

Generally speaking I think it's a decent game, it manages to be quite long considering the time for development, the custom graphics are great, a part of me kinda wished the characters were custom to match more with the environments, but the idea of the RTP people living inside a boardgame is nice.
Gameplay suffers due to RM2k3's mechanics, but generally the balance is alright. I wish characters had a bit more of uniqueness besides base stats. Main dude being the best damage dealer since he got two weapons. The rest are a bit samey. There's no skills afaik (still pending two more zones to traverse).
All in all, it's a cute game to play through. I believe it has good potential, it was obviously limited by time.

Piano did a thing and I, heck this is great. First, not only do I applaud the mechanics being well done, but also that the game has a satisfying conclusion. Month well spent.
On things I can critique, some alerts were unnecessary (bonk, you hit a wall, as text, every time you fail to punch a wall open with your skull by mistake). There's an unfortunate lag issue which hopefully gets solved. And maybe using wands should be optional, be used as the rest of items through a menu instead of automatic, just to control when and where you use them.

So here's the thing LBR :hehe:. I can't concretely explain why I liked this so much, I just enjoyed my time with it. I can enumerate things I liked. The jokes, the funny references. All things are light and chill. No time limits, no battles. Just. Get a silly premise, get a new job as French accountant (?), and solve quiz. About accounting in France.
Despite the unknown, the necessary clues were given, and I think the questions were fair. Idk, I liked it, it's just nice.
About things I'd change? Tilesets vs character graphics, they got a different resolution (the pixels in tilesets feel more stretched than in the character's).

CrazyBabi makes games I like. Balance throws me into using all the tools at my disposal, and it invites you to try breaking the limits of everything. In that regard I think battles are very well designed.
I don't remember what issues I had with it, if any. Like, at the last boss I fought against I had one of my characters die, and they received half experience, which is nice. It gave me a reason to not reset. Convenience is always a plus.

I wish this had more time on the cooker because just as Sorry! this was a neat concept. It's just RTP friends doing tropey stuff.
CRT filter is interesting, tho I really think the borders should be clamped and not repeat, so it gives more the feel of a TV screen. There was obvious nods to FF1 and FF2 especially on music and some map layouts. Couldn't figure out what the battle song was from, despite having heard other MIDI renditions of it before.

Too much piss. Ok I got issues with this game's sense of humor. I think I got a couple honest laughs but... piss.
Unfortunately there was an issue where the screen fade to black and never came back, and saving/reloading didn't help. ;-;
I am open to coming back to this (and finishing the rest of games I didn't finish while I'm at it).

I got nothing. This game is highlight.
The gameplay approach is more combat oriented, with some other smaller events sprinkled around for variety. I didn't find much use for the Scout ability specifically, besides giving me a bit of extra flavor text.
Visually the game is a treat, texts have nice formatting, althought I did find some of the item descriptions a bit random, like, sometimes flavor text was in purple, sometimes all text in same color. Sometimes it had longer gameplay notes in a smaller font, sometimes it was all the same format. That's probably my only uh not really complaint but observation. Dragon boy is best boi btw.
Definitely hope this gets finished.

Ok so... I'm not gonna sugarcoat it. This one? Nasty. This one? --hm. Like, vanilla coke. I can probably drink it.
My issue with this one, well, balance was fine. Lost one party member against the chimera boss but that was on my side as I could probably have prepared just a bit better, was losing my gas to the end of the battle. Pressure felt fine too. Bar felt eternal, but it might have lasted less than I thought, maybe.
The thing is... it felt alright. It felt like a decent RPG Maker game. Nothing more, nothing less. It might also been unfair because, heck, it came just after One Final Burial, which was quite a highlight indeed.
However credit to where credit is due. There was some nice polish on acquiring items. Equipment felt like could get very nuanced maybe, and unfortunately I didn't cover much of it. And the world gave me that sensation of openness, where I'm up to my own, looking for my own adventure. It's something many games don't do, because a more linear approach is usually much less convoluted to develop.