SBESTER'S PROFILE

I've been an active member for quite a few years now. I started my RMN career by releasing the Eden Legacy Trilogy of games (each entry took 4 months of nonstop work) within one year, and I've gradually shifted to creating other games as well. I now have 3 flagship series: Eden Legacy, Fragile Hearts, and Mafiosi (being remade for commercial release as Crime Opera). I'm pretty much solely focused on the Crime Opera series of visual novels right now, as my band and job currently take up most of my free time.

Currently working on
-Crime Opera Trilogy (Mafiosi 1, 2, & 3 edited, with all original resources)
-It's a secret...
Crime Opera II: The Floo...
The kids have grown up, and they're becoming quite dangerous.

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The Rare/Obscure RM Games Request Topic

I may have a couple I didn't see on your rpgmaker list, chosenfew. I'll have a look at a few of my old cds and see if I still have them.

The Rare/Obscure RM Games Request Topic

You're surely welcome, Archeia!

Holy crap, chosenfew! Let's have those other lists as well please :)

Finished Games 2012

Officially giving up on MGS: The Twin Snakes. It is without a doubt the WORST game I've ever had the displeasure of playing/watching, and I hate you if you like it. And the creators should probably die.

Good bye good friend.....

I got these four fish when I first got my fish tank that were supposed to be like "starter fish", and I was told they wouldn't last more than a couple of weeks. Those buggers stayed alive for almost 5 friggin years. My parents kept insisting that I couldn't get a goldfish until the others died. By the time they died, I was sick of looking at the bloody thing and tossed it in the basement instead of getting new ones.

That had nothing to do with your loss, sorry. Just made me think about it.

The Rare/Obscure RM Games Request Topic

What are you thinking about right now?

Dude passed out on my lawn last night around 1:30am, 6 police cruisers showed up with an ambulance and a fire truck lol. Dude was fine, just drunk.

Under-Rated Games People Should Play

@m4uesviecr- The original Arc the Lad games are very different, but I'm sure you'll love them. I must have spent about 90 hours on the second one, which was great because the first game is only around 7-10 hours in total.

@flowerthief- Great to hear you're inspired by Sakura Taisen, I actually downloaded one of your games last week since I've been on a bit of a visual novel kick lately. And you're right about Yakuza controls, for some reason Sega has had a really hard time getting simple enemy targeting right, but they do improve with each game.

Under-Rated Games People Should Play

I have to admit, although I consider myself an Arc the Lad fan (loved the first 2), I hated 3 and never really liked Twilight. I bought Generations a few years ago, but never even played it since I had a bad taste in my mouth from before.

I have a few underrated series that I love to promote any chance that I get:



YAKUZA series! If you're a fan of mafia type films, these are 20-30 hour long ones with great characters, amazing stories, (shitty combat that eventually gets better as they go on), and sandbox RPG elements thrown in for good measure. They're making a fifth one now, which is said to be 2-3 times bigger than any entry before, and we need more fans so that Sega will keep localizing them. They may have killed those chances by localizing Dead Souls (a non-cannon zombie spinoff which is terrible in so many ways it's not even worth getting into). Note that these are only underrated outside of Japan.

The Gothic Trilogy. I've heard the fourth is awful, due to it being made by a different developer, but the first 3 games are the only PC RPGs I've ever played to really enthrall me. The worlds feel real, the NPCs and missions serve a purpose, the combat is stellar (albeit a little difficult to start), the level progression in completely open-ended, and best of all you can even go on a rampage killing virtually every NPC in the game (just don't save over your original file or you're fucked). Highly underrated by PC RPG enthusiasts.

Sakura Taisen 1-5. Although only the fifth one has been localized, PC versions of the first 4 are pretty easy to come by online and there are English guides for them on gamefaqs that are really well done. I've gone through the first two already, have the third one lined up. They're easy to play too, so getting by the japanese menus is no problem. Not so much underrated as underlocalized.

What Videogames Are You Playing Right Now?

Sakura Taisen 2.

Got the laptop set up right beside my desktop so I can read the translation guide as I go! Thrown about 11 hours into it so far, and loving it just as much as the first!

Death, blood and gore.

It wouldn't sound very good if we said we loved them either.