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 King's Aces

Should be Aces, not Ace's. ;)

Magequest I (Version 3.0)

I started playing this and just realized I had started playing it before. Twice lol. Guess that's the downfall of rtp games with generic titles, but I will say I do enjoy some aspects of it. I think the dungeons are kinda fun to romp through, and I have a soft spot for RPGs that just kinda start without much direction or without cutscenes of the hero babbling nonsense with characters that don't matter. It gives it a real "roleplaying" feel, very oldschool, which I like.

I'm going to attempt to review it (and hopefully beat it). The game has one really shitty ragequit review, and one half decent ragequit review, which is kinda misleading and not giving the game a fair chance. There are some decent aspects to the game, despite the obvious inexperience you had at the time of its creation.

I would also like to commend you on all the changes you've made to it over the years. There were a lot of complaints here that I never ran into with the new version (i.e. slow walk speed) so my playthrough has been rather smooth so far.


EDIT: Submitted my review! I'll be sure to check out the sequels as well.

Fragile Hearts

Thanks so much for that awesome bit of feedback! That's 2 people who have made accounts just to comment on this, haha!

I really appreciate the commentary about the balancing, and I'm going to use this as a guide when fixing it up for the next version. The reason for the imbalances basically boils down to the fact that there are so many ways to play this game and make it easy for yourself in the end, or some people just skip all the battles completely and make it really difficult for themselves. I can definitely look into making Haddy's spells better though, and perhaps I should do something about the ability items in Watra as you suggested.

One thing I want to say about the ending (and I should probably make a blog about it), there's a bit of a problem happening right now where I'm at in the development of the sequel. That is, the choices you make don't really have any affect on the game until episode 4, and that's... well, not very nice for players who want to experience both sides of the coin. I'm looking at different ways to fix this and add in extra goodies and whatnot so that nothing is a total waste of time. Nothing is set in stone on this issue yet, but I assuredly will find some ways of dealing with it soon.

Anyways, thanks again for the post. I will be sure to refer to it when making adjustments!

MageQuest 3: Alien Planet (Version 1.2)

Congrats on completion of a trilogy! I'm gonna try these out this week!

Fragile Hearts

Wow, you're fast!

There are pets you can buy in episode 4, but that's about it right now. I plan to expand it to include a bunch more of them later, it just wasn't something I was able to do yet because of time constraints. In the future, I hope to be able to put in a sort of "capture" system in battles ala pokemon, hopefully by the next release. I suppose I forgot to mention that in my latest blog though :P

Thanks for playing!

Fragile Hearts

Sounds like an rtp error. Do you have rm2k3 installed on your computer already? If not, you'll need it (RMN won't let me include it in the download). If you already have it, there may have been an installation error of some sort, so I'd just try installing it again. If you still have problems let me know and I'll see what I can do!

Vacant Sky Awakening: Paradox Prince

Is this the official Vol.2?

Fragile Hearts 2: Shattered Dreams

Thanks so much! I'll do my best to make sure it's a worthy successor!

Fragile Hearts 2: Shattered Dreams

Woo! New title screen!

Fragile Hearts

Thanks! I'll make sure to fix up the end boss battle for the new version as well. I've had a couple complaints about him now.

I've never heard of Errant story, to be honest. The Haddy/Gulliver and Haddy/Fergus relationships were inspired by a number of well known anime sources, namely Slayers, Full Metal Panic, and Familiar of Zero. If anyone gets a chance to watch FOZ, it's pretty funny, with the same style of humour as this game.