Legionwood 2: Rise of the Eternal's Realm

“Most RPG Maker games tend to look almost the same, have the same mechanics, and heavily outdated visuals, sound, and overall design. A good story and pace from the start or some unique content might help save a handful of RPG Maker games, but this one is not one of them.”

“The gameplay is solid but nothing out of the ordinary.”

“(I realize that you added a difficulty slider to the options menu, and it works, but the difficulty goes from laughable on casual, to randomly deadly on normal, to survival? ROFLCOPTER! on purist. It seems that you are using a random troop member replacement script for battles, which results in some battles where you must escape or die. Period. If you aren't using a random replacement script, you must enjoy pissing off your customers. While I can accept this in a scenario where battles are visible, and I have at least a chance to 'choose' them, the default random battle mechanic makes it downright infuriating at times. For example, the difficulty spike in normal mode inside the second dungeon/cave was enough to make me rage quit for the day.)”

“The soundtrack as a whole does its job well and provides even more atmosphere to the areas and battles of the game.”

“It's like if Chrono Trigger's soundtrack met Secret of Mana and decided to go HD with real instruments.”

“I found the music and sound effects to fit the theme of the game nicely.”

“It's so tedious, takes away exploration, and denies the player the natural feeling of making progress by exploring.”

“Unfortunately, the grinding isn't fun at all and the story is not interesting either.”

“Unlike in Skyborn, you can't see the monsters - battles occur at random moments and, unlike in Deadly Sin 2, you aren't able to 'turn off' monster respawns, so any kind of walking and/or exploration is tedious as it is continuously interrupted by fights.”

“Most RPG Maker games tend to look almost the same, have the same mechanics, and heavily outdated visuals, sound, and overall design. A good story and pace from the start or some unique content might help save a handful of RPG Maker games, but this one is not one of them.”

“The story seemed like it might have had potential, but recurring graphical bugs and various QA issues made me lose interest in the game, and I'd recommend not spending money on it either.”

“The graphics in this game look similar to the RTP, but they are modified in various ways.”

“Out of the six main characters, only two of them have any time at all to see any real kind of character development.”

“Although I was able to analyze the battle mechanics and world design to quite some depth, I also pointed out weaknesses in the character development and how information about the world was conveyed to the player.”

“The character development showed similar problems - the main party members were able to supply the player with large quantities of information to keep the story moving, but showed little personality. I was convinced that some characters lacked any personality traits whatsoever; Felix frequently made snide comments or light jokes, and Lionel showed some signs of mourning for Clara, but Aelia and later Marcus showed no detectable emotions or character.”

“There is a lot of replay value in just trying out differently developed characters.”

“That also adds to the replay value.”

“Some downed characters are buggy; the sprite changes appearance depending on the direction you move. If you're using RPG Maker, remember kids: never forget to use 'direction fix' on downed sprites.”

“The game crashes frequently, making it nearly impossible to progress without losing progress.”

“I encountered several glitches that caused the game to freeze, forcing me to restart my console.”