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White Pearl

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80% User Score Based on 55 reviews

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White Pearl is a single player role playing game with a fantasy theme. It was developed by ottreadev and was released on November 9, 2017. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

Enjoy this free RPGMaker JRPG game, 2 years in the making. White Pearl tells a story of truth and purpose, over a large main cast with interesting villains. With their destinies already written, will calamity be prevented a fifth time?

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Audience ScoreBased on 55 reviews
story12 positive mentions
grinding4 negative mentions
  • Engaging and emotional story with multiple party members offering varied perspectives and well-developed characters.
  • Nostalgic classic JRPG style gameplay with turn-based combat, exploration, and balanced difficulty that appeals to fans of old-school RPGs.
  • Strong developer support with regular bug fixes, updates, and attentive community interaction enhancing the game experience.
  • Game suffers from frequent crashes and bugs that can cause player progress loss and occasional freezing.
  • The story pacing and presentation can be confusing with sudden jumps between timelines and perspectives, making it hard to follow.
  • Inventory interface and some gameplay mechanics are clunky, including high random encounter rates and insufficient MP recovery options early in the game.
  • story
    45 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The story of "White Pearl" is a mix of praise and criticism, with many appreciating its depth, multiple perspectives, and nostalgic JRPG feel, while others find it confusing due to frequent party switches, pacing issues, and lack of clear direction markers. Although some find the plot engaging and emotional, others feel the narrative jumps abruptly and can be hard to follow without better quest tracking. Overall, it offers a solid and ambitious tale typical of RPG Maker games, but could benefit from clearer storytelling and improved pacing.

    • “The story and the characters are all well developed, we have the backstory of all of them, you could almost connect and feel the way they are feeling at the final moments of the game.”
    • “If you're looking for a top down, exploration, turn-based game, with a solid story, this is it for you.”
    • “The party split also helps to connect the story from different points of view while helping you try all characters that the game has.”
    • “The story progression is rushed and doesn't make sense; it jumps around way too much with backstory every 10 minutes. It could be a good story if the maker went back and fixed it.”
    • “The story jumps without warning from party to party, from present to past, making it hard to follow.”
    • “Poor pacing: sometimes the story suddenly halts and leaves you wondering what to do next, although the large world makes up for it at times.”
  • gameplay
    10 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The gameplay is generally praised for being fun, satisfying, and well-balanced with the story, featuring enjoyable mechanics and skill variety that keep turn-based combat engaging. Some criticisms include a restrictive save system and limited item availability early on, but overall it evokes a nostalgic and classic gaming experience.

    • “Great choice of skills and mechanics; it was so fun. I thought it would be boring to play a turn-based game in this day and age, but with variety, everything changes.”
    • “The writing is tight despite a few errors here and there, and the gameplay is fun and satisfying.”
    • “This is a great game with an enjoyable story and gameplay.”
    • “It's poor gameplay, especially the save system; you can't save without finding a hexagram symbol, and in the first mission, you can't buy any MP restorers or antidotes.”
    • “Gameplay is decent, and graphics-wise, it is okay too.”
    • “The mechanics, look, feel, and even some of the music took me back to sitting in bed with my SNES for countless hours going through a classic journey.”
  • music
    10 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The music in the game is generally praised for its quality, variety, and fitting atmosphere, with high production value noted by several users. However, some criticize it for being unoriginal or derivative, specifically accusing it of directly copying Final Fantasy tracks. Overall, reception is mixed but leans positive, recognizing both its nostalgic appeal and occasional shortcomings.

    • “The music is really good and it fits the game perfectly.”
    • “The music itself is extremely varied and I'm impressed with the production value. If this game was fully commercial with original music like in the style heard in the game, I imagine the creator would be very successful. Still, with what the game is, I am glad he made it.”
    • “I was right, the mechanics, look, feel, and even some of the music took me right back to sitting in bed with my SNES for countless hours going through a classic journey.”
    • “Music stolen from http://game.”
    • “This game just rips off Final Fantasy music, and I mean the exact songs, absolutely disgusting.”
    • “Music 6 out of 10”
  • graphics
    7 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The graphics receive mixed feedback, with some appreciation for the artwork and visuals, but criticism regarding overall quality and text clarity, especially in fullscreen mode. The graphics are described as basic and could benefit from improvement to enhance the gaming experience.

    • “I love the artwork and the story is pretty good.”
    • “Gameplay is decent and graphic-wise is okay too.”
    • “The concept and the lore are pretty good; however, the graphics (especially the text) could be improved quite a lot. When the game isn't in fullscreen mode, the graphics look better, but in fullscreen mode, the graphics could be improved.”
    • “Graphic quality is like a very early game, as if the graphics were just discovered, especially when you find items and text clues.”
    • “Graphic quality is like a very early game, as if the graphics were just discovered, especially when you find items and text clues.”
    • “Gameplay is decent, and graphics are okay, but nothing impressive.”
  • grinding
    5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Grinding in the game is minimal and well-balanced, with plenty of side quests that make the experience enjoyable rather than tedious. Difficulty encourages grinding but rewards players with rare item drops useful for crafting, and there are convenient recovery points to aid in this process. Overall, grinding feels purposeful and rewarding.

    • “My only advice is to save often, but besides that, this game is much better balanced than most of this kind, with plenty of side quests, and difficulty helps to encourage grinding, but is also rewarding with the rare item drops that can be used in crafting.”
    • “- Recovery points for free healing and the best spots for grinding.”
    • “One thing to note is that the grinding is made minimal.”
  • humor
    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The humor in the game is light and well-integrated, adding occasional levity to dialogues and complementing the overall storytelling without overpowering other elements.

    • “Dialogues also flow well with some humor from time to time to liven up the situation.”
    • “Decently challenging combat and leveling, cool music, interesting story with a bit of humor.”
  • emotional
    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    Users find the emotional aspect of the game surprising and impactful, noting that while the story initially feels conventional, it evolves into a deeper, more meaningful experience that sparks strong interest and anticipation.

    • “Interesting story (there's a whole other story in White Pearl that I can't wait to see!). The story seems really by-the-books, but later on it gets really deep and emotional - I was very surprised.”
  • stability
    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative

    The game exhibits some stability issues, with occasional bugs that affect gameplay, but it remains generally playable despite these imperfections.

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White Pearl is a role playing game with fantasy theme.

White Pearl is available on PC, Windows and Xbox.

White Pearl was released on November 9, 2017.

White Pearl was developed by ottreadev.

White Pearl has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked this game for its story but disliked it for its music.

White Pearl is a single player game.

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