AETHERS'S PROFILE

You are welcome but do take it with a grain of salt. LOTS of it perhaps.

Yeah, it's a pretty fun game (Great work!)

I submitted a review and I did list a few things that can be fixed. But those are pretty minor.

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Sleeping Wind.... Dude... from what I can tell, you've been using rm forever since GW, and YOU JUST NOW noticed this? Are you for real man?

Haha yeah, to be honest though, I am still learning things with Rm2k3. Sure, I can do basic functions and some coding, but some of the stuff I am still unsure of (there are a LOT of commands I never tried in the editor yet... or these shotcut buttons obviously!)

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Helpful buttons in 2K/3:
SHIFT during messages
CTRL to walk through objects
F1 in database for small hints on usage
F5 during play to change play size (try it out. Doesn't change window size, just how the window fills)
F9 during play for variables and/or switches
F12 during play to restart

Um, any I'm missing?

Welp, I only knew CTRL, Shift (recent) and F4.

FFFFFF F9 is awesome. Should make a hell lot of testing easier; WHY DIDN'T I NOTICE THIS SOONER.

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Long as we're talking about that, let me just say that I really despise "instant" messages. There is absolutely no incentive to read them when you can just rat-a-tat-tat skip them. (and it's soo enticing to skip them) Whenever given a choice (in pro games) I usually pick "fast", but never instant.

obviously you don't know how to play rpgs

furthermore, dear developers: if it's enticing to skip merrily through the dialogue rather than read it, there is something horribly wrong with your game's writing.

Well... I read pretty fast myself. As such, I like instant messages; but that doesn't mean I choose that exclusively. All I can say that in some games like Paradise blue or Kentona's Hellion, I would LOVE instant message when they show you get X amount of AP or "you deciphered a high level scrolllll GJ !" (sorry kentona!) for the 99th time (try buying 99 high end scroll if you are bored and press F5. That would certainly take a while).

...you know maybe I found this because I subconsciously thought that the message would go faster if I press shift - like you know, cause that makes you run in the game.

I implement AP points myself (you got a whoopin X AP message after battle) so instant is a good way for this imo (or battle animation like in TTB).

As for story... I don't like to skip, but I agree if you think that Speed 0 and Speed 1 in RM is A HUGE GAP (i.e. speed 1 is too slow, but speed 0 is too fast for pacing). I think this is a reason why people use 1 instead of the default, but sometimes it gets kinda annoying (especially if the dialogue is pretty bad). If it takes too long without action I am starting to get edgy too. That's when I want to skip things. Also during testings.

And thanks to all who contributed, I didn't realized that RM have these kind of features.

Been playing it for a while now.

I like the D&D skills and actually implementing them in my project. I hope you don't mind me taking a few pointers here and there.

However, the deciphering for scrolls and bag is a bit tedious imo. I can understand the bag/chest and it doesn't really bug me, but phew, buying 99 high level scrolls for 50 gold and deciphering all of them sure takes a while! (99 message boxes saying "deciphered high end scroll" over and over again). Perhaps you can cut this down if you ever make another one like this?

I am going to try generica next, but it doesn't have OOBS......

Also, I can't say I really like the Old school graphics. Sure they grew on me later, but well..... but then again, this is nitpicking, I guess you just like to use them.

I played this game a few weeks ago and I think this review summed my thoughts (and hate for the repair and hack skill) well.

One thing I remember most is that there is a quest where you need to turn off some explosives and one of them can only be deactivated if you have A CHAFF GRENADE ON. Took me a lot of tries and reading the event coding to finally figured that out.