Arena of Suffering

"Arena of Suffering" is a fun mid-length JRPG/dungeon crawler hybrid made with RPG Maker MZ, featuring a light-hearted, self-aware story (although without dialogues between party members), a lot of quests and many well hidden secrets. The player gets to command four party members and can choose between nine different classes, which utilize a variety of useful skills (tip: Absolutely add a Pyromancer to your party). Battles are turn-based (front-view), and the well designed 10 or so dungeons feature a mix of fixed and random encounters. While dungeon runs can be repeated, it's usually possible to fulfill all objectives in one run, though the player can always return later to discover any previously missed secrets, especially since nothing in this game is permanently missable. Each successful first completion of a dungeon unlocks that dungeon's enemies in the eponymous "Arena of Suffering", where the player can kill these monsters to obtain tokens, which can be exchanged for very useful stuff (passive skills in particular). Unfortunately, fighting in the arena grants the player only EXP, not Gold (with one negligible exception), which makes it hard to afford the best equipment for all party members. On the other hand, the game is at least rather generous with its EXP/Gold rewards for completing quests. Sadly, monsters don't drop any items. This seems to be a deliberate design choice, but it makes the grinding (which isn't necessary to beat the game) a bit tedious at times. The maximum level is 99, but if you don't want to spend 25 hours to complete this game like I did, you can probably play through it in 10+ hours. Despite my nitpicks, I had a lot of fun during my playthrough, and the developer has been very helpful and quickly fixed the few bugs that had been present at the time of the game's release. JRPG players, especially those familiar with RPG Maker (MZ), won't regret giving this game a try.

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