Arevan

It is difficult to stand out from a busy and crowded field of the old style rpgs these days, but Arevan manages to do that very thing with considerable ease. A well told and deep story, a mix of fun puzzles, and a different system of skill acquisitions give this game a different sort of feeling that is interesting, involving, and keeps you constantly alert as to exactly what is going on. As with all rpgs the story is important and fundamental to keeping the player interested enough to move forward. And this game has that quality that begins with the young prince of Arevan (Maurean) being called on by his father to find out what exactly is going on with a series of murders in Arevan and surrounding kingdoms. And so Maurean sets out to recruit his party and explore the world to solve the mystery. And a great thing with this game is that each location gets better and more complex ---- the action intensifies, and this gives you that "one more scene, one more battle" feeling. Plus, there are a ton of side quests that will keep you very busy. Skills are learned not by leveling, but, instead, by consuming "skill pills" which can be bought, found, stolen, or by defeating foes throughout the world. And there are an abundance of these pills. It is up to the player to determine when and how and by who these skills should be used. Of course this adds to the fun of determining how to move forward in the game ---- there are multiple ways to strategize, which adds a lot to the replay value. I thought the art was fine, especially the unique monsters. And the music is a very big positive, with different tracks everywhere that I've never heard anything similar to before. So don't let the first easy maze/dungeon fool you ---- it will get more challenging and involving as you move forward with lots of "a-ha" moments that add to the great fun of the game. I think it's a great addition to any library of these 16-bit style rpgs.

I normally try to play RPGs longer before writing a review, but this has a lot going badly: 1) the walking around animation is jerky, which is really frustrating 2) even with battle animations off it takes too long to do anything in battle, and it's horrible with animations on 3) sound is in really short clips, that have jarring seams where they loop 4) poorly translated from another language 5) I only saw a few areas, but everything I saw was overly spread out. the first combat area was a huge complicated maze with only a few battles (no random encounters), so I just spent a long time following the right hand rule until I eventually found the other exit. 6) many visible seams in textures make areas somewhat confusing to navigate, and make them look very bad, even for RPG maker games

This game... this game... if either microsoft, or the developer ever came back to this, I would easily give it a positive review. The problem is... this game has an absolutely wonderful story and battle system. I can easily rejoice in those aspects of this. The problem is, that this game for some reason as Windows OS has updated over the 7+ years that this game has been made, that one of them screwed with how this game operates. Meaning that if you play it nowadays there's an unbelievable amount of LAG. It is visibly jarring how bad it is in this game. But I had this on my list of stuff I needed to complete, and I did. It's just a shame since if it wasn't for the lag this game would easily score a personal 9.5/10. The game's story is THAT good. Sure the first act is a little disorienting (I went to the second kingdom first and wasn't able to get the party member there yet), but by the end this game is FUN. With lots of twists and turns. The super intriguing thing imo though is that in order to fight the final boss, you need to get the BAD ending, and I'm not making that up. It's a first that I've seen.

As much as I like rpg games like this I just [u]CAN'T[/u] recommend it at all. I know I didn't play it for a long time and neither am I the type that gives a negative review fast but I have the same problem as most of the others who already gave a negative review. - It's just way too slow to even enjoy playing it, so I never even got into the story before giving up. I really looked forward to playing it as I love rpg games like that but it's plainly pointless to even try! Sorry, if that sounded harsh but it's my honest opinion. Hopefully, there will be a fix for this even though I don't think that will happen at all. On a side note: Maybe it works on a better PC/Laptop without any problems but the game requirements shouldn't be an issue in the first place.

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Моё предвкушение чего-то блёклого и вторичного было уничтожено богатством палитры и виртуозностью художника. Это полотно, на котором с любовью выписаны все лучшие черты жанра и рассматривать его огромное удовольствие. 10/10

had to refund it because it was unplayable running at snail pace with unbelievable lag. A shame, could have been a decent game but now i'll never know whether it's any good. Since the original developer stopped making games only a modder could possibly fix this. The problem seems to have occured after a windows update that messed up this game, such a shame...

This is an amusing little game. There are some issues, but that may be because of my machine... Or that the developer is new to it all. You play as Maurean, a prince sent undercover to find the truth behind a series of murders across the world. In the end, he will need to face a bitter truth. Should be a fun game. Get it while it is on discount.