Overall, a ton could be done better with this game. If anything I say is wrong, feel free to correct me.
While the art and animations are nice, I get the feeling that a lot of them are stock RPG Maker assets. Same goes for the music, and lot of tracks don't seem to fit the setting. The tiling could have done a lot better, especially in the overworld. Everything there is laid out in such a strange way, where some areas are crowded and others are completely barren. It was obvious there were plans for other places to travel to in the overworld, but I keep running into dead ends where I think entrances would be. Enemy balancing is all over the place as well. In the early game, it's super easy to encounter monsters that will absolutely destroy the party, making the beginning pretty grindy. Most of the way through the game, all the enemies drop obscene amounts of money, so it becomes entirely meaningless.
Now for the story, or lack thereof. I assumed Trent's main motivation for going on an adventure with the team was so he could find his way home somehow by following along with their plans. I was disappointed to find that the plot point was dropped immediately, as it is never expanded upon. There's a narrator that tries so hard to add comedic moments to the script, but they all flop hard. The game could have gone without them entirely. I was at least able to go from point A to B because I was told where to go next, but I was always scared I'd trigger an event later in the story, since I read that it was a common issue. It becomes incredibly hard to follow within the first 20 minutes, with all these characters showing up and vanishing, never to be heard of again, and events just happening for basically no reason. And then it just ends without answering, but creating even more questions about the characters. [spoiler] Where does Trent go after all this? What is this "deal" the Dark Lord mentioned before the fight? What was the significance of anything? [/spoiler]
I may have read a bit too far into what is likely someone's first published game, but I still feel like I should give what criticisms I can.
