ILLUSION

This game was made by someone that was really passionate about making games. He worked so hard on this project all alone for 8 years and started just when he was a kid. I'm writing this review to support the developer and to send him a message to keep making games and keep doing what he loves. A lot of hard work, dedication and love went into this game. And all of this for only the price of 2$? definitely buy this, support the developer that made this awesome nice game.

An indie hidden gem made with a ton of personality and love from the dev. <3

RPG Maker strikes again! ILLUSION is one of hundreds of low effort retro-pixel RPG Maker asset/construction kit flips spamming the Steam catalog, made with the RPG Maker video game construction kit... in their own words, "Our easy to use tools are simple enough for a child." Unlike the vast, vast majority of RPG Maker "games", which are essentially a bunch of low quality/canned assets from RPG Maker coupled with a cringeworthy high school anime club fan fiction, the 2D retro pixel art assets here seem to have been made manually, by hand. We can tell this, because they look considerably worse than the stock assets provided with Kadokawa's construction kit for children. The crap high school anime club dropout fan-fiction, however, is completely authentic and absolutely on par with all the other crap RPG Maker asset flips infesting Steam. In fact, this is the 335th crap RPG Maker game I've had the misfortune of reviewing on Steam. It's an epidemic, polluting the Steam store with low quality trash. There's a garbage, meandering, pointless story about a young girl living with an adoptive family who goes looking for a flower that grants wishes. The story is esoteric in nature and seems to have been intended to be somewhat comical? There's no actual comedy. The writing is particularly bad and is either poorly translated or written with a very poor grasp of English... regardless of the reason, the writing is trash. Unfortunately, that's the core of the game, as the RPG elements are a minor component to the game, so RPG fans looking for a crap RPG experience instead of a crap visual novel experience will be disappointed. As with all RPG Maker games, the poor quality engine displays badly in fullscreen and doesn't have full HD support or any graphics tweaking options, making this unacceptable for any dedicated modern PC gamer. The point can be made that the intention of RPG Maker is to make demos and small games to pass around friends, and shouldn't be used for "professional" game development. RPG Maker is an absolutely terrible construction kit, and never results in games of any reasonable quality or value to gamers. Gamers who want a good retro JRPG experience would be better off playing the originals, like Final Fantasy, Star Ocean or Chrono Trigger. The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 4 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 50,000 games for gamers to choose from (over 9,000 completely free titles), the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected. ILLUSION is relatively cheap at $2 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend.

BRO THIS GAME IS SO UNDERRATED.

[b]Story:[/b] I would describe the story as "bizzare" and "catchy", although overall i would rate the story "okay". Some part of the story is confusing with lack of proper build up, which doesn't give satisfaction when i reach good ending. Many of the jokes doesn't "click" for me either. And if you haven't read warning about this game, i strongly recommend you to scroll up and read warning described by the developer. [b]Visual:[/b] The hand drawn CG is okay and has it's own charm, however the overall visual is mixed bags. Some tiles that doesn't match together, while non-repeatable tile used as repeatable tile which show ugly edge. And some animation looks weird/awkward to me. [b]Audio:[/b] Just what i expected from $2 RPGMaker game. Occasional disharmonic, poor transaction between different music and i feel it's there to fill the silence rather than emphasize the story. [b]Gameplay:[/b] The puzzle is fine. Many of them aren't too easy and aren't too hard. There are few puzzle which confuse me, but it could be solved with either more thinking or brute force. The quiz which require you to remember some key of the story is a bit annoying, but i understand it's intentional to match with story/game theme. [b]Gameplay (combat):[/b] The combat/battle system is simply bad. Basically you choose either attack (normal attack, [spoiler] gun and rifle [/spoiler]) and use item (mainly item which recover HP). There's little gameplay progression, so it become dull very quickly that i decide to use cheat engine to modify my HP and use auto mode. The worst part, there are so many random enemy encounter so even clicking auto once on each battle feel like a chore. [b]Conclusion:[/b] While ILLUSION has some charm and i can developer passion in this game, unfortunately i don't enjoy this game so much. It's hard to recommend this game to everyone, probably expect for hardcore RPGMaker and surreal game enthusiast. If you still plan to buy this game, i strongly recommend you to check other review and the gameplay on Youtube (or other platform).

I believe that if indie games are only like that. Really beautiful and original graphics, beautiful and unusual characters. It's a pretty surreal game and the plot is just as surreal, I like that. If you like games like undertale then I advise you to try this

This is a charming game, and visually interesting. I was too stupid for some puzzles, but the dev personally answered a question I had, even years after this game was published, which I was really grateful about. I don't think I can recommend this game to a general audience, but I think anyone who enjoys other similar games may enjoy this overall, one of the better ways I have spent 52 cents

Malgré quelques petits défauts, notamment sur la gestion des combats, le jeu est plutôt réussit. Graphiquement artistique, on reconnait bien quelques inspirations typé Burton, mais sans copie. Finalement, pour un 1er jeu, je vais dire Oui ! Avec tout mes encouragements pour la suite (si il est lieu d'y avoir ^^). Attention toutefois, musicalement, c'est aussi surprenant que particulier. Mes oreilles de musicien on pas toujours été OK avec certaines pistes (mal choisi en, themes, sonorités, boucles, endroits, et moments). Comment ? J'ai rien dis sur l'histoire ?? Evidemment ! Cela serait du spoil !!! Un indice ? Ok... hum... c'est... déroutant :) Vous pouvez y aller ! GG Luna !!! o/ Note: Une copie du jeu m'a été offerte par mon ami Napostriouf !

I don't really have anything to add to the game reviews that other people haven't already said, the game is just fun. I played it a few years back when the dev sent it to me over Facebook before they put it up on Steam. It was fun then and it was fun now. I didn't really plan to buy it on Steam since I still have the copy they sent me but I wanted to show my support since we've been friends on Facebook for so long.

10/10 made me goth