Last Dream

Solid gameplay, many interesting approaches to team customization, and there is a PDF walkthrough which is well-written and helpful.

Highly recommended to anyone who likes old-school RPG as this game is wonderfully recreating the vibe or very early Final Fantasy gameplay. There aren't anything spectacularly inspiring to be completely honest, but for the most part the game offer smooth gameplay with huge amount of explorations. The overall playtime is roughly 20 hours if you played on easiest difficulty and ignore most side quests, but it took me 40 hours to finish about ~90% content on my first playthrough, with probably more content in New Game + In my humble opinion, this game has fully exploited RPGM's capabilities of its time and presented a solid game with the traditional JRPG style. One detailed that left me with a very positive impression is that almost all NPC in this game has their dialogue changes as you progress through the game, and many of these NPC actually are inter-related and have their own small plots. Although I would say the story of this game isn't especially outstanding, but the effort that puts into enriching this immersive world is very respectable. BUT... The puzzles are a nice addition to an RPG but some puzzles in this game are a bit too much and rage-inducing. Although vast majority of these puzzles are optional, and most of them are rather simple fun logic puzzles, but there are a few very difficult ones that would take a pen and paper plus literally hours sitting in front of your desk. Most puzzle also reward you with sh*tty consumables so that's another disappointment. [strike]As of writing this review right now I've been stuck on the same puzzle (Daedalus's tower) for more than an hour now and is terribly annoyed, plus I've also played another similarly annoying patience-demanding puzzle (mine field) just a while ago, and I can be completely honest that I'm currently filled with extreme rage and annoyance, partially due to the game softlocking me in the current puzzle with annoying encounters. [/strike] I have to say that RPGM is not a good engine to create large scale puzzles, especially those that requires running across maps that are few-screens-wide flipping switches on-and-off hoping to get the right combination to open the right path. Not to mention when you added extremely annoying enemies that could give debuffs or insta-kill.