Orogenesis

The best way to describe Orogenesis is like if Earthbound was made by a 12 year old while his edgy fat neckbeard 18 year old brother played Bloodborne/Dark Souls and obscure JRPGs in the background; strongly influencing/inspiring his younger brother into making something truly bonkers after years and years of dedication. It's really hard to describe what Orogenesis is. It has a lot of things going that make it both simultaneously alienating and at home. It has fantasy elements with swords and monsters, it has elements drawn from reality with Casinos and AK-47s, and it has cosmic horror lurking everywhere. The first half of the story is about a wholesome adventure about da boiz goin to get some orbs and meetin some f(r)iendly faces along the way, but as it progresses it gets more serious and drops lots of deepest lore. I really liked the bits in the early and late game that have lots of the NPCs were just pretty chill, living it up in their places. Towards the middle of the game, it feels both isolating and colder when things really start going down and now you're trying to save the world. The combat in this game is very easy and simple once you get good gear. I've beaten a majority of the game by finding equipment, stockpiling on healing, and just mashing spacebar to attack. There were a few times where I felt like I was being challenged with the [spoiler] Giant Ice Spider [/spoiler] the [spoiler] Dragon [/spoiler] and [spoiler] the secret final boss, to a lesser extent oddly enough [/spoiler]. The game's design does not incentivize the player to kill things, once you have stockpiles of money and supplies to last a while, outside of killing bosses or enemies holding keys/equipment. Although it is an interesting idea to abstain leveling for equipment-based progression, I feel like it was executed poorly. What the RPG really lacks is any defining classes or roles for each party member. Normally when designing party-based RPGs, the best framework you can use is going by classic Warrior/Thief/Mage designs with each having defining roles and unique strengths/weaknesses. In this game, everyone just feels like a Warrior (with the exception of the protagonist, who gets lots of versatile and powerful spells, becoming something of a CHAD battle mage with supportive options). One could argue the leaf guy has some utility in its kit with the weaken seeds and the crowd control move, but for the most part, you don't really need to think so much about what each character is capable of. Gameplay aside, the aesthetics of the game is very much pleasing to the eyes and ears. Each part of the overworld has a distinct color that gives it a theme and identity while the world and character design is cute and morbid. The combat's artstyle is really great too. Each weapon and item has its own animation that goes with it. Everything is so wonderfully etched with the combat and some cutscenes being a big highlight of what the game is from a visual standpoint. Furthermore, the game's music is boppin'. It's got some decent chill, funky grooves, and really weird experimental stuff. Overall, the game's presentation is very appealing. Orogenesis is a solid hidden gem, despite some of its design flaws. If you want a JRPG that's a wacky fantasy with a subtle slice of life and a dash of eldritch horror, this game is a great way to spend roughly 7 hours of your time. I highly recommend this game to anyone that's into games like Hylics or games influenced by the Mother series (however, if you're looking for an interestingly designed turn-based combat, I suggest you keep looking).

Softlocked with no fix in the foreseeable future. I would like to finish it...

https://youtu.be/ah892CN2x1g Overall style is trying far to hard to be both funny and edgy but lands in the area of exhaustive.

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for £2.09, pretty good game, although personally I have to say I did prefer mothlight, and that was free, same creator, this is mothlight's sequel, but I didn't really feel that it quite lived up I didn't hate it, it wasn't bad, there were some issues, I did feel that the direction was quite poor in some areas, and there are a couple bugs, nothing game breaking as far as I've seen one issue I have is that there's just not really any external sources for help, no fan wiki, not really any guides on youtube, just sort of let's plays, so you have to figure out everything for yourself, god blood in particular caused me some confusion I wasn't sure where the last 2 god blood were, I had 3, and got all the orogenesis orbs, I looked around a ton trying to find the last 2, looking it up I found out there was 1 outside of shantytown under a rock you have to mine more than all the other rocks, but I didn't realise 1 was also from fighting the guy in the door opened by the orogenesis orbs there seems to be about 4 endings as far as I can tell, could be more, 1 is from fighting the god blood monster thing, 1 is from not fighting it, 1 is from going up the stairs, 1 is from talking to Enzo after getting all the orbs and doing everything in the door but not going up the stairs, this ending feels kind of like you have to really go looking for it, or be paying attention to everything going on, this ending also has the most extra game overall, this game has a lot of lore, some poor direction which requires you to just persistently be trying to look around or figure out what's expected of you, but it's not a bad game despite it's flaws, I'd recommend you play mothlight first since it's free, and then decide after that if you want more, and then get this game, otherwise you may rather not bother I also feel it's worth noting that I've heard there were some rumours about the dev, only thing I heard was from the owner of the discord the dev made, from asking around I heard he said some racist or, let's say "WWII Germany", type stuff, I didn't see a lot about it tho, as while the games are good, they don't seem to have much recognition online (hence neither does the dev), which I think is a shame, as they've got some phenomenal worldbuilding, particularly the first game, although this one does expand on it fairly well despite the rumours about the dev, if you can separate the art from the artist, they're great games with distinct visual designs, great worldbuilding, and the gameplay is at least okay for an RPGmaker game, it's not breaking any barriers or anything, or redefining RPGmaker combat, but it works, ultimately you play for the story and the world with games like this, and they're both pretty compelling, it's not for everyone, but you can use your eyes, if you think from a glance you'd like this then you might, if you think you might not then you probably wouldn't out of 10 I'd give this a high 6 or a low 7, so I guess 6.5

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