Scarmonde

Compelling little pick-up-and-play RPG. Takes a lot of the best qualities of the handheld FF and Dragon Warrior games from across the years and condenses them in to something that makes me want to jump back in for a few more minutes throughout my day. Very suited to the Steam Deck. I'm really impressed and I'm going to have to keep an eye on the dev in the future.

Looks like a game I'd enjoy a lot. But Insufferable text lag for every single text box. Great job. Edit: Menu lag. Could we please improve or throw away RPG maker, every single game suffers from the exact same problems. After playing a bit more I feel i nerd to add a bit more. This game is a double edged sword, it's fun but also suffers from ancient problems even some super Nintendo games had solved back in the day. The good: - Fantastic music. Nearly every track is just awesome for what it needs to do. Chilling town theme, sad dungeon theme, energetic boss battle. Maybe it could've used one more random battle song even though it rocks hard you'll be hearing it a lot. - lots of classes and equipment, leaving many of ways to customise your team. (except physical) - smooth battles with an option to speed up. - good progression, exploration and rewards. (I need, more, ORBS!) The bad: - RPG maker so lag everywhere, including menus and sometimes even in the overworld. This is inexcusable as I've played Look outside and that game is buttery smooth in its menus. If you're in a shop menu, trying to scroll down will have the game lag at every item. But don't worry, you can press L or R to skip a page! ... No, both left and right and L and R will switch characters, not skip a page. You're stuck lagging per item, and the lists get bigger. Great job. Speaking of, - The menu/ui Not everything fits in the item description box. This is painfully apparent when important stats are just simply left out. One way to find out is to constantly switch over to the stats screen and see what a happened, if you can remember everything. There are many stats, lots of equipment slots and piles of equipment. This sucks hard. This could've been fixed by allowing an extra screen to show exactly what this item does, or exactly how it affects all stats. Even some games 30 years ago had this option. Sadly, in this game if you like to make sure how your characters are affected, you'll be switching between the equipment screen and stat screen a LOT and probably roll your eyes when there's a new batch of equipment in the shops, that you can scroll through with delicious lag. You might think it's not too bad is it? Well for example I found a piece of armor with high defence and HP. Great for a tank yes? No, it completely destroys your aggro, and this is mentioned nowhere. You'll find out in battle when suddenly everyone except for your tank gets whooped. Stuff like this is just weak, and once again could be fixed easily. - Class balance may be a bit off. Paladin is extremely powerful, and if you want anything physical, you will need a knight, no questions asked. This also feels a bit lame with having 12 classes but only one with all the physical skills. There's warrior but he only has 3 weapon specific multi hit skills and that's it. Paladin, thief, hunter, monk, none of them have even a single physical skill. Just seems like a very strange decision as everyone and their mother has magic. Speaking of magic, why is steal magic? My thief is silenced and now I can't steal anymore. Same for the few physical skills. Sorry but no. This is a fun game held back by archaic limitations that in my opinion should not be a problem in games in the current day. If it's an rpg maker problem, upgrade it or use something else. If this was early release it could slightly understandable. But this game has been out for a while and it doesn't like there's any interest in fixing it. Terrible pity. Conclusion: Fun game, bad design, blame it on RPG maker, fix nothing.