Skyborn

Skyborn is short, sweet, and tells a focused story. Skyborn wastes no time getting interesting and it doesn't drag on for too long. There is an impressive amount of polish here for an RPG Maker title. Big budget studios could learn some lessons here. The game respects me as the player: No random battles, enemies visible on the world & don't respawn, save most anywhere, generous healing areas, quick exit from most dungeons.

(game complete at 13 hours on review time, part of my review all my games effort) (short version) (Gameplay on record isn't accurate as I accidently left my game on pause and alt-tabbed lol) Just enjoyable; I haven't played a SNES 2d RPG like this for a long time. Skyborn reminded me of FF4/6, the music brought me back to chrono trigger sometimes. I'm not saying that Skyborn is a successor to these games, just that I got those vibes. Normally I'd say an RPG maker game isn't worth $15 but with Skyborn I support that price. (Long version) You can tell dancing dragon put a lot of love into this game. Often when I was playing I felt nostalgia as I would if I were playing Final Fantasy 4 or 6. The characters are enjoyable,. the combat is interesting, the rewards are rewarding and feel worth it. The good: I LOVE that if you know what you're doing you can get higher level rewards earlier (i.e. colosseum) than you should have. The music was very well done and often made me think of Chrono Trigger's type of music. I'm not saying Skyborn is a spiritual successor to 2d Chrono Trigger or Final Fantasy, just that it gave me that feel. $15 is a bit high of an asking price for an RPG maker game but I honestly fully support that price for what you get. I enjoyed Skyborn from start to finish. The bad: Honestly really nothing bad, if I were to nit pick on anything I'd say the story over all isn't world shaking (you've probally heard it before in some way or another) and the developers did my favorite character wrong but again none of this is bad this is more nit pick and me having my own fanfiction written in my head.