The Broken Clock

It’s an amazing jrgp, with some engaging boss battles, a story that, while not the best, serves its purpose to move the game forward and a large world to explore and find new places of interest and complex dungeons. While you progress in the story you find some interesting characters. Although regular enemies are usually easy, there are some quite challenging boss fights. Since I really enjoyed it I would recommend.

As a seasoned RPG Maker veteran, I found this game to be way too easy. About 1 hour into the game, I even checked the settings to see if this had a hard mode (it doesn't) The story also failed to grab me. The plot needs much better heroes and villains. And it crashed 3 times in my 10 hours of play. The one positive I can give it, I did like the monster art during battles. Good job there at least. Since Steam has hundreds of other RPG Maker games of much better quality than this, I suggest skipping this one.

This game is incredibly rough. I played through to the end and was, unfortunately, very disappointed. The characters aren't interesting, the combat is unbalanced, the dungeons are annoying, there's a bunch of mechanical bloat, the game crashed a few times and was buggy at other times, and overall the gameplay just isn't fun. When I was at the final boss, unless they scale with the player's levels, I felt like it would have been impossible to beat it unless I was at max level. Most other combat encounters I was able to get through just by auto-battling. I understand that balancing a game is difficult so I feel working with smaller numbers might help. The dungeons all felt the same being basically hallway walking simulators, and some dungeons having switches that needed to be pulled could be pulled twice to turn them back off which was confusing. In addition, most dungeons were just spammed with a bunch of enemy tokens that made it annoying to traverse them. In terms of mechanical bloat, there were gameplay mechanics, like jumping, that felt unnecessary and didn't add anything to the experience of the game. You could easily jump onto places that you clearly aren't intended to, and can jump to avoid the boulder pushing puzzles. The class change system was interesting but still felt undercooked. I wish there was an easier way to tell which classes were just a more advanced version of previous classes. I'm also aware of the plugins that were used and it's very obvious that the dev just plugged them into the game and didn't take any time to read up and edit them like checking the player's stats and seeing their genders being labeled as "Unknown". Overall, this game just needs WAY more polish and a bunch more playtesting. I do see the potential in this and I hope the dev can improve for future projects, but I cannot recommend anyone buying this game even with a discount. Also the credits need to be reworked cause you cannot credit yourself as the artist when you're using AI. You would, at least, credit the software that you used to generate the art. I score things on a -10 to 10 scale with -10 being so bad that it's good. I have to give this game a -1 as there was still some jank that legit got a good laugh out of me.