The Legion of Maelstrom

Super Fun! A modern take on old-school rpgs. It's like a vintage rpg without feeling like a rehash of *insert title here*. Love the mechanics, retro graphics, and of course the music just slays! Don't be a cheapskate, forgo your latte-grande-whatevers for a couple days and BUY THIS GAME!

Awesome game. I love the music. Everything is hilarious, and it has a great retro feel. Looks a lot like Star Tropics, but with a unique turn based battle system. It's kind of grindy, but I like that, and the shared job skills keeps it fun. No idea how the HP system works. Sometimes you use the Level 5 Heal Spell in another class, and your HP only goes up 100, then it goes up more after you're attacked, or it goes down, or it doesn't change at all. I love how the points mean nothing. It keeps it random and exciting. Yet I still enjoy leveling up.

10/10 Would (will) play again!

Surprisingly good.

Buy this game.

The game is original and very cool, the only two issues I need to point out are: - the fact that changing class forces you to go back to town is kind of annoying, - the volume is very high and I couldn't find a native way to lower it inside the game. Aside of that, fans of old JRPGs should play this :)

Solo game dev? Damn. Solid game. Interesting and unique designs. As soon as I saw the ice slipping animation, I could imagine the love that was put into this game. I'm a complete noob solo game dev, and I was thinking to myself, "damn, I wouldn't have bothered with that." Loved that music room! I'm not much of a story person, but I actually really liked where it went. Loved that ending scene! Oh, and the animations, sound effect, for the moves were really good. Great pixel arts. The music too, head bopping. If I may add some ideas, and I don't know if this is in the game or not, but it would have been nice if I could have spent my in-game money on an upgraded battle scanner that reveals the enemy's HP at all times. I would have also liked it if the player were able to random crit the enemy, as well as gain random buff (dodge, MP regen, no MP cost on skill, increased MP refill, etc), to make the battle dynamic, as by the time I fought the gold shard enemies, it kind of became a battle of endurance with their high HP, and in my mind, I kind of thought of it like when I played Skyrim, and I would hop on a rock and, as a low level archer, shoot a lot of arrow at a giant that couldn't quite get me, and in the context of this game, basically had to, every now and then, hop down from the rock to collect all my shot-arrows, hop back up on the rock, and repeat. Also, I think you should move/remove the chests at the end boss, and just have one of the story-NPC give it to you when that area becomes accessible, as I completely ignored that area, choosing to level my classes instead, heading to that area only after I felt ready, only to find all these useful things there, would have really loved having those items beforehand! I legit got chills when a certain character spoke near the ending! You should be proud!

full 100% playthrough here: https://youtu.be/S9hkUX1LFbE I absolutely loved this game once I started I had a hard time putting it down until I reached 100%. This game has a very unique and fantastic take on leveling classes and fights. The music is a blast and the pixel sprites look sick. Definitely cannot recommend this enough.

A nice way to start off the New Year of Video games. The game play is challenging, the world is really cute with this Star Tropics vibe to it. The music stays in your head long after you stopped playing it.. in a good way... very very catchy. Not much to the story but it is not really what you are playing this game for. The game has no overworld battles which is interesting and I was glad for it. The boss battles can be long but they were long for me because I didnt realize the level cap was 20 so I was grind leveling the bosses as they appeared and I didnt need to do that because there are more bosses than the level cap. I will say though the citizen is weaker for quite awhile and benefits from the levels of the other classes considerably. I do not think there is a wrong way to play it though. Money is tight till you get a bit further so you have to mind your cash. I usually only spent money on stones to fight the bosses again. The further you go though the items can sell for a bit and then money will not be a problem. One of the nice things they added for people is late in the game there is a dragon like creature that can reset all the bosses for you. Everytime you fight a boss they get a little stronger. The can reset them all a max of 3 times. I didnt need to do that with how much I leveled up but I can see this helping a lot of people who didn't grind I guess you'd say as I did. I do feel like I played it in hard mode and I was not disgruntled by this fact because the combat was fun. I think because the fights strategy wise could take awhile they were smart not to add overworld combat. I think that would have drawn it out too much uneccessarily. If you want a bit of nostalgia with challenge that wont take 100 hours to get through id recommend this game. I hope more people will play it since it does not have many reviews. I will be looking in the future to see what this developer comes up with next. Keep at it your game was really fun. I can see myself downloading it again in the future and doing a boss fight just for fun or walking across the game world just to hear the music. P.S The game did have some flashing lights a lot in the intro mainly. There are some in a few of the boss fights but I was able to get through it and not be in agony like some other games. I was worried when I saw the warning in the intro and when I first played it I did have some struggle because of the lightning but was able to get through it. P.S.S To the game developer. The clothesline idea I absolutely loved for the class change and the citizen with his victory was really adorable I hope you keep with this style design wise just of course less flashing lights for us older weak eyed people. Oh and keep the same person you used for your music it was such a perfect fit for the world you created. ^_^

Quite unique take on the JRPG genre.