The Remake of the End of the Greatest RPG of All Time

Very cool puzzle game with surprisingly well done themes.

The game itself is pretty good. Had a blast playing through the meta! ... but the soundtrack is out of this world! Those songs keeps repeating in my head and I'm enjoying every bit of it! A masterful retro-style soundtrack that, in and of itself, makes the whole game worth playing! Of course, there's moments of confusion and where you feel like you're aimlessly roaming around, but there's just so much that you always end up discovering something new anyway! I thoroughly enjoyed my time playing this game. Well done to the Devs, you're proof that the future is Indie! Only through them do I get to find my passion for gaming soar back from its AAA numbness, and it means a lot to me. :)

This game has a very simple concept executed fairly well. The puzzles are fairly straight forward once you know how to do them, but it's still very fun to try and figure out the solutions. One minor nitpick is that you can get somewhat soft-locked for a bit if you use a bit of context clues/associative thinking. You can technically still progress if this happens, it just makes some things a bit harder. (you can go back and collect the things that you've missed at a later point in the game.) Overall the game is pretty fun as long as you're into meta games.

It's an interesting game. But ultimately I think it fails as a satisfying puzzler. One key element of a satisfying puzzler is rewarding curiosity and cleverness. But in this game, if you're curious and clever, you'll soft-lock yourself by sequence-breaking the game. Let me explain. This game is based around a fairly linear intended sequence. If you follow the intended sequence closely, the game will feed you clues and hints. But what if you make an unexpected connection? perhaps you notice a link between the names of two items in your inventory. And you know one of those items is used to open a certain kind of door. Hmm, lets see if the other one can do that too? Boom, you just broke the intended sequence. And you skipped many essential clues and hints! It can be difficult to get back to the intended sequence and recover those clues. This happened to me a few times. Mostly I was able to get back and recover the clues I missed. But it felt like the game was punishing me rather than rewarding me for figuring something out. In the worst instance: I somehow reached some kind of gauntlet or challenge event. In this event, it is very difficult to go back and gather missed clues. But because I reached this state early without following the intended sequence, I didn't have a clue necessary to progress in the gauntlet. [spoiler]During the ending sequence where Noah takes away the ability to quit or return to the main menu, I didn't have the piece of paper that says what vertical, early, and late mean, so I couldn't defeat the Chronopede enemy. I had figured out what the "terminal code" was going to be without fully investigating that area, allowing me to miss the handwritten note that explains how to defeat the enemy.[/spoiler] I was completely stuck, unable to go forward and unable to go back. My primary suggestion is [spoiler]don't take away the ability to return to areas of the game that were skipped. If I get stuck I need to be able to go back and look for what I missed.[/spoiler]

This game ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ rules. While not much of it is an RPG, TRoTEoTGRPGoAT is a fun and puzzling journey into *should* we remake games that we love. Why we love those games in the first place. The positives and negatives of nostalgia. All beneath the guise of an RPG with, honestly, a very fun and interesting combat system that is more about solving the puzzle than anything. There is a lot of meta commentary here, and often it comes off as camp or B movie, but while that was initially a little grating it did not take long for that to become part of what I loved about TRotEotGRPGoAT. Absolutely going to be one of my favorites from this year. No idea what this team is going to create next, but I'm already seated for it.