Reviews - negoay

RPG Maker games have their own charms for their players. But if you are looking for a good plot, well designed characters, hard worked maps and nice features combined in a single game, Enelysion Redux is what you are looking for.

It is hard to believe there are some unique and never-written-before stories lying out there somewhere. How can this one have a "better" plot than the others? Ladies and gentlemen, our young Luchino has made a story that contain common events in most RPG, but enriched the story with character designs and conntections between the events. Events that happened in the past, the characters' past and what's happening along the story are all connected to each other in some way. This makes the game look like it has too many seperate stories merged into one, but in fact every seperate story has a connection with the main story.

The twists on the story are made mostly by characters' themselves. The psychological and emotional sides of the characters are perfectly merged with the dialogues. Ideologies that the characters have are pretty clear, they show it in their actions and these actions pulls the story into different directions each time they have to face physically and mentally hard situations. And you won't even say "Why did he/she do that?" because you already know what he/she is thinking. In short, Enelysion might have the best character design I've seen in RPG Maker games so far.

Luchino says this game took her 4 years to make. Just looking at the maps will tell you why it took so long. Maps are designed very well and enriched with the lighting scripts and images. The tile-sets and decoration objects are used brilliantly in every corner. Speaking of scripts, this game has a bunch of extra features that does not included in RPG Maker but can be obtained via scripts, some of many are custom menu, battle and shop systems. And of course we must not forget Ronove who drew those beautiful character portraits in game, they look really good in game.

Battles are really tricky in Enelysion. You will always have a chance to run before the battle starts since the game doesn't use "random encounter" thing. Enemies has elemental weaknesses and immunities, which make the battles harder with the requirement of good strategies for each monster. This especially makes the boss fights harder! But it is never annoyingly hard, Luchino really did everything she can do in game that can help you.

The only thing that make me a little upset is that it is a little hard to find your way in game. Maybe it's about my memory, but I can't find the towns/shrines I'm looking for! Everytime I needed to search whole world map. Therefore I think if there were more "signs" in game, that would be awesome, especially for me... But this doesn't change the fact that the game, Enelysion Redux is a brilliant game. HEAVILY RECOMMENDED!

Just played it, and enjoyed it A LOT!

The art is really good (with graphics, music and sound effects), but this is one of those games that wins with its playability. It is really enjoyable and playable IF you are patient and can learn by making dozens of mistakes. Getting used to controls, figuring out what to do, trying to do it while learning the environment are the best parts of it. It has really little information about what to do, but figuring it out myself is way more better. Zelda didn't had any single info too!

The only thing that bothered me was the entrance to the mothership, I think there is a symbol on the gate but it isn't very clear to see. The rotating antennas next to the doors made me think that they are somehow related to the gate. I love the games where there are less tutorial and more trial-fail learning, but the space is too big and dangerous for trying... Anyway!

The other thing that upset me is...IT ENDED SO QUICKLY! =( I will probably play this again after finishing this review, but I really wished the game to take longer to beat. One point dropped, because I'm upset :( But it worths to play the game, twice, or 354312547 times.

First of all I should say that I only played (and still playing since I downloaded) the demo. After experiencing the game about 2 hours, here is all I can say:

- In game, the time is "slow", which I think is a really good thing to be in a sandbox town-settling game. In this kind of games, I've mostly seen the time passes really fast, like a day in 10-15 minutes, however in Your Quest one second in real life is one minute in game, which makes 24 minutes a day in game. You won't have to rush around like "Omg I have to shelter quickly before the night comes because zombies wi- WAIT! Oh no one of my villagers attacked by a magical tree, another is dying in hunger!", because the game is mostly peaceful in the beginning.

- I see that the rest of the population is not "visible". They work without bothering your eyes running around and gather resources related with their jobs in every hour. This keeps you motivated to do one thing at a time, keeping you relaxed and while playing.

- The only thing that a little annoyed me is the character walks really slow. Considering in game time it is logical, okay, but it takes really long to walk small amount of a distance.

- Oh by the way, "press-and-hold while choosing" interacting with objects and enemies has a comfortable mechanism! The timing for chopping trees, building stuff or fishing is really in harmony with in-game time.

- Normally I expect to see graphic HUD's instead of text HUD's, but for this game it, again, feels really comfortable. It doesn't bother your eyes and organized very nice.

- Musics are soothing, sound effects are nice, graphics feel like it couldn't be better for a game like this!

The game really deserves points above a fair level. I will (for now) give 8/10 points because of the feeling I've got from the slow-walking I told about. Also, I don't want to give my exact opinion with playing the demo and not playing the full release. But I clearly believe my point would rise up as I get used to the game and play the full release!

Good job!