Last Dream

SPOILER-FREE REVIEW Disclaimer: If you're not picky about story or you value gameplay over story, then this review isn't really relevant to you. I played a decent amount of this game, but as a gamer who likes story-driven games, it just wasn't doing it for me. Gameplay is fun, the puzzles are challenging (but not ridiculously difficult), and for a RPG Maker game, a lot of work and detail was put into it. So, there are definitely good points about this game. The story was just mediocre. It wasn't bad. There were interesting things about it, but it got to the point where I just lost interest. I'm 47 hours in and I realized that I just don't really care about what's happening in the story. That's not a good sign. I was hoping it would get better as I progressed through it, but the story just wasn't enough to keep me going. It probably didn't help that there's ZERO women in game, unless you count a chosen party member, but they don't really have personality or a place in the story. I...

As seen in the forum, my impressions after a few hours: Its quite free-roaming, and wandering around and getting into trouble in a couple places has been nice. The skill system works quite nicely. Battles give you Skill Points that you can use to purchase skills for each class. Some are active and some are passive. Actives become abilities/spells that cost mana. You also need to meet level and skill prerequisites to get the more advanced skills. There also seems to be quite a lot of them. The stat system has really grabbed my attention. It really seems to open a lot of potential for playing parties in different ways. You can focus on damage, magic, defense, health, mana pool etc. I've so far focused on getting my party faster than all the monsters so they go first in combat (with reasonable success) while making them all beefy. Its a simple yet elegant little system. Classes are varied and fun, with unique properties that make them viable/worth consideration. Hunters can tame you ...

This game is more amazing than you can possibly imagine while looking at the $4 price tag and the Final Fantasy 1 graphics. The game description lists its selling points well enough, but what really hooked me was being able to play on the highest difficulty and chase after very difficult or impossible achievements while never having played the game before. I loved starting off the game and getting my ass handed to me in the newbie dungeon against 3 slimes, then trying to figure out exactly which kind of improvement on the 10 stats on which characters might help me to take on these challenges with more success. There is a great deal of randomization involved here and always a chance that your healer will get two-shotted in the next round. Will this break you, or will your tank be able to last through the fight? Can you reach the dungeon exit with your three dead and one guy with 10% hp left or will you be seeing the Game Over screen? Anything might happen in this game, and that is...

Look below for my breakdown after a brief spiel about the game. To start this review I'd like to say this is a very well made game. A lot of thought was put into everything from skills/spells to leveling and character progression. From the start you get to choose your party a la Final Fantasy 1 style. You get to choose from Gray Mage (sorta like a red mage) White Mage, Black Mage, Engineer (sorta like a chemis from FF tactics), Thief, Knight, Monk and Hunter. Each one has their own sorta unique set of skills and abilities. Out of the classes there are three with unique abilities that you should consider bringing at least one of them along IE: Thief for steal, Engineer for Tunneling, and Hunter for Taming. I brought two of those along in hopes of accessing their specials to get better loot. Hopefully it doesn't come back to bite me. So far nothing has felt bogged down or slow. I went out of the starter town with nothing and came back after a few minutes of grinding very pleased. So fa...

This game is awesome :D Ignore the fact that its made with the RPG Maker. It has a interesting story and you can customize your party in endless ways. The character system is deep as hell...You really have to think before you spent your skillpoints! The additional quests and dungeons made this game a must have for me. Because I can decide which way I go and explore whenever I want or just follow the mainquest. Sometimes it feels good and u get rewarded with joy when u support small devs. Because this game is definitley no quick money grab. 8/10 PS: Did I mention it has Steam trading cards + over 200 Steam achievments?

So I gave this game a few hours of my time, and I have to say I'm disappointed. I am fully aware of the possibilities and limitations that come with creating a game using RPGMaker, as I've used the program myself quite a bit, and I can tell you right away that this game isn't much more than stock resources piled onto a bland story. There are a few interesting features, such as designing your own party, but in the end these features aren't used to their full extent, and the way it's done is very generic. Customizing stats and skills is fine in itself, but the system used here is, once again, very generic and doesn't offer much customization other than "make a good build or make five different bad ones". Graphics are mostly, if not completely, stock, which in itself can be fine, but when the game fails to produce any other redeeming qualities I can't help but notice how I've seen the graphics many, many times before. The music feels completely random most of the time. Especially during...

A great example of a JRPG. If you enjoy the genre, i would highly suggest this game. It has a good system for classes, with a lot of diversity that can match anyone's gaming style. The combat system is very well made, especially for an RPG. The storyline is interesting and keeps you involved in the game, even with its sandbox like envrionment. I would buy this game, especially if it was on sale. It's worth the price it's at.

Last Dream is a game for people who love classic Singleplayer-RPGs in the old style. First of all you have to choose your main party (4 out of 8 Characters). You will always walk with your main character through the game but your party members will help you in the battles. Story: Your character (you can name him like you want) is lost in a strange world. He doesn’t know how he got there and starts to search a way back home. On his journey he discovered lots of evil monsters and you have to decide if you fight or try to escape (It’s a little bit like in Pokémon for all who know the GameBoy Pokémon games lol). But the main character will also meet lots of friendly town dweller from Terra who give him gifts or sell him stuff. The town dweller are scared about the ancient creatures of Terra because they get more and more power and hurt or kill people. So you have to defeat this corrupted power to save Terra and ultimately yourself. Gameplay: Like I said it’s a classic RPG so yo...

Alright. I'll get straight to the point. Recommended: Yes Because overall this game was very very enjoyable for what it is. But you're not interested in factless statements. I've already gotten my money's worth. Game cost me $5 and at the time of this review I've played it 7.7 hours. It costs like $6 to go to see a movie at the theater for like 2 or 2 and a half hours. So yeah. Here's what I like and don't like about it so far. Really just a couple major things. I'll start with what I like of course. + I like the leveling up system. Rather than you getting preassigned increases to various stats when your guys level up, you just get the points to spend however you want. This makes me feel like I'm really in control of my party's strengths and weaknesses. That I can do something about it if they're lacking in this area or that. Is my White Mage not able to keep up with the damage being thrown at the party? Next level up I can dump ALL the points into INT if I want to. Is my White ...

Holy crap, I did not expect such an amazing game! I haven't had this much fun with an rpg since I was a kid. I've never played an rpg maker game before and had reservations about trying a game that looked very cheap and generic to be honest but I'm really glad I did. What the game lacks in original art it more than makes up for in game play and sheer scope. It does what old snes rpgs did so well then improves on them in subtle ways like letting players choose what skills to pick and the option to distribute character stats. This features are so well implemented that it makes you wonder how come it's so rare to see them in jrpg games. The story is a little weak, you play a silent protagonist and your party members are completely anonymous henchman that get mentioned I think once in the entire game. There's a sort of trade off; instead of a tight narrative that restricts where and what your character can do like a more tradtional final fantasy story does, by not focusing on your charact...