Avenger: Nature's Ballad (DEMO Available!)

[hellhound]

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Platform- RPG maker XP

Spoiler: Background History

                    Continent of Titania

6 Gods History
The Continents were divided with each of the 6 Gods are named of. there is Titania, Alcent, Gote, Zenneth, Amu, and Gilgamesh. each of the continent has it's own gods ruling, but the Continent of Gote were the only one without a God... Gote was sealed below the core as a sign of punishment of his attempt to rule all continent... so if Gote was to be revived, the attempt will happen again... but he's stronger now.

Elmine Village
At every of the 6 continent around the world, each have it's own sacred seal hidden in their sacred villages, while at Titania, Elmine village was the chosen village to hide and protect Titania's seal. so Elmine's druids, Moogles and shamans are trained to become guardians of the seal. The forests of Titania was the main energy of the seal, if it weren't for the forests, the seal would have done ages ago. but the forests keeps standing out for the seal...

But one day, a terrible plague came to Titania, all creatures around the forest has become insane and destroyed the forests, the forests begun to rot with all of this happened... the plague spreads month by month. and still cannot be recovered.

The master shaman of Elmine named dyastra begun to research the source of this plague to stop this.. but decades have passed he still wasn't successfull, but he still keep on researching until the end.

Imperial Empire
The Empire Led by the Strongest Lancer named Falberith, the Empire is the one that rules the whole continent in Titania,
he controls everything that what the continent has, even the forests, The Empire was considered supreme among wars, they have never failed at least once, Falberith was the strongest man alive in the continent, so no one dares to oppose him.

Spoiler: Story

I won't post the whole story...but here goes...

At the Sacred village of Elmine, A young girl named Naoimi has lost her parents and separated from her brother, the Plague was the reason for this all, Naoimi now lives with her Aunt, she now studies to become a good Druidess and Avenge Titania by destroying the source of the plague.....she also have to look for her missing twin brother.....so she sets up to face all dangers, meet people and explore the missing rarity of the forests.

Spoiler: Playable Characters

Characters

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NAOIMI- A Girl that Served Priestess Linoan as a Druidess, she's the main character of the story.
Shy, Naive, and has a strong fighting spirit. She is pure when it comes to Nature's Safety, her dream
was to destroy the source of the plague itself and restore back the normal continent, but will she succeed.?

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CLYVE- A Young adopted boy lived at Elmine Village, he wakes up every morning to work
at the docks helping his adoptive father. there was also sayings that Clyve has a similar
face detailes with one of Priestess Linoan's Druidess' , the one that they were referring to was the
girl named Naoimi


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DRAKE- Drake lived far from Elmine Village, Drake's Parents were once in a hunting team before
they were young, so Drake will now follow his parents ambition as a hunter, He also wields a gun swiftly.

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MEGAN- Megan is a lone girl that served the Imperial Empire, she's a very powerful
sage to behold, but she never keeped up her magics, and she have never know how to use
her powerful spells.

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LANCE- Lance is a Brother of the ruler of the Imperial empire, Megan and Lance
studied together on magic mastery, but Lance never get to learn magic, so he
followed his brother's way as a great Lancer.

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ROSE- Rose is Naoimi's best friend, they studied together as classmates at Elmine's temple,              she also does this for the future of Titania, she's an annoying noisy girl, but still good to be with.

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Zack- He's a boy lived at Titania's neighbor continent of Alcent, he's a very arrogant
boy who thinks he can beat almost everyone who challenges him, but he don't know that he
still got lots to learn, he's boastfull and arrogant, but he's also brave and never afraid to fight
for whome ever is a friend or dear to him

More Playable Characters to come

Spoiler: NPC's (at the moment)

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DYASTRA- The Master Shaman that leads the Councelling of Elmine's underground rituals,
he's the surviving legendary protector of the pleasantries of the forest

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SEEYAWS (a.k.a SYA)- SYA is one of the bravest moogles in Elmine village, he helped the Imperial
Empire fought wars by the use of his Axe skills. he's not only brave, but funny at the same time.

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Priestess Linoan- The Young High Priestess of Elmine's Sacred Cathedral, there is where Druids and Druidesses
are trained to become an honorifically bestowed Shamans. Linoan is once a Druidess in the past and
succeeded to become High Priestess

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Falberith: The Leader of the imperial empire, he's goal was to make an Ideal world without anymore plague... but what he's isn't going smoothly and is going with chaos.
lots of sacrifices were done with what he did.

(Seeyows will be a playable character soon.. and his faceset is temporary)

Spoiler: Screenshots

The Battle System
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Intro Pics.
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MAPS (done currently by Buprettyinpink/Meg)
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Features

Costume Animated Title Screen
Costume Animated battle system
Universal Message system
Grandia's Save Point System by eventing
Costume RTP-ish Menu system
RTAB Battle system
Some Characters have a fully costume sprited/modified Side View Battlers


Downloads
DOWNLOAD VERSION 2! (NEW!)
Download Old Version (v1)


Credits
  Scripting Credits:
Ccoa- UMS
Duvverman- Minkoff's battle system
Moghunter- For the Animated Title screen
Cogwheel- RTAB
Monkeydlu- for sharing them.

  Graphics Credits:
Dollmage- thanks for his Animated battler Templates! :lol: and also for the battler by him!
Green Raven- Thanks also for the battler templates, and also for the battlers by him!
Skye Fortress- of course, thanks also for her for the template.
Gozaru- for the wonderful facesets
Buprettyinpink/Meg- for some of town mapping designs originally made by her.
And Myself - For the Costum Animated battlers, Templates from the respective spriters mentioned.
 
  Audio Graphical Credits
Blue Laguna.com- for all the RPG game musics
Grandia1
FFX2/FF7
Threads of Fate



Notes
I feel the story is bad, but I'll try to modify some if needed..

and another final notice, this game was made out of RTP, I only wanted to make something good out
of RTP resources, but of course, the Battle System is Animated thanks to Minkoff, so it won't come
out as lame as the default battle system.

And The Animated Battlers that are done by me are Naoimi's battler, Lance's battler, Rose' Battler and, and Zack's battler....well of course with the
help of Greenraven's Templates. Drake's and Megan's are by Greenraven (Correct me if I'm wrong)

and here are my main influences:
1. Grandia1
2. Final Fantasy 7
3. Final Fantasy X2
4. Threads of Fate

Well I'll end by saying Criticism and Comments on my story/characters/Game Demo etc. are very welcome!

 

[Toams]

AAAH.
Now I'll have to get myself another font for the 'Nature's' part.. T_T
Doesn't matter, I was already planning that..

Anyway.. on to the comments..
The text on your title screen it isn't really standing out..
It's not very 'readable'..

Uh.. the screenshots look good.. perhaps a bit bare..
But they're only cutscenes and battles..
Got some map-screens?

Last, but not least, your story isn't exactly a story..
I suggest giving that spoiler the name 'History' or something, and make another containing the deal about the game..

Well, your topic looks pretty decent compared to what's out here..
Good luck on this, I hope you finish it. =]

 

[hellhound]

LOL, your right, The text is really unreadable.

oh and as you have said about the story and screenies, I updated them (added new map screenies) and I also edited the "Story" into the background history and added another spoiler for the exact Story for the game.

Thankyou also for the comments!

 

[second_crimson]

Okay, I know English might not be your first language, but even so...if you're making a game in English, it should be grammatically correct. You have quite a few errors (mainly in the story and description, since only one screenshot has actual story-related text)

Also, those battlers are very mismatched. Some of the bodies look smooshed, some just look low-quality, while all of them clash with the heads that look slapped on.

Your story is incredibly thin and kind of confusing.

And...how exactly is this Final Fantasy related? I saw the word chocobo once and you called a cat a moogle. Moogles = flying mole-bat things...not...cats...

 

[moog]

Ditch the Final Fantasy part, and tighten up the story a tad. Ill be reasonable with the English, but besides that just try to redefine a couple of things. Could you explain why this is a FF Fan Game?

Moogles = flying mole-bat things...not...cats...

We prefer winged advanced intellectuals

 

[hellhound]

@2nd crimson- I already said that the faceset of the moogle will only be temporary at the NPC section.

@Mooglesprite- I don't think If I'm going to change anything by Ditching th FF part, but I've already started it...and no worries, I'll try my best to put any FF Features I can. I'm aware that no one likes Fan Games, but still...

EDIT:

UPDATE! I removed the FF Part! I did what some of you said! ^_^ peace!

 

[moog]

It already looks more original. Ill keep my eye on this.

 

[hellhound]

Glad to hear that! ^_^

EDIT:

I edited Naoimi's appearances "Faceset, Battler, Charset etc." because I noticed some people in other forums I post my game are confused of she was really the real aeris and wondering that she revived after killed by sephiroth.

 

[hellhound]

UPDATE!:

Updated Naoimi's battler, and also Updated with a new playable/main character!.

 

[hellhound]

Updated Lance's battler!

 

[GrooveMan.exe]

Those in-battle sprites are thar inconsistent in style, and rather messy.

It looks like you stuck an RTP head on a side-scrolling sprite of completey different style (I'd guess Tales of the World 3), without trying to get them to match.

 

[moog]

I agree. The heads clash terribly with the ripped sprites. Also, Rose's got a Quazzi Moto slump goin' on. Might wanna fix that.

 

[hellhound]

Thanks for telling, I'll fix them if I have the time.

 

[hellhound]

Bump!

Who am I thinking to bump my game topic without an update?

sooo, I updated the Story to be fair, so whaddya think?

 

[hellhound]

Demo is now available! Updated first post!

please give comments and critiques after playing, thankyou!

 

[CeruSkye]

Wow, looks decent. I tried to download your demo, but my comp can't read the format. What did you save it as?

 

[hellhound]

I extracted it, hmm... it works fine for me, can you send me screenies on how it didn't work? or is there an error? or screenies on the file in your desktop? thanks!

 

[CeruSkye]

It just looks like a piece of paper with a folded edge. I'm on vista though, so you just never know.

 

[hellhound]

Now I see that, hmm... does your RMXP in your vista works well? and by folded paper, that must mean that the file couldn't be read, hmm, it's supposed to have an Icon of a sun that when you click it, a extraction window will show up... I'll try to see to it and see if others can play it on their vista, thanks for letting me know.

 

[hellhound]

Updated with a new playable character...

anyone care to try out the demo? pwease?