[DEMO] Dragon Fantasy: My Hero

[EphiamOricuna]

Game Page: http://www.rpgmaker.net/games/942/


Dragon Fantasy: My Hero.




Story:
The story of Dragon fantasy: My Hero is a lighthearted tale told through the eyes, ears, mouth and nose of a young adventurer named Leon. One day while adventuring through one of the nearby forests, he encounters a man by the name of Mr.Leopold the 24th, who mistakes him for the legendary Hero. However, Leon finds himself in quite the pickle when Leopold won't take "No" for an answer. And so our young protagonist is forced to take arms against an approaching evil--an evil that he himself may not be destined to face!




Gameplay:
Like the other games in the series, Dragon Fantasy: My Hero runs on an front-view battle system. However, unlike the first two games, this one is complete with spiffy graphics pulled straight from Dragon Quest 3-7. We've moved on from the NES and on to the SNES! How exciting.

Now on to the actual gameplay (just decided to include a bit about the graphics in here because I didn't think it deserved its own section). Now...some people may take a dislike to this, but that will not matter. It's not changing, so get over it. In this game, the party limit is one character: Leon! Yes, yes. I am trying to go for a sort of original Dragon Warrior approach, and it is proving to be quite fun! You know, a single hero against a single enemy with only a limited amount of spells and such. And though it was like that, the original Dragon Warrior/Quest still found a way to be highly addictive! Let's see if I can pull off something similar.



Screenshots:

Download:
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[dadevvtsvre]

I still haven't had time to finish the second one but this looks really good

The ripped tiles and sprites look really good, much easier on the eyes than the old NES pixels. Definitely trying this out when I get some free time. I don't think I've ever played an RPG with only one playable character so it'll be interesting to see how you handle it and how things work out.

Kind of a nitpick but still something you should take into consideration nontheless-Leon and Leopold are pretty similar names, so although I doubt it'll cause any sort of significant problems it might be a tad annoying in game having to distinguish between the names all the time.

 

[Emtch]

Very good. But... I think you should change the retina burning colors. Unless you're using a certain console palette, but it doesn't look like it.

 

[EphiamOricuna]

Now before you go in and expect an extravagent, state-of-the-art, one-man RPG: Stop! It's just a regular little game trying to mimic the simplicity of the very first Dragon Warrior. It did not use anything fancy, and limited you to a very select group of spells...and yet it still remained to be addictive! That's what I'm trying to go for here. The battles will rely more on...strategy. It will always be you versus a single enemy, with the enemy always being fairly unique (in the way you should take it down and avoid its attacks). Status effects willl definitly be a must!

Oh wow. Didn't expect the above to turn out to be so long! Hya ha. o_o;

Anywhoo, on to the next topic! And that would be...ah! The names. Well, you see, in the game they're fairly easy to distinguish. Leopold always has "Sir Leopold XXIV" and Leon just has "Leon."



And are you sure the colors are that bright? They look fairly dull to me, to be honest. Now I don't mean DULL, but...just not bright.