Project Raika [DEMO]

[ConstantReminder]

Okay, so any comments, tips, can help. If there is a problem with the file, please let me know so that I can fix it. Thanks~

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Thanks to:
Atoa: Side View Battle System Translation
Kain Nobel: Enemy Auto Leveling [they level up as your characters do]
All the sprite sites that I have found, and will be shown at the end of the demo.

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Story:
He was raised in a laboratory...he has wanted to escape from this prison all his life. He wanted to experience freedom. A woman named Julia, whom Skye has known all his life, wanted to set Skye free. Julia lied to the professor, Dias Monroe who was at the time in charge of the project. In a last attempt to save the child, she had told him that Skye was classified as one of the failed projects. All failed projects get disposed of...by any means necessary.

Julia took him to a forest that is close to an orphanage. There, she abandoned him. The boy the seeks refuge at the Venia Orphanage. A few months go by and Skye then gets adopted by another woman named Elena. From then on...Skye remembers very little of his disturbing childhood. Nightmares haunt his sleep... Skye starts a new journey...Like going to school, the Aleria GUILD Academy. But one day he discovers that he could either destroy, or be the salvation of this world called Ether.

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In town:

In Piana Cave:

A dream:

This is a demo. There are some bugs in the game, forgive me for that. The demo isn't very long.

DOWNLOAD GAME:

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http://www.fileplanet.com/files/200000/200505.shtml

CHARACTERS: [more to be posted as the game is created]

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Name: Skye Lyn Rionus
Age: 13
Birthdate: 10/15/2137
Sex: Male
Height: 4"8 [he is very short]
Weight:
Hair: Blond
Eyes: Navy Blue
Attitude: At times very mature for his age. He is shy, and meek, but can be aggressive, and has a strong sense of justice. He is very protective of his friends. Skye is a very curious individual. He likes to check out anything that is new to him. Skye can act very childish at times. Skye has problems trusting others.
Birth Place: Aleria Laboratories
Nationality: Unknown
Job: Student

Name: Jeffery Rey Valan
Age: 22
Birthdate: 2/13/2115
Sex: Male
Height: 5"11
Weight:
Hair: Silver Grey
Eyes: Amber
Attitude: Jeff curses alot. But he is very polite to his elders, and his fellow offericers. His temper can flare at any moment. He hates people who complain alot. He keeps his emotions in check, and all of his pain to himself. He can be sometimes hard to get along with, but he is a powerful ally.
Birth Place: Maranda
Nationality: Eastian
Job: Mercenary

A curse at birth? That's what Jeff believes he is. When he and Shane were both children, Jeff had used a unique power that no one, not even the guild had seen before. But when he did this, he had destroyed his entire village, including his parents and scarred his older brother for life.

Jeff knows Shane hates him. But for some reason Shane has never held it againest him...Shane never speaks of the past. Ever.

After the incident had happened, Shane had locked Jeff in a closet, and refused to talk to him, and to feed him. Shane's superiors had learned of this grand new ability, and the potental for a new pawn for the Guild. So when Jeff requested that he be enlisted into the ranks of the GUILD, they let him without even taking th test, telling him that he had great talent.

 

[ShadowMainZERO]

Something about this seems cleched but I can't put my fingure on it... A couple of questions though:

1. Why is it called Tales of Raika when the boy's name is Skye?

2. Your download source doesn't like. I can't download your game.

 

[ConstantReminder]

1. There is a reason its called Tales of Raika. You will understand as I make more progress through the games development.

2.I don't understand what you mean about the file. Is something wrong with the website?

 

[moog]

I dont understand pretty much anything about this story and the mapping is sort of bland. Who is who and what is what?

 

[killergermel]

Emm okay as far as the gameplay goes its pretty good.
I have to point out, alas, that I don't like your system choice, because when you have your marker on something in a menu, it turn from white to transparent, and when its white you cant see what is written.
The fights are pretty easy, a bit too easy... Skye has just came to class and already starts to fight demons? and howcome he does more damage then the pink haired chick? he just came to class... and what about the two other students why didn't they kill anything?
As for this demo I think you deserve about 8.5/10 - your gameplay is good, but you have some improvements to be done. Besides what I said above I suggest you get a good battle system.
Another bizarre thing was that while helping Jeff kill the monster his name in the battle is "Jeff"... The heroes don't know his name the same as we don't know the names of the characters in Skye's dream at the beginning, I hope you'll fix that.

Your storyline and conversations: you have some flaws there. Meka chick tells her mother she's going to save the town by fighting off demons and her mother doesn't ask anything, doesn't seem to worry or anything, something I find strange.
You wrote "Skye has problems trusting others" and yet after talking about 3 sentences to Meka he has no problem going over to her house... It doesn't seem like a typical behavior for an untrusting person...
Another thing that bothers me is that Skye was shocked that he needs to fight some minor demons but when he heard the loud roar he didn't back off and didn't even think of running away. If I were him, frightened of a small fight against a couple of bats, I would have crapped in my pants seeing that dragon.
The demo is supposed to introduce you to the plot and the characters, but we know nothing, absolutely nothing about Jeff, and almost nothing about Skye except that he has weird dreams. You showed his shy side pretty well but nothing more. And for the storyline, I know nothing about it, except that those monsters are attacking the village and kill the townsmen for no apparent reason... Almost always there is enough meat in the storylines of other game and I can say whether it sounds like a good storyline or just a cliche, here I can't say anything, I don't know anything...
I can't mark this field - X/10.

Music and soundtrack: try not to use RTP music and especially RTP sounds, I've come to hate those sounds... Here you deserve a mark of about 8/10.

Graphic and mapping: Some maps are a bit too empty, including the guild academy map, you could have designed this map a bit less symmetric. I hate symmetry, it looks like you wanted to design the second half of the map but then gave up and decided to do the same map just on the right and with blue tiles on the roof of the academy. Don't do it, it doesn't look natural and buildings are usually not symmetric. I saw it also in the classroom, where there were 2 clocks... 2 clocks? I don't know why...
Another disturbing thing - the use of RTP tilesets. I'm really REALLY sick of that town tileset, it is a big down to the game.
But in spite this the houses in the town are pretty well mapped, good job for that.
This section gets the mark of 7/10

Overall: the demo is pretty good. I don't really like the atmosphere of the game, probably because of the tilesets and mapping. try to make the conversations with the characters less superficial and have more content. That's about it, the game is pretty good but there is still a pretty long way till the completion of the game I believe. I hope you will learn from this comments and try to improve yourself, I see good potential in you.
I think your demo deserves about 7.5/10.

 

[ConstantReminder]

Thank you very much. I will take your advice, and fix all the flaws you've seen in the game. This is my first RPG. I'm really a noob when it comes to things about it.