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Find Lako and Miruko two new names...(Or post in topic your own idea)

  • Mars and Venus

    Votes: 3 25.0%
  • Loren and Laria

    Votes: 2 16.7%
  • Ewan and Amelie

    Votes: 4 33.3%
  • Conrad and Cassandra

    Votes: 3 25.0%
  • Let the player decide ALL the names

    Votes: 5 41.7%

  • Total voters
    12
Zoro the Gallade

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1-Story

The world had gone through three Ages.
The continente of Domo, after millennia of peace, overlooked by the bright light of the four Flames, was unaware of being about to be

shadowed by the Death Wing Reaper...
But the God of Sheer Flames had chosen otherwise.
True to his will, two valiant warriors would have risen to spare the world from the incoming menace...
Soaring on the strong wings of Courage and on the graceful wings of Purity, they'd have accepted the burden of the world's destiny...


This is the legend of Mount Domo's Slate, the most mysterious and famous artifact in the continent...the legend that was carved on it a fateful night, in which the legend echoed through every true heart...

Nineteen years later...

Mars is a brave Dragon warrior, and has been entrusted the ward of the Fire Flame's Sanctuary.But sudden as a storm, a dark organization called Memento Mori, claiming to aim to resurrect the mighty demon Thanatos, attack his hometown and put down the

Flame.
Ever since then, pursuing the Memento Mori, Mars will venture throug the Earth, Wind and Sea Kingdom, in his struggle to avoid the sacred Flames to be seized.
In his travels he'll be aided by precious allies, as Jupiter the Hunter,Capt.Neptune and his stepsister Venus.
Eventually, side by side, our heroes will have no other choice than to face Thanathos himself in the last battle...

1-Main Races
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Humans
The most widespread race in Domo and surroundings.Except for Elven woods and few other places, their cities and villages can be found in any point of Domo.
Because of the continent being split in four Kingdoms, each population grew in a different way from the influx of its Flame, with behaviors tending to either good or evil: the Fire people learnt the arts of smithing and war, the Sea People sailing and piratery, the Earth People magic and Necromancy, the Wind People technology and artiliery.
They're slowly corrupting due to the Evil energy starting to imbue the lands...

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Elfs
These gentle creatures once inhabited prosperous cities on the villages and woods borders, but in the latest centuries Humans forced them to flee deep in the deepest woods, creating a community that's completely unaware of the events happening in the world.
They have a deep respect for all the creatures, and it is against their creed to kill a being if not in a strict life or death matter.This is why they're not very advanced in crafting or use of weapons.

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Dragons
Once a clan of noble warriors imbued with the power of fire, Dragons inhabited Domo for many decades.Though, overwhelmed by the Human's numbers and technology, most of them disappeared in the bowels of earth.The few dragons that chose to live on the surface stayed anonymous, and slowly faded away.
Although seeing dragons is inusual, not having ever had open war with the humans, Mars and Saturn don't get the people's hatred or fear, but mere curiousity.

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Falcos and Sirens
A most ancient race, and also the only non-human people to control part of a kingdom, they're gallant knights with ever-youthful beauty and graceful candid wings.
Wise and brave, also valiant in battle,they've been respected and feared for centuries.
Their power is dwindling but most of the Wind Kingdom is under the wise government of queen Zephira.

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Lycan
A nearly-extincted race.Folk tales tell of them as fierce hunters resembling partly to humans, partly to wolves.
Their slow technological evolution made them subdued to Humans, until they were chased away from civility, until they became a mere fairy tale.
Still though, some of the most reckless explorers bring Lycan corpses from the depths of the woods or the highest mountain tops.But many who sought to hunt them didn't make it back.

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Vampires
An old family of aristocrats, it's the least-known race of Domo.
Having always lived with other dark creatures in the farthest corners of the continent, they haven't even noticed the event of the latest times.
They have a neutral behavior and long-lasting traditions.

Lesser Races
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Fairies
Timid creatures that wander around giving out happiness to the pure of heart.Rarely, some of them choose to bind themselves to people they've grown attached to, also binding their lives together:if its companion dies, so will the fairy.

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Imps
Night-borne creatures living in shadows.Many of them are just mischievous, but some loyally serve Thanathos.Keep your guard up!
Young shamans sometimes go hunting imps hoping to make them become their companions, but often end up as victims of their mischievous tricks.
Like fairies, their life will depend on the bonding with their masters.

3-Characters:


Heroes

Note:All of the names are editable, these are just the default names.
Mars
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Race:Dragon
Class:Dragon
Elem.:Fire
Weapons:Sword,Spear,Axe
Skills:Mostly physical Fire and Wind attacks, special weapons techniques.
Age:18
Height:1m87
Blood:AB
Background:He has no clue on who his parents were.He always lived in Venem Village, where the swordmaster Kinian taught him basics of fighting and magic.He's about to complete his training and officially become a Warden of the Flame, but he's suddenly thrown in an unexpected adventure...
Demeanor:Friendly, although he often doesn't trust people he hasn't met before.He's valiant in battle and always has his companions' support.

Saturn
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Race:Dragon
Class:Ninja
Elem.:Fire
Weapons:Knife, Katana
Skills:Minor Fire and Wind attacks, Throwing skills.
Age:16
Height:1m65
Blood:B
Background:The only pure-blooded dragon (Mars's mother is a Siren) still living on Domo's surface: found by Kinian as a baby near the mother's corpse, she was entrusted to a friend of his in Razel Town.Many years later she was called back to Venem by Kinian, who meant to have her join Mars and know the story of her race.The Memento Mori's attack won't leave him enough time to do so.
Demeanor:Although blind by birth, she doesn't seem to have many problems.But she's actually fragile and in costant need of a trusted person to entrust herself to.She hadmires Mars and has a crush on him, but tries not to show him.

Mercury
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Race:Human
Class:Apprentice
Elem.:None
Weapons:Rod, Wand
Skills:Fire, Wind, Water, Dark and Earth magics, his Exeo spell can send the party back to the last town visited.He's a good cook.
Age:14
Height:1m50
Blood:0
Background:His parents are divorced.His father left home leaving him alone with his mother in Venem, that died few months later.
He eventually found a job that let him live on his own.
He knows from his brother that his father is passing by the nearby fort of Rume.As Mars, who he saved and cured, has to pass by Rume in his pursuit of Memento Mori, he asks him to be his companion for some time, though he'll eventually join him for the rest of the story.
Demeanor:A troubleseeker indeed, wherever Mars goes he's always ready to aid him, for dangerous it can be; he calls him "boss". He often gets into serious troubles...

Venus
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Race:Siren
Class:Healer
Elem.:Water
Weapons:Rod
Skills:Healing and Water magic, Wind attacks.She can sing several songs to support the team.
Age:17
Height:1m75
Blood:AB
Background:Daughter of the Queen of Wind Kingdom, Zephira, and thus stepsister of Mars.
Grown and educated as a princes, she's suddenly ordered to sail to Fire Kingdom.She's attacked by pirates and held captive.The pirates decide to attack another ship...where they're greeted by our heroes.
Demeanor:Very clever.Although a bit snob at the beginning, she's so deeply touched by the events that happen she'll change greatly.She's really attached to Mars and somewhat jealous of Saturn...

Jupiter
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Race:Lycan
Class:Ranger
Elem.:Earth
Weapons:Knife, Bow
Skills:Special arrows, martial arts
Age:20
Height:1m90
Blood:B
Background:Lycans were thought extinct..until one day, a lonely, weary and confused foundling arrived by the elven village of Ankara.
Friendly accepted in the village, Jupiter grown into a strong warrior, until he was given the duty to guard the village
He attacks Mars's group as they try to enter the village.Beaten, he'll plead for them to the other villagers to let them pass.
After leaving Ankara, he'll catch up with them just out of the woods.
Demeanor:Much silent.He doesn't like talking about himself and he often changes topic when it comes about that.
Though, deep in the nights he can be heard sobbing.
Venus is really attached to him, and will leave some breath to Mars and Saturn...

Uranos
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Race:Human
Class:Shaman
Elem.:Light
Weapons:Rods,Souls
Skills:Summoning, Healing magic.He can perform Spirit Fusion.
Age:19
Height:1m82
Blood:0
Background:He was forced to kill his girlfriend Erika once he found out she was turning into a zombie.The people of his village, Tundari, found out and imprisoned him, tortured him and cut off his tongue as punishment for the murder.Only thanks to Mars, that will summon Erika back from spirit world for him and have her witness, he'll avoid certain death.
Demeanor:He's lonely, his tortures and mutilation made him mute.Erika speaks in his place.He's possessive with her.

Neptune
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Race:Human
Class:Pirate
Elem.:Water
Weapons:Guns
Skills:Ballistic attacks with firearms, Tactical skills to improve the party's efficiency.
Age:27
Height:1m92
Blood:A
BackgroundBorn and grown on a ship, Neptune has long been a strong soldier, until a cannonade during an ambush cut his arm to the shoulder.Since then, he became an inventor:among his creation the Ton-3x, a mechanical arm to replace the one he lost and on which he can mount a firearm, the airship Gaia, and AGB, hovering boards that let even who's unable to fly fight in the air.
The party crashes on the Gaia from a fall from the top of Astral Tower.Mars shares important intel about Memento Mori with him, so he decides to fight again against evil.
Demeanor:Tempered in body and soul from past battles.Even in the direst situation he won't lose control.He has a strong leadership, and sometimes quarrels with Mars about it.

Gaia NPC
These NPC can be found and hosted on the Gaia through subquests once you have it.Each has an unique duty.
Rei
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Background:Mercury's silbling, he got into troubles while looking for his father...
Duty:Tempers weapons to make better ones.

Vivian
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Background:A witch apprentice that dropped by Tundari after Christian's scandal, of course she's not so well-greeted...
Duty:Uses apparently useless ingredients to automatically craft Potions, Scrolls and Signets.

Aron
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Background:A wannabe shaman that wanders around with his sidekick imp Violet
Duty:Slowly improves all Spirit's Affinity.
Under construction...
4-Fan Art


5-Gameplay

Over 300 Monsters and lots of bosses

Craft System:Cooking food and making Potions out of enemy spoils and basic ingredients.

Temper:Don't throw your old equipment away!You can fuse it with some special elements to improve it!

Spirit Fusion:Some Bosses will drop special souls the heroes can Fuse themselves with to gain a new class, new powers and improved stats depending on the spirit's Affinity (how much he likes or dislikes the party).With max Affinity, it is possible to summon them directly against the enemies

A Legendary Weapon awaits each Hero...

You can use the Gaia to travel through cities

Buyable upgrades for Gaia:Kitchen, forge, special hull to cross sea, boosters to fly over mountains.

Colosseum mode at the end of the plot guest-starring from famous RPGs...

6-Screenshots
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Credits

The forum where the game was first conceived:www.rpg2s.net

Scripts by mikb89
 
I'm pretty sure that it's a rule for you to have two screenshots when you post here.

Also, your character names sound really wapanese and out of place for the most part. The two art pictures (I assume) you didn't draw don't really mesh well and throw things off when looking at them together. (Seriously, how is the art "Mostly not done by me"?)

I didn’t really bother reading the character bios aside from the second wapanese cast member Sara Kurama, and I hate to toss this word around so easily but it feels kinda cliché. The characters seem to have the same personality as every other rpg cast, but I guess I would need more info on them than that to really gauge anything.
 
Magicant":1l07xodg said:
I'm pretty sure that it's a rule for you to have two screenshots when you post here.

Also, your character names sound really wapanese and out of place for the most part. The two art pictures (I assume) you didn't draw don't really mesh well and throw things off when looking at them together. (Seriously, how is the art "Mostly not done by me"?)

I didn’t really bother reading the character bios aside from the second wapanese cast member Sara Kurama, and I hate to toss this word around so easily but it feels kinda cliché. The characters seem to have the same personality as every other rpg cast, but I guess I would need more info on them than that to really gauge anything.

I translated it wholly from my old topic, and it had those names since the old forum I was on was mostly about JRPG...so I still need to adapt many things, like the names.
As for bios and plot...well I don't think they're too clichè, and beside, the other char's bios aren't of the same kind.I tried to write the storyboard so that there were a good range of several demeanors.

EDIT:Here, I posted some screenshots.I have been changing lots of stuff like charsets and windowskins lately, so I wanted to have the screens show a more definite idea of the game...
 
Too bad I've only seen the plot and some scenes of it...but I really admit it gives quite a horror-like interpretation of the "werewolf"...anyway, this is what Rex's faceset looks like (Hope the spoiler issue is fixed soon..)
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Zoro the Gallade":3r2sp76q said:
Too bad I've only seen the plot and some scenes of it...but I really admit it gives quite a horror-like interpretation of the "werewolf"...anyway, this is what Rex's faceset looks like (Hope the spoiler issue is fixed soon..)
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The werewolves in Underworld 2 were good.
That's pretty much it.
Personally I'd encourage you to think up a more original name for the race, but it's your story so I won't badger you about it.
 
Terrible movies aside, the name honestly didn't bother me very much. The movie Underworld didn't invent the word "Lycan", it's just a spinoff the word "Lycanthropy". I don't imagine "Lycan" even means werewolf since "Lycan" means wolf and "Thropy" means human... I think.
 
Magicant":2avqmves said:
Terrible movies aside, the name honestly didn't bother me very much. The movie Underworld didn't invent the word "Lycan", it's just a spinoff the word "Lycanthropy". I don't imagine "Lycan" even means werewolf since "Lycan" means wolf and "Thropy" means human... I think.
You are correct.
 
Zoro the Gallade":tvcnfipm said:
Actually, it's made up of the Greek words Lykòs (wolf) and antròpos (man)...

Ok? We weren't exactly talking about deep Greek root origins, but that's fine.

Back on topic; your screenshots are pretty mediocre. The wolves don’t look good with the humanoid sprites, the map in general is pretty bad consisting of weird looking grass, and glossy mud path? (The map also looks too square). The characters room is really barren and lifeless, and the green tile doesn’t mesh well with the pink carpet at all. Though I think the pink carpet is just bad in general… It’s good that you added screenshots, but it looks like you need to invest more time into your maps to make them look nice.
 
I know, I've only made a part of the features and storyline and now I'm focusing mostly on mapping.If you look in the screenshot topic, I'm also fixing some of those things that don't mix well together (the ones you stated are only few of them).
 
Mmm... i've already read about your project in the previous topic... well... the story is a little empty right now... the idea of the giant and terrible thanatos... well... i don't really like it... from the beginning you know what you've to do, no surprises...
And... why the hero decide to go after the thanatos? O.O cause that guild have destroid his temple? mmm... not a big reason for risc his life don't you think?

anyway... i've seen that you've take the faceset from "emblem of fire" you can't simply resize them and put into the project, whit that giant pixel... it's not good to see :\ and for the icon of the race... they're from "yakusoku no chi riviera" known also as "riviera, the promise land" good choise... that game have a nice graphic... but also for this... the graphic is good for an rm2k game, not for an rmxp game... cause here you use 640x480, and this resized graphic... mmm... i don't know how to explain me XD


Here there's the translation in italian (our zoro the gallade is italian you know ;)
ti scrivo anche in ita... ok Zoro? ^.^ visto che in inglese non me la cavo molto bene almeno così capisci le mie critiche :P

Ho gia letto qualcosa sul tuo progetto nel vecchio forum che hai brutalmente abbandonato XD
la storia è piatta... non ha niente di particolare, e poi dici da subito che dovrai inseguire il thanatos... che gusto c'è se levi tutti i colpi di scena sul finale? : | cioè... rendilo un tantino più segreto il boss finale... prendi esempio dai final fantasy (FF8, artemisia scappa fuori un sacco avanti - FF9, alla fine c'è il colpo di scena di trivia - FF7, sephiroth si scopre essere cattivo e che poi erano solo copie) c'hai tanti di quegli esempi... (non te ne uscire di nuovo con cavolate, io non copio perchè son figo =.='' perchè non se reggono quelle stupidaggini).
Poi... l'eroe... insegue sto thanatos... perchè? perchè gli ha distrutto il suo ordine cavalleresco o quello che è? per vendetta? ma chissene... dagli un legame in più, detto così non ha senso che insegua sto thanatos, chiunque altro può farlo :\ e lui non ha nessuna motivazione in più degli altri... solo sta cosa della gilda distrutta...

Poi la grafica... i chara sono sgranatissimi, non puoi prendere la grafica di Emblem of Fire e ridimensionarla così... non se po vede... cmq son carucce le icone affianco alle razze di "yakusoku no chi riviera"
Tutta la grafica che haipreso va bene per un gioco fatto con rm2k... non per un gioco rmxp, perchè l'hai brutalmente ridimensionata facendo un casino di pixel giganti :\ e daje almeno una riadattata... un minimo in pixelartist ci sarai fare no? =.=''
 
Don't mind this guy,please... he says I just "resized" the facesets?Well nope, I just took the FE style, the rest is just made by me and inspired to the faceset.

The story is a bit boring and undetailed?Well, come back after you know how to write one that isn't the classic "average boy that discovers amazing powers and ends up saving the world".And I don't want to spoil a major plot twist...

The race icons?I made them myself!
 
ok, is not good to talk like this to other users that are trying to help you out : |
anyway... i don't mind it...
the two last icon are from yakusoku, i'm sure about this... i've played it till the end for several times... and i'm not wrong, go out and see around for them, you'll find the screen of the game and that imp whit the skite and the other angel... surelly...
for the other icons, i don't think that you've made them by yourself... cause if you've made them by yourself you should do better also the facesets... and, i haven't told that the faceset are wrong cause they're copied, but cause you've resized them whitout improve them after the resizing... and like this you see that giant pixels... that in my opinion are really bad...
i don't understand why you're flaming me :\ i've no reason for engage a war whit you... i don't want truble, stop that pls.

P.S. Anyway, don't talk like this about my project, cause you haven't read it at all :\ and you can't told anything, not here.

non trattarmi in questo modo, io sto cercando di darti una mano al contrario di quel che pensi te, e sparare a mille sugli utenti è un atteggiamento veramente riprovevole : | abbassa la cresta.
cmq... chissene...
le ultime 2 icone, dell'imp con l'ascia e dell'angelo sono da yakusoku, non dire cazzate lo so per certo : | le altrei cone non le hai fatte te XD perchè se le avessi fatte te sarebbero state più coerenti l'una con l'altra, quando invece non si chiappano nemmeno un po, e in più se avevi fatto queste da solo, anche i facesets li avevi fatti meglio, invece c'è un abisso fra il lavoro delle icone e quello dei facesets... per quanto riguarda i facesets non ho detto che hai fatto male a copiarli, ma a non riadattarli come si deve ad una grafica 640x480, perchè tutti copiano, non puoi fare un gioco senza prendere risorse altrove... e non si flamma sugli altri utenti, non è un atteggiamento maturo, quindi vedi di piantarla

P.S. evita di parlare del mio progetto senza averlo nemmeno letto, non si sparano giudizi senza conoscere i fatti, sei il primo fra tanti critici colmi di cattiveria che mi fa di queste critiche, ma nessuna come questa, il che dimostra che non hai nemmeno letto
 
Ah...Adrammelech bless the Ignore function :p now he'll be no more than a voice in my head.

By the way, thanks to everyone for polling.I guess the best thing is letting the player choose the names of all the heroes, so I will.I'll give them some default names though, so that I don't have to reiterate "The Hero" "The Heroine", "The Mage" etcetera.
 

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