Super Mario RPG: The Nova Shards Journey

[MarioSuperStar]

General Details

Previously Called: Super Mario RPG: The Star Bits Journey
Engine: RPG Maker XP
Genre: RPG
RPG Type: Mario RPG
Graphic Style: Mario and Luigi Bowser's Inside Story
System Style: Hybrid Mario RPG

Developers

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MarioSuperStar
DarkSunset

Story

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One day our blue toad, Toadbert, goes to the Mushroom Kingdom's Observatory(Yeah, they have one, surprise.), to study constellations for an unknown reason. Guided by Dr. Toad(Who is the keeper.), they fail to find any. Then, a mysterious stellar body passes through the observatory's telescope vision. Shocked, they run towards the castle to announce Princess Peach that a mysterious stellar body has crashed into a remote location, Mushroom Valley. Peach then sends one of his many-look-equal-like toads to search for Mario(and probably Luigi). Knowing of the nes, Mario heads to the castle leaving his borther behind, who was was sleeping at the time and will not awake. Luigi then awakes and the heads for the castle too by being informed by a familiar paratroopa in a letter, which then flies away and leaves Luigi on his way.

Characters

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Mario: The hero of the Mushroom Kingdom. Saved Princess Peach from the claws of Bowser many times. He is brave and courageous. His overalls give the right impression he is a plumber.
Luigi: Mario's little brother. Unlike Mario, Luigi is scary, and tries to avoid fights, but sometimes he encourages himself to do some brave stuff.
Princess Peach: In this time, Peach is not Kidnapped(yay!), she at the time doesn't play a greater role than being the princess of the Mushroom Kingdom. Tries to help Mario but is always stopped by Toadsworth.
Toadsworth:Peach's stewards, which he always tries to protect Peach.
Toadbert:A male Toad who has started on studying gastronomy. He is cowardly like most Toads, but at least his cosmical knowledge helps the bros. to understand the situation.

Game Features

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Hybrid Partner System
Hybrid Battle System
Recipe System
Badges
Emblems(This is a new type of equipment.)
Guard and SuperGuard Commands
Overworld Commands
Battle Timed Hits

Videos

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Battle Teaser
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKrjy7HLrrk
Cutscene #1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndhk3wCYPRE

Note: Other videos related are outdated.

Beta ScreenShots

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Credits

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-Scripts
SBS Takentai 2.2xp by Atoa(And all other correspondants of the script)
Hero and Event Frame Script 1.1 by the Sleeping Leonheart
Anti-Lag Script by f0tz!baerchen
Advanced Event Commands by Silver Wind
Advanced Message Script R4 by Dubealex
=Everything else (custom-made or edited) scripts were by us.=
-Special Thanks to:
U and C Division(Programming Support)

Comments? Critics? Suggestions?
It is all taken into consideration.

 

[Necrile]

I'm playing through Bowser's Inside Story right now, so this topic gave me a hard-on. I want to see more, dammit.

 

[MarioSuperStar]

This game isn't related to any of the mario rpg's. maybe characters appeared in some of them, but that's all.
thanks for your opinion.

 

[The Law G14]

When I saw the use of a side-view battle system with Mario I thought this was going to be bad, but after looking at the video, the battle system actually works great with it! You did a good job! (Did you code it?) Overall this game looks really good and I'm going to have to try it out as soon as possible. Great job!

 

[MarioSuperStar]

oh btw, the commands are scripted rather than being used in common events.
we used the enu sbs takentai 2.2xp as base, but the differences you see from that system were scripted by us.
o lol, i forgot to add the credits.

 

[Necrile]

Any idea on a release date?

 

[MarioSuperStar]

in a month or two if i am lucky.

 

[udivision]

Advertising your game now, I see? Looks like you're getting closer to the demo, I hope.

 

[DarkSunSet]

Advertising your game now, I see? Looks like you're getting closer to the demo, I hope.

Yep UD we are expanding our fangame to oher forums I hope you dont mind, also yeah very soon.....

 

[MarioSuperStar]

Advertising your game now, I see? Looks like you're getting closer to the demo, I hope.

I hope so too. ^_^ I guess we won't work until we're on vaccation.

 

[MarioSuperStar]

Each month(this doesn't include this one), I'll post a screenshot to show the project isn't dead.

 

[DarkSunSet]

yeah at least that will raise the hopes of the ones who would like to test and play it not like some games that leave people waiting too long without any updates about their games....

 

[MarioSuperStar]

Now that today is a new month, have here some screens of what we have been working.

An extravagant pipe let's the Bros. to be controlled separately to solve special puzzles.

Shows a sample of how overworld commands might be.

 

[MarioSuperStar]

Whoops! Forgot to update!

Almost everything there's from scratch.

 

[udivision]

Quite an awesome worldmap, I must say.

 

[AeroLowe]

Im-freaking-pressive.

You should still be updating this! What happened?

 

[MarioSuperStar]

I haven't got any free time in my hands, so to show everyone this is not dead, here's a
little spoiler:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXkaNmUY5Uw

 

[carlosgod]

Not dead? it seems dead.

 

[MarioSuperStar]

Well, it's hard to keep this project up to date, but I'm trying my best to work on it
as much as I can. I am sorry if I can't show any proof of it.

 

[MarioSuperStar]

We're currently in the testing state of the demo, so the demo should not take long until it is released.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv-F7QPsJ_g