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Well someone knows how to use RPG Maker to make a game and it even looks good. The idea of gems giving various bonuses when placed in the cube is interesting. There is also a good idea that there are formations for your team that gives bonuses. Battle order and how many times you can attack before enemy gets his round depending on speed is also a nice change from most RPG Maker games. There exist normal attack and special attack skills and magic system so it is a plus. You can also use setting to make you defeat monsters much weaker than you automatically and that is great because you will be forced to do boring grinding and running between few towns/villages and this auto wins will help you.


I played better games made in RPG Maker. There are various games made in RPG Maker, but this is like a 10 hour game extended for 30 hours due to grinding. While the idea of gems giving various bonuses when placed in the cube is interesting, grinding them and making stronger ones from weaker ones and rotating and moving them so they can fit together like in Tetris is a time consuming and tedious process.

Humor in the game is often weak and on kindergarten level. 1/10 of skill names or jokes are funny. Most just makes you cringe.

Unfortunately, the worst thing in the game is the plot, which looks like it was written by a drooling boy who would like to be in the center of attention of all women and has some fetish related to dressing women in maid outfit (I had the impression that half of the women in the game wear maid outfits).


At the beginning, our main hero almost immediately becomes the object of desire for several women who travel with us and of course he is too stupid and unaware throughout the game to notice anything. Our companions are also typical one-dimensional and clichéd figures. We have a woman who loves us for many years and can’t control her emotions and is afraid to tell us she loves us, a goddess who thinks she is better than anyone else but we are the key for her to understand and appreciate humans and to find love, a strong woman who hides her weaknesses and does not want help and we are the key for her to find love and accept her weakness, and a woman that is a typical stalker and creep and loves us from the start. You see where this is going right? We are the best male to ever live and we are perfect for any woman ever. 4 one-dimensional characters depicting 4 cliché types of women.

Traveling, we defeat various monsters. Monsters are strange, because while the normal ones are ok, the special ones that we meet when traveling on world map with a different color can be overpowered. This strange colors can mean many things like that they attack 2 times before we can or we have 99% chance to miss them with anything else than magic but the worst are red ones. Red ones are really supposed to be only stronger versions of normal monster but most of the times are stronger than any boss in the game you meet so far and only the last boss is stronger than red monsters. It is stupid because the shadow deity could use these red monsters to just murder your party but instead he picked the weaker monsters to be bosses in most important locations. Imagine playing some D&D RPG where bosses are goblins and orcs but hundreds of dragons and lichs are running around the world and they kill you in random encounters when you travel.

At the end of the game is when the game falls apart completely. In the last 25% of the game we seem to try avoid fighting and killing guards in the kingdom just to kill hundreds of them a few minutes later, and suddenly for some reason 4 types of monsters that we previously defeated many times on the world map look the same as guards in the kingdom of which 2 look like people in armor, but the rest are ogres, which makes absolutely no sense looking at the situation described in the game. The game seems to get a bit lost, because first an important event took place a year ago, and then suddenly there is often talk about 2 years ago as if between our journeys that last a few weeks the whole year has passed, but our characters have the same age on their cards.


And while the normal ending is an OK ending, the so-called REAL ENDING is just silly SPOILERS -->, because suddenly we forgive everything that the shadow deity did, so we forgive that because of him the number of monsters increased several times and as a result many people died, that people began to sacrifice other people to him, and that he wanted to destroy all worlds. We forgive all that. What's worse, suddenly after that great forgiveness a new deity, a deity of creation enters the scene, which created the light deity and the shadow deity, and now this deity decides to destroy the world... And we have to overcome the next tedious stages of the game to fight this deity and by fighting it we can convince deity to not destroy the world... The deity wants to destroy the world and create it again by taking away peoples emotions because it accuses people that their emotions lead to wars and fights and murders so... it decides to murder everyone destroying everything unless we defeat him in fight... very logical x 1... And of course when we defeat the deity in battle that makes him no longer want to destroy the world, because how we fought and beat him showed him our love and friendship and good qualities of people... very logical x 2.... And what started the whole situation in the game? The fact that deity of light and deity of shadow can’t talk like anyone having a brain and both sides expect the other to guess everything they think and read each other minds while they have no such power… very logical x 3... Deities in this game looks like fools or idiots and to understand humans they need to speak with them but... they have never in all thousands of years ever speak with humans... very logical x 4... Because it's best for them to understand what friendship and love are not through conversation with humans but by fighting and getting their deity butts kicked... very logical x 5


If you want to buy and play an RPG Maker game there are many better games than this one so spend your money on some other game.


Overall score 3.5/10