The Rise of Chronos Chapter 1

[Ygdrassill]

The Rise of Chronos
Info: This is my first game ever made and so while it isn't a professional game or anything I am very happy with it and I hope you all also enjoy it as well. I am not expecting it to be
super fantastic or anything but I hope it is decent so any feedback and reviews or anything like that is super appreciated and needed as well as encouraged. 
 
DL Links: 
 
With RTP: https://www.dropbox.com/s/dwqmeuntkdgo5jw/Rise%20of%20Chronos%20%28With%20RTP%29.rar?dl=0
 
Without RTP: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jdxp3akziupajem/Rise%20of%20Chronos%20(Without%20RTP).rar?dl=0
 
 
 
 
Story and setting:
In the world of Morith there was an old story that was known all over the world. The story told of a war, a great and devastating war that plagued the world
for many years. It was a story about two kingdoms that lied in the far northern region of Galerin. There was the Kingdom of Alashu, who had 
been around for far longer than any other kingdom on the world at that time. The other kingdom was the kingdom of Aruin who was not as big as Alashu but was given a much greater task. Their task was to watch over a very powerful treasure, a treasure so powerful it could change the entire world for good or for worse. One day the new king of Alashu attacked Aruin out of nowhere, and launched a full scale invasion to acquire the treasure being hidden by Aruin. The treasure had the power to open a gate to the world of the demons, which was supposed to be forever sealed off from mankind. There was one person who stood above everyone else, and against all odds decided to fight back against the king and defend the world. He gathered warriors of the heavens and journeyed to end the war before it could cause any long lasting damage to the world. 


You play the role of this hero, you will enter the world of Morith and attempt to save a world that might be doomed to oblivion.
 
 
 
Characters:
 

 
Here we have the main character. He is a calm courageous fighter that is suddenly thrown into the middle of this great war. 
 
 

 
This is Legola, the best friend to the main character and wizard with great potential. While he is not confident in his own abilities and tends to shy away
from danger he has his friend there to give him courage and together they make an unstoppable team. 
 
 

 
Vixus is the leader of the great Monster Tamer clan and mayor of Viruso Village. Vixus is strong intelligent and a born leader always ready to take charge and never
ignores a challenge. 
 
 
 
 
Features and Screenshots
The game implements the common turn based battle system seen is most RPGs. There are 2 puzzles as well as a fishing mini game and 2 very very important side quests for the later chapters. A  day/night cycle has also been implemented and I am working on implementing alchemy for chapter 2 which would go along with fishing.   Another feature I added was the Stat EV training type thing like off of pokemon where you have items that can boost your stats permanently. Don't worry though as this is not op and the items are pretty well priced so it wont be something you can go sell a few items then boost your characters stats a whole bunch, I feel it is pretty balanced.  Also added a new bestiary accessible from the menu!
 
All in all I think the first chapter for a normal playthrough will give a good hour or two of gameplay maybe even 3 if you end up doing everything there is.
 
Lastly the screen shots
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 
 
DL Links
 
With RTP : https://www.dropbox.com/s/c6etg8qe618ewup/The%20Rise%20of%20Chronos%20%28With%20RTP%29.rar?dl=0
 
Without RTP: https://www.dropbox.com/s/70l2jiq80aa8q2k/The%20Rise%20of%20Chronos%20%28Without%20RTP%29.rar?dl=0
 
You can also follow my facebook page where I will post updated for chapter 2 and any other projects I am working on as well ^^ 
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ygdrassill-Gaming/1417946378493574?ref=bookmarks
 
 
Again any feedback is much appreciated and I hope to hear from you guys ^^!


Update: It has been some time since I worked on the game, I got a job irl and many other things have come up. I finally had some time to come back and after looking through my


work I found a lot of stuff to change. So after about a year with no update, here we go.


Updates:


Certain monsters have been nerfed.


Region map changed completely.


New tilesets for the towns.


Dialogue fixes.


Dialogue reduced in certain scenes.


Item fixes and balancing. 


Changes to certain maps. Residence in viruso, main characters house, chappel, weapon shop.


Added a new area, Frozen Oasis. 


Changed how you get the Old Blade for the first item for Death.


Changed the chances to encounter certain troops.


Zignifir is now easier to find.


Lockheart's Blade has less of a drop chance.


Edited the bestiary, more information is now displayed for monsters.


Decreased the file size as much as possible, (254 M fairly quick download.


I would like to note I have found some free time as of late and have began to continue chapter 2 of the story. However this is more of a side project as I have began creating a new game


with the new RPG Maker MV.

 

[Teneven]

This looks pretty cool! I'll send another after I play. But one thing is that, I noticed a few similarities, whether accidental or on purpose, I noticed them. Legola sounds a lot like Legolass, from the Lord of the Rings books/movies. The general plot (especially the use of the gate) sounds similar to From the Abyss. Of course there are major differences, but is this a reference an accident?

 

[Ygdrassill]

This looks pretty cool! I'll send another after I play. But one thing is that, I noticed a few similarities, whether accidental or on purpose, I noticed them. Legola sounds a lot like Legolass, from the Lord of the Rings books/movies. The general plot (especially the use of the gate) sounds similar to From the Abyss. Of course there are major differences, but is this a reference an accident?

First I wanna say thanks I appreciate you taking the time to try out my game ^^. On the plot I actually have never heard of From the Abyss so if I did doing anything similar I am sorry about that. On the other hand Legola is actually a play on Legolas from lord of the rings xD Im surprised someone got that, his name was the first one that came to my head for that character but I knew it couldnt be the same name so I mixed it up and used Legola . I hope to hear back on how you liked to game ^^

 

[Teneven]

I really like it! And, no you don't have to apologize, I would have seen it the same way I see the Lord of the Rings reference. I can appreciate references like that. And anyway now that I've played it, I know it's not like From the Abyss, a few things you said sounded similar. This game beats From the Abyss for sure though. One thing I've noticed is that when people base a character on someone from anime, movies, books, other games etc. often turn out to be terrible Frankenstein-ish hybrids. Legola is a solid character. 

Criticism; you might think about using some original sprites for the battle portraits. If you aren't any good at that, I can hook you of with an artist friend I have. In the battle against the general at the beginning, the portrait wasn't similar at all. More on that battle, if Judgement hit, and killed both Stadan (that's the name I used for the main character) and Legola, I wouldn't have wasted most of my revival items xD (can't remember what their called). Although that might have been a screwup on my part, haha.

The stealth and puzzle elements are nice touches. But with the jumping puzzles, I don't see any reason to press Z every time since you can't change direction. Although that's really minor.

I hope you keep on making such good games! I'll tell some of my friend who can't turn down a free RPG about this!

EDITS, are you on Twitter? I'll follow you and tag you in my post about this game.

 

[Ygdrassill]

I really like it! And, no you don't have to apologize, I would have seen it the same way I see the Lord of the Rings reference. I can appreciate references like that. And anyway now that I've played it, I know it's not like From the Abyss, a few things you said sounded similar. This game beats From the Abyss for sure though. One thing I've noticed is that when people base a character on someone from anime, movies, books, other games etc. often turn out to be terrible Frankenstein-ish hybrids. Legola is a solid character. 

Criticism; you might think about using some original sprites for the battle portraits. If you aren't any good at that, I can hook you of with an artist friend I have. In the battle against the general at the beginning, the portrait wasn't similar at all. More on that battle, if Judgement hit, and killed both Stadan (that's the name I used for the main character) and Legola, I wouldn't have wasted most of my revival items xD (can't remember what their called). Although that might have been a screwup on my part, haha.

The stealth and puzzle elements are nice touches. But with the jumping puzzles, I don't see any reason to press Z every time since you can't change direction. Although that's really minor.

I hope you keep on making such good games! I'll tell some of my friend who can't turn down a free RPG about this!

EDITS, are you on Twitter? I'll follow you and tag you in my post about this game.

Hey man thanks I am glad you played the game and liked it so much, one thing I did think I had was that after he killed the first person he killed the second person before they could use an item, I think I will have to change his speed because I did reduce some of his stats so that was probably it. The jumping puzzle was hard for me to do and I couldnt quite think of a way to do exactly what I was thinking but I know it is kind of weird.  I am glad you liked Legola, I wasn't trying to make copy legolas's character my any means so I am glad you didn't get that impression lol. 

Also I am on twitter but I almost never use it, Supra34 is my twitter. For the most part I use the facebook page that I setup. Also this is only the first chapter so the series is going to keep going, not sure if you got all the way through but that isnt where the story ends by any means. You will know you have beaten the first chapter because the ending credits will role . Lastly thank you for spreading the word I hope your friends also enjoy the game ^^.

 

[Teneven]

I have Facebook too, but it's the same deal as your Twitter, but worse, I don't have any friends that are interested in RPGs at all. I'll link to your Facebook, and to this page in my Tweet. I'll check out your Twitter, I might tag you, I'm not sure.

By the way, I've been wondering, what Yggdrasil are you referring to in your username?

 

[Ygdrassill]

I have Facebook too, but it's the same deal as your Twitter, but worse, I don't have any friends that are interested in RPGs at all. I'll link to your Facebook, and to this page in my Tweet. I'll check out your Twitter, I might tag you, I'm not sure.

By the way, I've been wondering, what Yggdrasil are you referring to in your username?

Yggdasill the tree from norse mythology, and thanks man yea makes sense, I hardly use any social sites really. 

 

[Teneven]

Cool, going down to the roots. Pun intended. Most people who reference it don't even know its origins. Their referring to Sword Art Online. Now don't get me wrong that's my favorite anime, but that's practically become the main version. A few ideas I had for the future of the series, take them or toss them, I don't care, it's your game, it's up to you.  Maybe, like in the Elder Scrolls and Final Fantasy games, you should span the series across multiple wars, and even across different main characters.  But don't ditch the ones you have too quickly, I don't mean make the next game 1,000 years later.

 

[Ygdrassill]

Cool, going down to the roots. Pun intended. Most people who reference it don't even know its origins. Their referring to Sword Art Online. Now don't get me wrong that's my favorite anime, but that's practically become the main version. A few ideas I had for the future of the series, take them or toss them, I don't care, it's your game, it's up to you.  Maybe, like in the Elder Scrolls and Final Fantasy games, you should span the series across multiple wars, and even across different main characters.  But don't ditch the ones you have too quickly, I don't mean make the next game 1,000 years later.

Hmm I think that sounds interesting actually, thanks for the idea man I will keep it in mind ^^, I agree also that most people seem to not know where the name is from its either lol off of SOA like you said or other games that have used the name before is usually what they say. 

 

[Kaiju Master]

I don't know if it was just my computer or if it is something in the game but I had taken it off of full screen mode and had it minimized then when I came back and popped it back up the game images scrambled up

 

[Teneven]

I'm not sure what you mean, but did you mean that when, you hit full screen it goes windowed, and vice versa? Just do the opposite. Also @Yggdrasil, the ab

ove was a glitch report I forgot to tell you. XD

 

[Teneven]

I'm not sure what you mean, but did you mean that when, you hit full screen it goes windowed, and vice versa? Just do the opposite. Also @Yggdrasil, the ab

ove was a glitch report I forgot to tell you. XD

 

[Teneven]

Sorry for the double post. My phone glitches up.

 

[Teneven]

Wow, I litterally just realized I never posted to Twitter. *facepalm* Sorry... I'll post as soon as I get on my PC next.

 

[Juliab]

I just finished playing part 1. Here's my thoughts.

Not bad for your first game.

Story a little rush and a little confusing.

You should expand a little more on Legola character, since so far the only thing that we know, he's a friend of the main character, nothing else (like where's he coming from, what is his history, background, etc).

The grammar is very bad. You should proofread it, or get someone else to test the game and correct grammar. I usually don't mind a few mistakes, but the game is full of misspelling and badly constructed sentences.

Otherwise, I enjoy playing it.

 

[Ygdrassill]

Wow, I litterally just realized I never posted to Twitter. *facepalm* Sorry... I'll post as soon as I get on my PC next.

Haha no worries, I actually haven't been able to use the internet much so sorry for the late reply as I got a job irl and moved states etc. Thank you again for playing my game


^^ I just got on vacation for a while and came back after a year break and went over the game and changed quite a few things. Just updated the dl links with the updates I made in the description. 

 

[Ygdrassill]

I just finished playing part 1. Here's my thoughts.


Not bad for your first game.


Story a little rush and a little confusing.


You should expand a little more on Legola character, since so far the only thing that we know, he's a friend of the main character, nothing else (like where's he coming from, what is his history, background, etc).


The grammar is very bad. You should proofread it, or get someone else to test the game and correct grammar. I usually don't mind a few mistakes, but the game is full of misspelling and badly constructed sentences.


Otherwise, I enjoy playing it.

Hi sorry for the super later reply, thanks for playing my game haha, I had just began moving and getting a job when you posted this so I never had time to get on here and check the comments. Im on vacation atm and finally have time to get back into all of this and now I am going back and editing the game again. Looking back now I know the dialogue was very rushed, I didnt really proof read it very well and I didnt put in the effort I should have. Right now I have gone back and updated a lot and am currently going over the dialogue and fixing as I go. Really that is the only thing that is left to do for the game. Legolas character gets expanded on a lot more in chapter 2 I did add in some more to get you an idea of legolas story and what his life has been like. For now tho most of that is written up in chapter two and up. 


Again thank you for playing my game and the feedback and I am glad you enjoyed playing it  sorry again for the late reply, IRL you know it can get crazy haha.