So I did a google search and holy shit these guys make a shit ton of RPG Maker games.

>>3657054
Yeah, i played quite a bit of their games and while some like Book of Legends and Sylia were mid, the 2 Milenium ones i played, Asguard and Dreamscape were quite good, not to mention that i really enjoyed the Laxius Force ones except maybe the second one that felt a bit inuintitive at times even if it was as full of content as LF 1 and 3

>>3656976
I only played Laxius Power 2 from a gaming mag disc in my teens, didn't understand anything but had fun, how are the Laxius Force games? Lots of fanservice?

I, too, need to know the truth about these games. From what I've seen, they're absurdly overhated.

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>3657497
OP here
I have played all 3 and will say that they are bursting at the seams with sidequests, secret areas and equipment, mind you it's not necesary to do them all to progress but if you don't explore and do some of them you may find yourself underleveled for some of the main story bosses.
Besides that i would say there's not that much fanservice but the story is interesting and there's a bit of funny moments, i think one of my main gripes is that there's a LOT of misseable content, nothing game breaking but you could inadvertidly miss out on some good playable characters and once you finish a chapter or pass throught certain areas that have chapter boss vibe that's it no backsies to get what you missed, despite that like i said there's shitton of things to do and you can get a bit lost and need the guide sometimes, only ever happend to me in the first one where you need to ''jump in'' where they ask you what to do close to the locked door of the sciency place and on a part of the third one that was a bit confussing.
Gameplaywise it's basically tipical rpgmaker game with some extra status effects like A LOT extra and the combat is fast paced with lots of enemies and a lot of party members wich each feels unique in their own ways even if some are obviously superior to others.
About the games in specific i would say that the first one is the best of the 3 with the third one close second due to the story getting to the conclussion of the major plot threads and the developer throwing tons of wacky shit, with the second one wasn't as good as the first or the third, it's not bad but more that it felt more constrained and while there was some GREAT moments like when one of the characters was deeply affected by something that happend some people close to them or when we see the aftermath of one of the big bad weapons.

>>3657526
Cheers anon

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not OP here. I played these back in the day and they hurt me on some level that made me replay them a bit ago.

>>3657497
The series is one guy who was ranting about manlets before incel was a word's attempt to make Trails out of RPGmaker defaults.
if you find the idea of a guy named Random Pendragon and his harem of sex slaves solving JRPG plots funny, that's your start. The games have a surprising amount of time spent laughing at itself, even.

like OP said the games are packed full of content. some of it feels like you need a guide or it runs on adventure game logic
they also have horrendous pacing and will make you do 50+ trash encounters per dungeon. its gameplay feels like a CRPG in a way where it has the downsides of both.

also the way the game handles itself can be interesting at times just because the author has no clue what he's doing. normal JRPG beats get resolved abnormally. scenes that should be massive power-ups end up making your characters weaker in gameplay.

so they're like 6 to 7/10 games with some massive highs and lows. they at least stand out from the piles of rpgmaker slop by bordering on outsider art

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>>3656976
so OP I did play it.
The plot is about as unhinged. Maybe more, there's more dream sequences.
It's long, took me about 30h, and it's very linear. You don't have any control over your party members at all. The combat doesn't feel too excessive and you still do get to click on every wall to find secrets.

Basically the only reason I could recommend it is if you had a friend send you the game out of spite like I did.

>>3658381
>It's long, took me about 30h, and it's very linear. You don't have any control over your party members at all
That's shorter than i expected and after reading a bit more about some user experiences it seems that Indinera got burned out from the saga kind of like amaranth games did with aveyond after the mega saga that was Aveyond 3, iirc originally Laxius Soul was supposed to be the start of the next Laxius Trilogy, wich is a shame but understandable, though i woul like to go back to play all the 3 LF games again, i got a big bug JUST at the last chapter of LF 3 and couldn't finish it because i played in the hardest mode and while i had my carry over characters and items from LF 1 and 2, for some reason i couldn't form parties so i was stuck fighting the invasion sequences with just the leader character and called it quits, shortly after that i got a new PC and me being 12 i was too engrosed with the new shinny games i could now play to look back at LF 3 and my save got lost.

Any tips to play windows xp games in windows 7?
I still have LF 1 somehow but it won't run on my OS

>>3656976
I've played all of the other ones fucking years ago and the only one I can really say I thought was actually good was Laxius Power 3. But playing it absolutely requires playing the previous 2.
The force games had a number of good parts to them but overall were just bad.
I didn't know this new one existed but my first thought is that the new art is utterly soulless. I preferred the amateur stuff.
Also I could be remembering this wrong, but is reversing a major character death really the first thing that's happening here? I know it was a possible thing in-universe but still.