A Ghostly Rose

fun

A fun rpg maker style game with a cool battle system

The story is very touching. I'm very happy that I played this. I am not going to say any more, because I do not want to spoil the experience...and yes, it is an experience. Thank you for making this.

A solid little RPG with an interesting combat system that really started to strain against itself by the end of the game. I appreciated that the core conceit wasn't a twist, but presented blatantly and early.

(Full review here: https://rpgmaker.net/games/12388/reviews/10227/) A Ghostly Rose is a remake/reimagination of the freeware Three Ghostly Roses - which had at one point been voted the best RPGMaker game of all time. ( https://rpgmaker.net/forums/topics/24599/ ) . For anyone who hasn't played that, though, this game is more likely to come across as a variation on LISA: The Painful (a bulky man in his later middle age carving a bloody path with martial arts moves for the sake of his daughter), remixed so that you always fight alone - but unlike, say, LISA: The Joyful, the combat system had been adapted for that via a limb-targeting mechanic. This might sound outwardly reminiscent of Fear & Hunger, but the Break system here, where injuries are temporary but might result in a near-total collapse of the will/ability to fight, is rather different from enemies permanently losing limbs but being otherwise unaffected as in that Finnish game - and almost nothing else is alike in terms of gameplay. Instead, A Ghostly Rose is remarkable for reapplying obvious Dark Souls elements in ways that arguably make it easier than a conventional JRPG. That is, you'll never need to grind to get past a…

This one is hard to review. I definitely liked it a lot, I think it's clunky but does everything it sets out to do successfully, and I found myself playing through it with enthusiasm. In principle, story wise, it feels like Wooden Ocean mixed with Lisa: the Painful rpg. The dialogue however feels like it goes back and forth between either poorly translated Elvish poetry or Die Hard fanfiction. I don't know how to explain it better than that honestly, but it does do a good job at making you ask questions and at stimulating your emotions, even if sometimes those questions are 'what the heck' and the emotions are confusion and laughter. And I got to wonder, am I laughing at the game, or is the game laughing at me? Am I the joker's joke, or the joke's joker? Can the Joke ever be the Joker? Uh anyways I was invested through and through even if some moments took me out of it. The mechanics are oddly satisfying, simple rpg stuff but with a nice sorta persona-esk type matchup/knockdown system. I liked it a lot. I don't know who I'd recommend this to honestly, but I guess if you liked Wooden Ocean and wanted more? Or if you just really like odd rpgs with a focus on interpersonal rela…