大海与你 (2024)

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RPG Maker strikes again! "大海与你" is one of hundreds of low effort retro-pixel RPG Maker asset/construction kit flips spamming the Steam catalog, made with the RPG Maker video game construction kit... in their own words, "Our easy to use tools are simple enough for a child." Like all RPG Maker "games", this is essentially a bunch of low quality/canned assets from RPG Maker coupled with a cringeworthy high school anime club fan fiction. Notably, the "developer" couldn't work out how to use RPG Maker to make a JRPG (the only thing it can do, and it's terrible at it). Instead, we have a simple narrative heavy "adventure" game... of interest is the use of RPG Makers garbage side view adventure game format, so while this is a change of pace for garbage RPG Maker asset flips, the side view engine is of equal quality to the more traditional top down JRPG engine, that is to say, it's complete and utter trash. The content here is your usual high school anime club dropout fan-fiction writing, but in Chinese, and seems more self obsessed rather than the usual e-book fan-fiction about the author's imaginary girlfriend. It's still cringey. As with all RPG Maker games, the poor quality eng…