The Legion of Maelstrom

full 100% playthrough here: https://youtu.be/S9hkUX1LFbE I absolutely loved this game once I started I had a hard time putting it down until I reached 100%. This game has a very unique and fantastic take on leveling classes and fights. The music is a blast and the pixel sprites look sick. Definitely cannot recommend this enough.

A nice way to start off the New Year of Video games. The game play is challenging, the world is really cute with this Star Tropics vibe to it. The music stays in your head long after you stopped playing it.. in a good way... very very catchy. Not much to the story but it is not really what you are playing this game for. The game has no overworld battles which is interesting and I was glad for it. The boss battles can be long but they were long for me because I didnt realize the level cap was 20 so I was grind leveling the bosses as they appeared and I didnt need to do that because there are more bosses than the level cap. I will say though the citizen is weaker for quite awhile and benefits from the levels of the other classes considerably. I do not think there is a wrong way to play it though. Money is tight till you get a bit further so you have to mind your cash. I usually only spent money on stones to fight the bosses again. The further you go though the items can sell for a bit and then money will not be a problem. One of the nice things they added for people is late in the game there is a dragon like creature that can reset all the bosses for you. Everytime you fight a b…

Great so far! The story is interesting and the music is bangin'. Can't wait to finish it :)

Some really interesting ideas about how to strip a classic 8-bit RPG down to only the essential elements and get rid of the parts that are just filler. Enjoyed it for sure. Thumbs up.

This is such a creative take on the genre and I'm glad I played it. Highly recommend to any rpg fans!

The premise of this game is that instead of being about a party of 3-5 characters who journey the world together and who have individual strengths that complement each other, this is about 1 (silent, nameable) character who can act as each of 5 classes by changing outfits outside of combat. There are Fighter, Priest, Wizard, Ninja and the comparatively lame Civilian. Each time you level up as a specific class, it upgrades a certain stat across the board. The contrast between these approaches is a topic of discussion in the story: there's a party of 4 characters that seem to be the definitive Adventurers Of The Realm that go on adventures parallel to your character. Shortly after meeting them, the Elder of the starter town gives them an admonishment for being too dependent on each other with a spiel that, e.g. if everyone could heal themselves to some degree then there would be a lighter load on the Priest. I'm not entirely sure I agree that self-reliance is inherently better than relying on others but it's an uncommon theme to base a game around and not a bad one. It’s good when a game works with it’s core mechanic as a story element, it helps the story and gameplay feel like both …