I picked this up because I was intrigued to see an RPG Maker game being put up for sale, and having worked with the software before, I was curious what a more serious game development attempt would look like since most of my attempts have been hobby only and never panned out. That said, sadly, I don't really feel this game is worth the money.

The map designs are done fairly well, but the tilesets are all stock from RPG maker and it gives it an overly familiar look since I've seen them all many times before in other amatuer games. It looks like the only original items are the character sprites. There is a good use of scripts though from around the web, I can see a few from Yanfly and others that the game maker must be using. For those that aren't familiar with RPG maker, there's modded functionality in this game, things like mouse support aren't part of the basic RPG maker engine, which is nice to see.

The biggest drawback to this game is unfortunately the storyline and the dialogue. Story and dialogue should be the meat and potatoes of an RPG. The opening scene has a CEO just proclaiming "I want to go on adventure!" and then gathering a few friends amongst unexplained happenings, and then transitioning with "They adventure for days until Catz suddenly falls asleep" segwaying into a dream sequence that also doesn't explain anything. Characters are introduced with groan worthy lines like "Ugh, I can't stand you my non-vampire twin sister," and then follow up with lamenting that her sister hates her, going to check on her mecha blueprint, and activating a dreamworld. None of these are explained as to why someone's a vampire, what they're doing with a mecha, or what the dreamworld is. The lack of explaination extends to zero character developement and the whole game feels very much like you're playing someone's poorly written fan fiction. I don't know if there's a character primer I missed somewhere, I didn't see anything on the store page linking to one.

I feel like this game is still a hobby project and not quite worthy of being on steam for sale. I applaud the creator for sticking with a project to create this much material, but the writing is so poor that it pretty much ruins the game.

Summarizing this game is easy and can be done using a single word:

Inharmonious

On one part you have a solid HUD with proper elements like custom full sized character and ennemies portrait and a menu that could make other rpg blush... and on the other part you have the basic rpg makers elements for most of the game like template and tilesets... with flashing animated arrows that tells you when you can go inside another room.

The music is great... but is hard to associate with the moment or location. It feels like the music has just been added to please the ear and prevent silence more so than to add to the gaming experience.

The battle system is well done and well balanced with multiple difficulty levels... but the shops are vending machines that are scatered everywhere and all the chests have the same items in them.

The story is really where I lost it... the whole story revolves around vampire cat people with a need to go adventuring in a futuristic setting and you walk in the woods for some obscure reason.

Better luck next time/10

There's absolutly no way someone could salvage this game and make something worth it out of what was presented. I bet the developers of this game got trolled by one member of the developement crew... can't really explain it otherwise.

This isn't worth the price. I'm glad I got it for free.

Right from the start, you can tell the game is going to be horrible. The first characters introduced have such stunning and original names such as Catz (for the catgirl) and Kitsune (for the foxgirl). At the beginning, at least, the only story you get is essentially "I'm going to go on an adventure for no reason!", followed by this comment from the narrator: "They adventured for days until Catz suddenly falls asleep." Which, of course, leads into a dream sequence. The game seems to try to hard to be humourous and to mock common tropes in games, but it just fails so miserably that playing it has made me die a little inside.

The spritework is okay, but it's mostly because the creator mainly used sprites that came with rpgmaker. The character portraits are pretty nicely drawn, though the direction of some of the character designs is pretty poor (apparently a good portion of the cast appears to have a fetish for collars, for example.)

The battle system is pretty typical of rpgmaker fare, though it has a (surprisingly) decent design to the menus.

I would recommend not buying this game, unless you're buying it to give to someone you hate.. If someone buys you this game, reassess your relationship with them.

Pros:
Music is alright.
Character artwork is pretty good, though character design is hit and miss.
Battle menu looks pretty good.

Cons:
Terrible story right from the start.
Walking is often slow.
Unoriginal characters.
Makes me reconsider living on this planet.
Tries too hard to be humourous, ends up just being agonizing to read.

Ok.. how do a grade and review a RPG that is fatally flawed but fun to play....

HMMM.....

The developer is quite active in the forum and it's a she as far as i can tell.

The game's fatal flaw is.. it's got a decent backstory but there are no explaination at all though the first part of the game. And you need the delux edition manga to help explain the background.

Without all the background. You will be very confused when you play this game.

The graphics team did a really good job and all the character design beats just about all the other RPG maker games.
The music is quite pleasing at first but somehow it doesn't quite fit the situation you are in. For nighmare it should have nighmare music.. for a happy sunny forest it shouln't sounds creepy.

The combat system is quite fun. TP regenerate on hits, MP/HP regen when you focus and use potion.

There are a lot spelling error and grammar error left in the game that needs to be fixed. I am surprise to find a game on sell that the developer make more spelling error then i do.


I am really sad that I don't know how this game can be savaged? It could been much much better.
(maybe adding a bunch of text before each character and situation is introduced to explain the back story a bit? We are playing this game without knowing what's going on...)

5.5/10 I will give this game a barely passing mark cause i do think it deserve a better rating for effect. But the Flaw is there.. IF it's fixed then i can change the rating higher.

I wanted to like this game, truly. But after completing it I have to mark it as a not recommended. Here is why. Hopefully the developer can use this information to fix the game in the future, or maybe for their next game.

I'm going to use the GIMLET system the RPGAddict uses on his website to rate this game. Here we go:

1: Game World: The game takes place in a world where there are vampires. That is about all I could gather via the game. There is some back story somewhere buired in a document, but in game you learn nothing. 1/10

2: Character Development: Characters level at about the same pace as a standard RPGMaker game. Nothing new here, for good or bad. 5/10

3: NPC Interaction: Minimal, and what little there is makes no sense when it happens. Also there are bugs where it will show people talking to the NPC that are not in the party (which shows up in flashback scenes if you go off the beaten path). 3/10

4: Encounters and Foes: Starts off ok, but the developer seems to LOVE the paralyze status aliment. Expect to get paralyzed early and often. Also, paralyze never wears off, so until you can afford cures, paralyze is a death sentance. There is one early enemy that if it gets lucky enough to paralyze the wrong person (which happnes 1/3 of the time) its a game over, as you will be unable to kill it before it uses an attack that ko's the entire party. Endgame enemies also spam paralyze, silence, confustion, etc. Come prepared to want to punch something on your desk when you get to that point in the game.

Bosses come down to luck, as a couple of them have attacks that can paralyze the entire party. If it hits all 3 of your members, its a game over, as it will *never* wear off. And don't get me started on stun and how that has no cure either, as even the item that supposedly cures ALL status aliments but KO doesn't cure stun.

In summary, expect major balance issues, and random battles that are tougher than bosses, and bosses that come down to luck on whether or not you beat them. 0/10

5. Magic and combat: The 'innovative' combat system was spam attack until everything is dead, though that does change when you get the overpowered skills. One will try to paralyze all enemies (which makes random battles a joke then). Another skill adds doom and paralyzes the enemy, and never misses (except on bosses). Cast that 3 times, battle over. 2/10

6. Equipment: Despite 5 accessory slots, I never found a single accessory in the game. Armor is a joke due to how little it blocks, as you gain DEF at such a slow rate that having the best armor give +50% DEF means nothing. Also, why is there nothing to boost the MAT of the spell casters? They don't care about the ATK stat. As it is, I was better off attacking with them as they did less damage with their spells by the end of the game. 1/10

7. Economy: Broken as can be. Early game you can't afford KO revival items, but if you get past that and to the second and third zones, you can easily afford the best weapons in the game (which, sadly, the best weapon costs the same as 8 KO revival items)! After that, battle is just spam attack until they are all dead. 1/10

8. Quests: A couple side quests are hinted at (monster arena, trials), but that's about it. The main quest is as random as a squirrel on energy drinks and has no logical flow to it. 1/10

9: Graphics, sound and interface. The one strong spot of this game. The graphics are nice, and the sound is nice too. The interface is a little odd, especially in crafting, as I often accidentally started to craft as I had no idea I had selected an item yet! Also, when you go to equp an item, the stat changes do not properly show, so expect a little guessing there. 7/10

10: Gameplay. Plays ok. If you can handle the old school Wizardry and D and D games you can find some fun in this. Myself, I kept going as I wanted to see if this went anywhere at all. And while some people rip the opening of the game, many old games of the 80's and 90's start off much worse than "I wanna go on an adventure!".

On another note, the dream sequences need to go. They add *nothing* to the game. If they were meant to add something, it needs to be explained somewhere in the game, as I saw zero point to them. 5/10

Total: 24/100. It has decent graphics, tries to introduce you to a new game world, but needs more direction and better balancing before I can recommend it. Add in more on *why* you are doing what you are doing. Better balance the enemies. You don't need to spam every status aliment under the sun to make a battle tough. You don't need 147500 HP to make a boss tough. Also, add a tutorial please. I went about 2 hours before I knew what focus did as it has no explanation.

The devs clearly have some talent in the art department, and the UI and combat system are surprisingly good for an RPGM game. Unfortunately, the positives end there. As good as the combat is, it quickly gets old for lack of variety in the frequent random battles (enemies are reused to the point of absurdity, with shellfish enemies from a beach area continuing to show up in a forest at one point). Worse, Saga of the Twins is a textbook example of how not to tell a story. It's chock full of awkward dialog, attempts at humor that fall flat, forced exposition and idiot balls, blatant lampshading, telling instead of showing, attacks on the fourth wall for no good reason, laughably uninspired names, and shallow characters - one of whom is apparently only there to fill out the battle party, and another of whom is defined by her habit of doing stupid things on a whim, which is the driving force behind what little plot there is.

So far not worth it... would have played longer if the game hadn't crashed. (might give it another go later)

So few words about it, the trailer video gave a really nice impression of the game, like there would be a deep story or characters with brilliant personalities. But immediately after starting the game I was stunned by the lack of, well any and all of what i consider a story. You're thrown into this world with very little knowledge of what's going on and zero backstory. I mean cmon, what i learned was basicly that the main heroine is a CEO or something and the first words i hear from her mouth is "i wanna go for an adventure!". There's no story arc (atleast not in the begining, what i consider pretty important) to immerse the player into the game, nor even clear directions, the first area is a big ass building and i had no idea where i was supposed to go.

Really i will try it again because i wasted my money on this, had there been a review telling me anything above i wouldn't have bought it.

Okay this is not going to be like all the other reviews I am not going to give this game a Negative. But I will tell you the pros and cons and you decide if its worth the money yourself.

Pros

- Original Graphics are good
- GUI and Layout is good not like a basic RPG Maker game.
- Audio is not that bad

Cons

- Price not worth the Full price
- Controls

Final Notes the game is not worth full price, but if you can get it in a bundle like I did or on sell for $2 or less its worth trying if you like these types of games.

Also do not expect what you see in the trailer this is a RPG Maker game and should be looked at what it is not the what the Flashy trailer shows.

I will add more to this review as I play more of the game.

Despite the negative reviews, I wanted to give this game a fair shot. Unfortunately they were mostly dead on. I made it about an hour before I was too annoyed to continue.

Pros:
- The interface is fairly solid.
- The music is enjoyable.
- The character art is well done.
- There seems to be interesting variety in combat powers.
- The “puzzles” have the potential to be interesting.
- The developer seems to be actively involved.

Cons:
- Poor map layouts, there are numerous paths which are blocked off making moving frustrating.
- Too many enemies around. It seems like you are in a fight every couple of steps.
- Combat is extremely repetitive, especially when you switch to the vampires.
- The script needs work. I feel it has potential, but it needs a professional editor / writer to help.
- The plot consists of “I’m bored, let’s kill stuff. Oh, and I’m having strange dreams...”

I’ll give it another try in a few months as the developer seems to care, but for now I can’t recommend it.

Just... no. "We are going on adventure, just cause" I kept until they reached the first forest/after first boss. Vampires with huge powers, fake eared shorthaired girls where only the lead has some form of personality, an unpleasant one, forced jokes, ...

The power in RPG maker is, in my opinion, the ability to tell a great story even if you're less 'code-savvy'. Ths game, however, doesn't do that and has clear bad writing. It failed to catch me in the first few minutes, and I don't have the patience to keep trying and going. I farmed the cards and I uninstalled.

Don't buy. If you got it from a bundle, farm cards and move on.