Please do not buy this game unless you enjoy bad writing, rampant misogyny, poor gameplay, and sooo much more

[Effé Kay]

This is a game that is part of a series that includes, among other things, sexualization of minors, constant use of rape as a plot device, women who exist solely to be "submissive" to the male lead, awkward and creepy writing riddled with typos, and generally no plot to speak of outside of the lead developer's sexual fantasies that he incorporates into the game.

I have suffered through many of his titles. Please don't put yourself through the same kind of soul sucking torture that I put myself through.

[curly_nuts]

Maybe i'm missing something, but what exactly is WRONG with the game?

[Krelian]

You will need to elaborate a little deeper into these topics if you want your point to be taken seriously.
I'll be honest: I've seen a few similar complaints in some other RPG Maker communities out there, but no screenshots or plot details to back these claims.

[Egro]

some people enjoys that kind of thing. It's some man fantasy but it can be other man fantasy, that what game is..at least back in the day. You hate it, sure. But that does not mean other will hate it. State your opinion is fine but ask other to not buy is arrogant, you are not their mom nor their king.

[Effé Kay]

I went into a lot of detail on the laxius force greenlight page before it was removed explaining tons of the problems with his games. the main problems with his series are that there is a general lack of good writing (both in terms of grammar/spelling as well as in terms of what he is actually writing), the artwork often ranges from generic to hilariously bad to just default stuff from rpgmaker (which just kinda makes it seem lazy), the gameplay is often extremely unintuitive with numerous quests with strange event triggers that you have no clue exist unless you read through a guide (which is often sold by the developer so you would need to fork out extra to be able to find all of the side content without which you would be super underpowered and have a rougher time completing the game) as well as a battle system that includes so many unexplained buffs, debuffs, skills, elemental affinities and weaknesses that none of them really seem to follow any kind of logic. on top of that the games are generally extremely tedious to play through and none of what you're doing ever really makes any sense and often times you're stuck trying to figure out what it was that the developer was expecting you to do because it just is not obvious at all. these are just the baseline problems. I haven't even gotten into the pedophilia or zoophilia or bdsm ♥♥♥♥ he has spread throughout this "wonderful" series

[CaptainCoxwaggle]

And here I was thinking of skipping over this one. Thanks for the recommendation.

[lonewolfknightpsn]

thanks saved me some $$$
honestly while i have np with RPG Maker games (Own it myself and maybe one day i'd like to release a project) i do have a slight bit of a problem with Price. I mean even on sale its 10 bucks and even the thumbnail pics show art that is downright grade schoolerish. I'm not trying to hate on it but c'mon even i would understand that its not worth that much. Good Luck to the Developer and all but a lil more Polish before trying to charge 10+ bucks might be a thought.

[Krelian]

@RIP
That's the problem. Among all that wall of text you just wrote, there is actually nothing that shows me the stuff you're warning people about the game. It's just too vague.
I'm really curious, so please give some actual examples instead of just claiming they are "bad", "tedious" or "confusing". Seeking stuff in guides and discovering status effects / weaknesses is something I do for almost every RPG out there.

[Effé Kay]

okay lemme start off a little bit small here. vinland_krauser, lets say you get into a fight against a "fire" monster and you have some "water" skills. you would think to use the water skills on the fire monster, yes? it's intuitive, right? okay. now imagine you get into a battle and it is against a monster whose element is, near as you can tell, "legendary," and the skills you have access to have elements such as "legendary," "laxius," "heroic," "metal," "gun," "undead," and "girl." now also imagine that there's no way to figure out what any of that ♥♥♥♥ actually means.

[Xoelaras likes Jagged Crowns]

It was bad enough when my first impression of it was that it was merely an RPG Maker XP game costing 12 quid?! (suuuure Steam, whatever you say, dear).

But it's good to know it offers a "quality" experience of a story to go along with it:

[Krelian]

Holy hell, that seems pretty outlandish!
Got any more examples? This got me even more curious.

[AN BIFFED ELF!!!!]

There's an eregious one right in the store page:

http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/278530/ss_9afd80c9fe62fd770e969a58c44dc2a70565b4b9.1920x1080.jpg

[Howell@theMoon]

I find it hilarious that you are complaining of sexualization and misogyny when you have that avatar. I'm not fighting against you, supporting the game, or berating you or anything.
If anything it actually adds to the weight of your argument.
I just found it funny enough to comment about.

[Drake Dangereux]

personally if the game does put women in a "damsel in distress" (and judging from the screenshot from the actual store page it does) makes me 99% less likely to pick up the game than i already was,i mean come on how low do you need to go as to sexualize and just completely morally twist an entire GENDER just because a small macho minority on the male side enjoys that weird stuff,i'm a guy myself and i absolutely despise it when game developers make art and scenarios which blatently are soley there to please the eyes of that simple thinking minority of hormonal manchildren

[Howell@theMoon]

Postat inițial de AN UPSET:

There's an eregious one right in the store page:

http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/278530/ss_9afd80c9fe62fd770e969a58c44dc2a70565b4b9.1920x1080.jpg

Oh my god, even as basic sentence structure, let alone dialog, that is atrocious. I think the linguistic part of my brain is bleeding.

[Effé Kay]

I have some pictures from the sequel to this game that show off the amazing dialogue and writing you can expect from him. This is from Laxius Power 1 which is a freeware game that would take place after this game I believe chronologically. http://imgur.com/a/RtYGi#pEXTR6b the censor bars were modded in by me also read it from bottom to top sorry it uploaded in the wrong order :V anyway. the original art included nips even when they were wearing clothes and, in the case of sarah, even on a 16 year-old girl that is often sexualized and paraded around as being "extremely submissive."


getting back to gameplay, another big issue is how the quests work. I'm most familiar with the first laxius force game so I'll just go over 3 quests I remember as being particularly bad. 1 of the quests was a simple "investigate the mysterious monster that a village mentioned" type quest. so I figure okay I'll just go investigate. however, my characters kept getting scared and refusing to cross a bridge to where the monster was located. the solution to this "puzzle" is to cross the bridge when the screen lights up due to lightning, thus allowing your characters to state that they see a frog across the bridge and that that must be the source of the noise. you then pick up the frog and can keep it with you as an item to use in battle. quest complete. this quest is required if you want to feasibly complete the next quest.

the next quest I remember is the reeker bulb, an item that poisons your whole party just by having it in your inventory. you're intended to carry it for about half the game once you find it. the only way to remove the poison effect is to wear an item that makes you immune to poison or to use a party member that is immune to poison. there are, at that point in the game, only 2 items available that make you immune to poison. there is an equipment item for the elf girl that only she can use (and she's super annoying so I hope you like having her in your party) and there is a ring or something that you can get by going back to the cave where you found the frog, fighting a super super hard (for that point in the game, and because you occasionally reach zones you can't return to you're going to have to grind up levels to fight this monster) mimic chest, and then from there you examine a cliffside nearby so that you jump across it. once across, you enter a cave and find a dying person. she finishes dying and you leave. at this point you only have one shot at getting the special anti-poison ring. when your character jumps back over the cliff, you have to hit the direction arrow in the opposite direction you jumped at just the right moment in order to make him stumble and fall into the pit. there is no indication that you can do this. at the bottom of the pit you solve a puzzle to escape and along the way pick up the anti-poison ring that can go on any party member. the other party members I used at this time were a sex slave who was immune to poison because she is also a zombie and I can't remember who got the 4th slot, probably cocka-cocka who is a hidden character you get by choosing a specific item when given a reward gift from a person and then finding an egg in a place you don't think you can check and hatching him and ugh it's just really confusing. anyway you carry the reeker bulb through most of the game for a quest and you don't even get the quest to get the reeker bulb until after you're past the point where you can't actually return to where the bulb was so you have to have foresight or access to the guide.

the third quest that pissed me off was one where a character is just like "hey uhm there's a meteor coming so uhhh gimme your character sarah for a bit" and then she just stays there until you've walked an absurd amount of steps until she finishes moving the meteor. it's just really tedious, boring, and you aren't told that it requires you to walk around for a certain number of steps so an unfamiliar player would just be left checking back constantly hoping that the character would be done since you can't progress in the game without her.