Just played your demo and I have to say that from a technical standpoint, this has got to be the most impressive thing ever done in RPG Maker 2003. My hat is off to you, good sir.

I'm not sure if you're trying to imply that people who make original games work harder than what I have. If so, that couldn't be further from the truth. The designs may not be original, but I've made copious amounts of documentation in order to emulate the menu and battle system and other mechanics.

I personally don't think he is. (but I can't speak on his behalf, just my own) In this particular case, effort and work are two completely different things. I mean sure, people who do make original games do have to use effort that wouldn't be used when re-creating a game that already exists, but at the same time they are the only ones who can decide how much actual work is put into that game before they get to say it is finally complete.

People who work to re-create a game that already exists don't have the luxury of deciding how hard they need to work before it is finished. They either work hard enough for the game to be an accurate re-creation of the original, or the game simply never reaches the point where it becomes an accurate representation of the original.

It's not your own game, so you can't decide to work on it "only so much" and therefore "decide when it's done". For you, it either is going to be, or it simply isn't. (or it is, but it's only the first half of it, etc...) You pretty much must work hard enough to make it the game it is going to be in either case, but you are probably working much harder than most people who have the advantage of deciding (on their own) how much work they require from themselves in order to complete their original game, just by virtue of how much work it really takes to make the specific thing you set out to make. (I'm sure what MysteriousWanderer is implying is that if you really are willing to work this hard just to re-create this particular game, how great would such a game be if it was instead something original that required the exact same amount of work as this project?)

Your current work does look promising though, I'll have to try testing it out later.

She's dead man. You just need to let go.

Unless you have to push the truck by the S.S. Anne to revive Aeris absolutely do not implement that.

It's AeriTH -.-;

Make Don Corneo an optional character to recruit. His limit break can be a pelvic thrust.

Please do this.

I wasn't being serious.

But now I am.  Please do that.