Thank you wilikeh.

The game looks really good graphically. But it doesn't look as if it would play that well.

Sanosuke can you make it so the ! and "enter" only appear when you're close to them?

I just think a game in that style would work better with per pixel movement. The battle system does not seem smooth at all, and suffers from the same choppy game play a lot of custom battle systems have. I feel the same way Nightblade does about navigation. I don't really know what you can do about it though. It's mostly just an issue with RM2k3 I think.

Sanosuke: If your battle system has as much latency when you play it as it does in those videos, I'm pretty sure nobody's going to like it. The other limitations like tile based movement aren't that big of a deal - people will put up with them if the design is good - but that huge delay between the animations and things happening is pretty much unforgivable in an action battle system.

You might be better off going with a more simple-to-execute battle system so that you can still deliver a good experience if you insist on using RM2k3. Most people would prefer an unoriginal but well-executed battle system to one that's crippled by lag.

Your avalon town looks pretty nice, but those big flashing talk/enter icons detract from the looks a lot, and so does the overlay. I'd advise eliminating both of them, or at least toning them down.

wilikeh, your battle system looks really cool. You should post more of whatever game that is. Okay, thanks.

Sanosuke, the sound effect you are using is too overbearing. It's not necessary to have it for talking to npc's and it's too much for the menu system. Find something that is easier on the ears.

@NightBlade: Everything in that video is a picture. I'm not sure how he limited cliff edges (I'd guess checking x/ys and preventing overlap where the cliffs are, thus the general simple shape of the terrains. It's incredibly good, but it's all done with show picture. I mean, the technical specifications baffle the mind, but it's certainly not unimaginable. I'm sure Vanit could do it!

it definitely looks like a lot of work for each individual map -- something a good system should probably avoid...

and its not without its downfalls, either. notice how there is no map scrolling? everything is limited to one full-screen map at a time. kind of gives me a claustrophobic type feeling

way to shit on something better than 99% of what anyone has ever done in rm2k3.

How so? Also Sano is this game called Fabled, because although not much of an improvement the name still sounds so much better then that zoon or zoom title you had for it.