Heroes of Spyria Reviews

Fun game! At least it's cheap, though: A few quips: 1. When you walk diagonally, your character will display in front of walls and other objects. How you miss something like that in development is beyond me, or don't care, and is weird. Also, you will notice this when some random objects/background will show up "in front of" your character, when they should be behind. Finally, when walking diagonally your character has a "rubber band" effect, or, you press the controls, and, then, after a pause, they finally move. 2. No ability to "hide" the useless mouse pointer that shows up on screen and is locked inside the game window. (Only option is to move your mouse to the left or right edge and "hide" it in the black space. 3. During the first random encounter battles in outside world, enemies hit for 1/6+ of your health, and some of the first enemies will poison you. Poison stays after battle. So... you're stuck (for at least the first 5 character levels), going into 1 battle, rushing back to main village, and healing in "Old Man's" house for a free rest (before you die after a few ticks to 10% poison HP hits every few steps). (At first, it's a waste to use "Cure" to heal poison, as, right after you get poisoned and heal, the enemies can use it again.) 4. The items you can purchase in the game have weird gold values versus benefit. For example, 2 items (which have the same cost), one will give you a total of +20 stats all around, while another will only give you +10 stats all around... haven't seen that in an RPG before. This game gets about 3/5.

Extremely good game. Story: It starts of with the protagonist on a job that leads to their deaths, but they'd eventually meet two others. And before they knew it, they were getting wrapped up in a millenia old war. This is a long game. It takes the time to expand on all main characters through side quests and the main quest. Madyln who was once part of the order, that have a hand in the current events. She grew up without a family, and is genunily a good person. Hiro, after losing his father, much of his time is seeking revenge. Though, as he grew he learned from Madyln and the rest. Winter, a person who ran away from an abusive home. Though, because of Madyln, she ends up reconciling with her mother who truly did love her. Davos, the hero. He lost his wife, and held a deep hatred for humanity. Despite this, he chose to seclude himself. He made many decision, did much wrong, but he as well ends up moving forward. Each character ties into one another very well, and their dynamic is excellent. It is a story with much tragedy, but also much joy. System: It uses the RPGmaker defaults for the system. However, it was pretty well thought out how to use it. If anything, the game needed a bit more balance. Near the end of the game though, the protagonist gets quite an upgrade. Art Style: Some are definitely unique, and it is amazing. Music: Amazing. Side Quests: Quite a bit and totally worth doing. Other System: There is fishing late game. Problem Area: High encounter rates. They give you an option to use an Assist Mode to get an item to avoid encounters at the cost of trophies. I just edited the file. Upload save file to the save editor. --> Click the middle option at the bottom to switch tabs. --> Click armor. --> Right before the @c. Type exactly "136":1.0, Yes, the comma as well. This will put the avoid encounter accessory in your inventory. Overall: Extremely good game, and I'd highly recommend playing it. RPGmaker games being this good is rare.

The game has some AI stink about it, but if you can look past it, there is some great creativity, humor, and gameplay to make up for it.