Tetsoidea Eternal Reviews

Veyr well polished game

Tetsoidea Eternal is the first sequel to Fateholders of Tetsoidea, and does not improve on the original. The names aren't quite as stupid and there's no utterly terrible acronyms, but it's still a distinctly amateur 1.5 hour RPG Maker game featuring several stupid names and packed with awful jokes that were probably not funny to anyone except the author and their close friends. Likewise, the mechanics are similar, a linear progression from one map to the next with frequent save points that restore all of your HP and MP, but the combat mechanics never reach "interesting" in this one - you have one person who has a whole-party regeneration buff, one person who puts a HP drain debuff on bosses, one person who is completely generic and never does anything interesting except in fights that go so long he builds up 90 TP, and a wizard who blows up random encounters once you get her. This didn't really leave much room for any different combat strategies in any situations, unlike in the original. Story-wise, it's still disjointed and aimless, except about some evil scientist or wizard who is doing evil wizard science with a crystal. You chase him and his assassins across the map, kill him, and then kill a big demon named Diaperius. The end. Not recommended, and more strongly than Fateholders of Tetsoidea, as I wouldn't recommend this one even if you already own it for some reason.

RPG Maker strikes again! Tetsoidea Eternal is one of hundreds of low effort retro-pixel RPG Maker asset/construction kit flips spamming the Steam catalog, made with the RPG Maker video game construction kit... in their own words, "Our easy to use tools are simple enough for a child." Like all RPG Maker "games", this is essentially a bunch of low quality/canned assets from RPG Maker coupled with a cringeworthy high school anime club fan fiction. As with all RPG Maker games, the poor quality engine displays badly in fullscreen and doesn't have full HD support or any graphics tweaking options, making this unacceptable for any dedicated modern PC gamer. The point can be made that the intention of RPG Maker is to make demos and small games to pass around friends, and shouldn't be used for "professional" game development. Like most RPG Maker shovelware and asset flips, the game features extremely low quality copy + pasted 2D retro pixel art, looks awful, and has even worse gameplay. RPG Maker is an absolutely terrible construction kit, and never results in games of any reasonable quality or value to gamers. This is a particularly bad sequel to a slightly less bad (but still almost completely bad) RPG Maker asset flip with the same Tetsoidea name... again, painfully generic, bad writing, bad mapmaking, bad encounter design... essentially RPG Maker enables people who aren't talented enough to make games to make them anyway, and this isn't really good for gamers. The game is very very short and can be finished in under 2 hours. Developers have at least some responsibility to provide enough content to make a game last more than 2 hours if they're serious about providing something of value to gamers. There's less content here than some free game demos. So, should you buy this RPG Maker asset flip? Tetsoidea Eternal is relatively cheap at $1 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend. Gamers who want a good retro JRPG experience would be better off playing the originals, like Final Fantasy, Star Ocean or Chrono Trigger. This is also competing with over 11,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product.