It would not be that different from if people started selling rom hacks as professional products. Additionally, Dragon Fantasy was made from scratch and not using an engine someone else created.Įven though the creator of RPG Maker does allow the defaults to be used in commercial products, I still cannot help but feel it isn’t even ethical to put something up for sale that is mostly made up of someone else’s work.
It should be worth noting that Dragon Fantasy was a parody, and thus can get away with a half-assed title for comedic effect. If you want to take this even further, another game also combined the titles of those two games that was called Dragon Fantasy. Even the title is just a combination of Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest. The reason for this is quite simple nothing about this game is original. I can also tell because the upbeat adventurous tune does not fit with a title screen with a dark and depressing color scheme.Įverything else may or may not have been default assets, by my money is going on the former. Hell I am pretty sure the title screen music is default since I briefly used RPG Maker enough to see the default title screen. Unfortunately, the music SOUNDS like it would be default RPG Maker material, and for all I know it could have been music from another version. Additionally, I have tried listening through the RPG Maker VX Ace soundtrack and have not noticed any of the defaults used. The only positive I can think of, beyond scrounging for basic features like “there are no major bugs” is that the music is decent. Despite being a finished product, Final Quest is one of, if not the worst, RPGs I have ever played, and it has very little redeeming quality. Unfortunately, amateur developers still make amateur mistakes, and ambition cannot offset a lack of knowledge and experience. As such, I find myself being one of the rare few who gives RPG Maker games a chance and decides to judge them on their own merits. As someone who has very briefly tried to create something with RPG Maker, I can definitely say that it is still difficult to fully comprehend so I can only imagine how difficult it would be to program an engine from scratch. The other one is a game made by an amateur developer who uses the engine as a tool to counteract their lack of experience. The obvious problem with this approach is that it has an obvious “quantity over quality” mindset and shows that there isn’t much thought put into new ideas. The first variation from an experienced and professional developer that uses RPG Maker to save time and put out a large number of well made products in a short period of time. The problem is that these games tend to be in the minority, and most RPG Maker titles tend to come in one of two variations. That is not to say that RPG Maker games are inherently bad, as there have been a number of great games made in the engine such as To the Moon, Yume Nikki, Mad Father, Cognitive Dissonance, Ao Oni, and Actual Sunlight. There is a distinguished look that RPG Maker has, and changing this visual style will often require alterations to the engine which will not happen since RPG Maker is often used as a crutch by amateur developers.
It is usually very easy to tell when games were made using this engine due to various reasons. There were even periods where games made to encourage violence towards gay and transgender people and games with real life gore footage made it onto the service, and the latter is STILL UP!Īnother example of these pervasive trends includes RPG Maker titles those being games developed in the RPG Maker game engine. Due to an absence of quality control aside from a fee, it allowed the service to become flooded with dozens of poorly made and amateurish titles ranging from buggy Minecraft clones, dull and substance-less walking simulators, horribly drawn and translated visual novels, and dozens of “ retro throwbacks” that look like Atari 2600 titles and bare more similarities to the Shovelware published by LJN than any of the classics. It has been well established that Steam Greenlight was a disaster.
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