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Off-Topic => Archive => Old Game Discussion => Topic started by: Azrael23 on November 16, 2004, 04:16:05 AM

Title: Final Fantasy: Time and Again
Post by: Azrael23 on November 16, 2004, 04:16:05 AM
Set in Ivalice during the time of Final Fantasy 4, the game follows the story of Azrael, a dragoon of Baron, Lucien, a half-demon orphan from Mysidia, and Phae-Rel, an unbalanced psionic wanderer.
The game explores the religous and political aspects impacting the world that was only hinted at in Final Fantasy 4, with the backdrop of Azrael slowing realizing her powers as a time mage. The story was played as a Dungeons and Dragons campaign for over a year before we decided to make a game out of it, so the sotry is fleshed and the characters are well defined.
The synopsis of the story would take literally hours to tell, and will definitely over 30 hours playtime, with sidequests and minigames, in addition to boasting "The War of the Chosen", a climax to one episode of the story that will ambitously contain 32 characters.
In terms of technical detail, the game has the Dragoon class "Jump" command, fully working in the DBS, along with "Steal" and "Mug" commands, done without using the one round Stun trick, and allowing for both common and rare steals, a brand new CMS for Alchemists, a new type of shop very similar to the "Synth Shop" of Final Fantasy 9.
Most of the character sets were hand designed in the FF6 style and adapted to the maps. The chipset is the same, but has been upgraded to allow for new areas in addition to ALL of the original locations from the Japanese hardtype version, the original cd quality soundtrack with minor replacements from the "Celtic Moon" cd and other FF themes.
And as far as the game itself, progress at this point is over 30 %. Most maps are done, main battle character sets are complete, the systems are 90% complete, and all skills/animations have been laid out. We've been working on this a year now, so hopefully we'll be wrapping it up in the next couple of months, eventing is all that seems left. The game already has about 6-7 hours playable, with opening sidequests, etc. We also have a website with  screenshots, and information.
http://ff.kgne.net/
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Post by: WarxePB on November 16, 2004, 04:17:54 AM
Eh, it may be an FF game, but it's surprisingly good. I would definately recommend this.
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Post by: Ace of Spades on November 16, 2004, 07:55:23 PM
Wow. This might be a fan game, but like Warxe said, it's good.  I'm not going to say anything to spoil it, so just play the game. For me it took like 25 minutes to download, but it was worth the wait. Great game so far!  :D
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Post by: GhostClown on November 16, 2004, 08:18:49 PM
Eh, Good luck.
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Post by: Azrael23 on November 17, 2004, 02:09:33 AM
Thanks, I hope you guys enjoy the demo ~_^ Hopefully we will be having a new one coming out soon, with tons of stuff added.
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Post by: DragonBlaze on November 17, 2004, 02:43:38 AM
well after nearly 2 hours of downloading the smallest version of your game, I finally have it. I have to wait a little to play it though, I'll let you know tomarrow what I thought of it :D
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Post by: Relentless Soulscar on November 17, 2004, 06:33:09 AM
0.o you guys must have bad internet or sumthing, it took four minutes to download the high end...
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Post by: Azrael23 on November 17, 2004, 05:18:53 PM
Just to let everyone know, i implimented the new layout, and updated the site, let me know what you think... http://ff.kgne.net
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Post by: DragonBlaze on November 18, 2004, 12:38:34 AM
Well I thought it was a good game, or at least of what I played of it. The only thing is that the graphics were pretty bad... I know you wanted to use the same gfx as in FF4, and I guess its not so bad since it takes place the same time as the FF4 game, but in my opinion the 8x8 tiles are  :x. But hey, other than that, I thought it was really good, its a fan game, but meh, I usually don't care if its a fan game or not as long as its a good game :)