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- Title: Tales of Lerthule I
- Language: English
- Version: Final
- Size: 9.2 MB
- Year: 2000
- Author: Ayruliné
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Mini review
Lerthule is a heroic fantasy type RPG created by Ayruliné, and which has been finished in 2000.
Although interesting, the game has a few major flaws. First of all, the graphics of the game are composed of rips from various commercial games and other RPG Maker resources, which doesn't help it to have a unique look. Moreover, different graphic styles are mixes, which is a gross mistake, although commin in amateur creations. For example, Mathelos, one of the game heroes (he's the knight that can be seen in the 3rd screenshot on the right), has a much smaller head that other characters, due to the fact his sprites comes from Chrono Trigger. Another example: goblins appear as lizard men on the map, but not during battles. Ayruliné probably didn't find any goblin sprites for the map, or just didn't want to bother. By the way, the game has musics taken from various commercial video games, but that's a quite common thing in RPG Maker games.
Another big weak point: the game is rather short, its ending has been rushed and is really not satisfactory. At the time, RPG
Maker 2000 just got released, and Ayruliné decided to cut Lerthule 1 short so as to make a sequel for it with RPG Maker 2000... But he never did it.
One year later, in 2001, Lerthule was already nowhere to be found on the net anymore. In a crusade for RPG Maker 95 games
(and maybe to put them on my site), I ended up getting in contact with Ayruliné, who sent me his game. I thought it
wasn't too bad, but that's it. As well as the problems cited above, the game has a good load of bugs. I told Ayruliné
about it, but he told me he didn't want to work on it anymore... Thinking that was too bad, having some free time and thinking the game as is wasn't good enough to be featured on my site (haha), I proposed him to fix some of the bugs of the game, mainly functional bugs but also a couple of graphic problems. He accepted, but didn't want me to do too much, like when I told him about redrawing some of the game sprites. That was understandable, and if he didn't want to polish his game himself, it was probably not worth my time either. :p
The corrections I brought to the game are containted in the patch at the top of the page.
Well, even if what I said sounded mostly negative, it's still a rather nice game (clearly better than most shitty RPG Maker 95 games), so don't hesitate to check it out yourself and form your own opinion. :p
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~ Stifu
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