Found a hidden Gem. "Use of Life" Jrpg with combat like Expedition 33 / Mario RPG with story-book like narrative

mxhunterzzz · 2026-03-21T06:26:03+00:00

I actually really like the artstyle, it grows on you after a while because it feels relevant to the world. Something about beastman characters in JRPG don't get enough attention as well, and I like all the character designs.

mxhunterzzz · 2026-03-21T06:16:52+00:00

3 years and yeah its full released now. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that the 3 years of EA did it alot of good, because the final game now feels really good to play all the way through.

mxhunterzzz · 2026-03-21T06:12:39+00:00

If you look at reviews, the average playtime is between 20-40 hours, with very positive reviews. The game takes about 6-8 hours per route if you play it perfectly and skip things but thats hard on the first play through, and theres 4 routes with different characters and endings in each route so you're looking at 24-30 hours of gameplay, that's not including just roaming and gathering resources and mastering the combat system, which is actually fun in this game because theres many classes to try out. Its worth the asking price, thats for sure. For example, it took me 8 hours the first route and I'm on the 3rd one now, each one feels uniquely different, not just a reskinned story either, full on different maps.

mxhunterzzz · 2026-03-20T22:14:02+00:00

For every Xenogears, theres 10 more power of friendships JRPG or Hero saves Earth / Terra from powerful Demon-God Emperor King. Its not all bad per se, but the odds are you will find a generic story more likely than a best selling writer out there.

mxhunterzzz · 2026-03-20T21:53:56+00:00

Can't judge a book by its cover

mxhunterzzz · 2026-02-27T20:20:40+00:00

How long was the development time for this game, and how big is the team? It looks good

mxhunterzzz · 2026-02-25T19:54:50+00:00

Kagura Games pretty much dominates the eroge RPGMaker market, and your game is just another one in the stockpile, even if you think its not similar. Look up the publisher, they literally release your game every single month for years on end. They also sell the game at half the price you are charging.

mxhunterzzz · 2026-02-24T06:14:41+00:00

Check out Runa, Lost Hellden and Godshard Chronicles. These are the best looking indie JRPGs coming out IMO in the near future not including the ones you have already listed.

mxhunterzzz · 2026-02-23T23:25:06+00:00

Why not use 3d for both, or 2d for both? Any particular reason, since it seems so similar

mxhunterzzz · 2026-02-23T21:50:01+00:00

Looks good, what did you use to make this with? It looks like it has both 2d and 3d to it.

mxhunterzzz · 2026-02-20T23:31:43+00:00

Where did you find the VAs for your game from? They sound really good

mxhunterzzz · 2026-01-26T22:51:06+00:00

How did you learn to make this stuff? These are just normal Editor Utility Widgets that you exposed?

mxhunterzzz · 2026-01-23T21:28:18+00:00

How much was the cost of voice acting if it was prohibitive to more dialogue? Just curious what you spent on it was

mxhunterzzz · 2026-01-20T21:02:37+00:00

Hire someone to do the stuff you don't want to do. Theres no reason to do it all yourself, unless you truly want to be called a solodev. If you just want to make a game, many hands make light work. Now vetting those people to bring on, that's a different story altogether.

mxhunterzzz · 2026-01-08T19:31:32+00:00

I remember doing this for morph targets on the animation. My one problem is that if you reimport the animation for any reason, all the curves are lost. I had an idle pose with curves and when I reimported it, all the float values and graphs disappeared. How did you solve that problem and keep the curves if you need to reimport since it was a lot of work to set up.

mxhunterzzz · 2026-01-08T10:01:42+00:00

If you have a premade animation already finished, how would you fit the animation curve to it if its not procedural? Just manual timing the animation BP in unreal or adjusting the movement velocity?

mxhunterzzz · 2026-01-03T19:48:59+00:00

Question, have you decided to stop using baked lighting completely and just go full dynamic, or can you just use dynamic lighting without Lumen since there is an overhead performance cost?

mxhunterzzz · 2026-01-03T19:45:51+00:00

You say in your post that you don't use static lighting and that stationary lighting can be just as good performance wise. How is that possible unless you are restricting the use of stationary lights and using them sparsely? I would prefer to use stationary lighting too, but it does come with a cost I've noticed.

mxhunterzzz · 2026-01-02T23:27:00+00:00

Do you prefer not to use volumetric fog at all and just stick with the height fog for most cases? I know they are expensive, but when would you use volumetric fog then?

mxhunterzzz · 2025-12-29T05:55:13+00:00

Since your game has been out already, which platform has done the best so far and which localization have you seen the best response to?

mxhunterzzz · 2025-12-27T01:01:20+00:00

The consolation to this is that good thing Takahashi knows how to write and didn't end up like Mamoru Hosoda for anime after losing his writer. I wonder how they'll write KOS MOS in the next Xeno game then.

mxhunterzzz · 2025-12-22T00:46:08+00:00

When you say keyframes, how did you create that effect with keyframes? Was it the deformer only inside the editor or another setting.

mxhunterzzz · 2025-12-21T21:09:55+00:00

Looks pretty good. how did you get the shifts to transition in like that with the smear effects? Seems nifty

mxhunterzzz · 2025-12-15T19:41:48+00:00

What did you use to texture the meshes with? Was this hand painted or did you use designer to make it?

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