Beyond Reality

RPG Maker strikes again! Beyond Reality 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. This is another RPG Maker asset flip/cash grab from Andorlea/Warfare/SimProse/Valkyria/EternalShadow Studios. It's important to note that this guy has rushed over OVER ONE HUNDRED of these RPG Maker asset flips onto Steam, now. This isn't sincere, genuine game development. This is a cash grab scheme. While it's refreshing to see they almost but not quite escaped the generic fantasy anime fanfic theme of almost all of their games... here, you're from the past, and you travel into the future! Then back into the past so you can go straight into a generic fantasy anime fanfic RPG Maker asset flip. So much for that. The shovelware never ends with these guys, and neither does the mediocrity. This has all the same hallmarks as all their other asset flips, regardless of which fake/shell accounts they use to try hide their identity, which means bad map design, bad encounter design, bugs, badly translated writing, spelling and grammatical errors... it's just another series in their 100+ and counting RPG Maker asset flip shovelware library. 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. You don't have to take my word about how bad the game is, we can measure the interest in a game by how much people bothered to play it. Beyond Reality has achievements, and they show us a very clear picture that the game absolutely failed to capture any interest from gamers. The most commonly and easily attained achievement is explosion, but only around 3 percent of players bothered to get that far before uninstalling the game. That's a tiny, tiny proportion of gamers who even bothered with this. Ouch. Reviewing SteamDB to check how popular this game was with players reveals a surprise... there's a very healthy spike in player counts for the game. But this isn't consistent with the achievement stats, that show only 3 percent of players bothered playing the game for any reasonable amount of time. How is it possible for this game to have so many concurrent players who weren't even playing the game? Trading cards. Players will use card idling software to collect the cards and sell them, but this won't trigger any achievements in-game. That tells us people only really bought this game for trading cards, and that's a damning indictment of the woeful quality. A closer look at the numbers shows the game just has a couple of players every week running up the game and idling it for cards, then deleting it. We must ask how it benefits gamers for there to be so many games like this, with no merit as a serious game, that only generate sales from people idling and selling the trading cards. Beyond Reality has the insane price of around $5 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product. Gamers who want a good retro JRPG experience would be better off playing the originals, like Final Fantasy, Star Ocean or Chrono Trigger.

trash

Post-reality is where it's at currently

This game is ... soulless. Technically bad, a little bit, it has very limited settings and took me lowering the sound effects volume as a suggestion and ignored it. Also, some simple dialogue errors like have "emphasize" where it was clearly supposed to be "empathize". Missing some basic RPG staples like a quest journal too For my personal tastes, the game had so much working against it. The plot felt poorly thought out, the characters were anime cliches, the dialogue seemed to press against the fourth wall "She just cast an S rank spell!", and there was almost no statistical difference between the party members. Two are literally no different past the portrait and name. And somehow past all that it managed to be really boring. It's not the worst thing I've ever played, but it isn't good. 3/10.

還行吧...中規中矩的老套 難度還可以 終於有點適合練功狂 但是還不夠給力

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