Void Monsters: Spring City Tales

I am happy I finally got a copy of this game! It is far more complex than I previously believed it to be. And honestly, I thought it’d not be as well constructed being as it is a RPG maker title. But dang is it obvious that the creator put a lot of work into this little game. You don't simply walk around capturing monsters, but rather you thieve, loot, bounty hunt, fight and complete quests to collect runes which when combined enable to you obtain creature eggs. You craft, steal, aid citizens, and fight the evil megalomaniac that has formed a monopoly on the land via his bank. There is a great deal of monsters to collect, locks to be picked, a good story, lots of different crafting pursuits, and different areas to explore. A charming game that quickly eats hours away without you even noticing how much time has passed. I have encountered a couple lagging issues but it is nothing big enough to deter me from playing the game.

This game is amazing so far, ever since i got this game its the only one ive been playing. you can farm, craft (alot of stuff) and as you level those crafting skills you unlock more stuff, capture monsters (well more like summon monsters), exploration, day and night cycles, breeding and the list goes on. it does sometimes lag or freeze for a few seconds but that didnt stop me from enjoying the game, totally worth the money.

Void Monsters: Spring City Tales is a fun monster trainer/simulation game. Actually, it's not really what I expected when I bought the game, but I am far from disappointed. The game begins with you returning home after your parents were brutally murdered only to find your home town sinking into debt. You inherint your parents' estate...along with their 52,000 gold debt, which accrues interest daily. You must raise money to pay off your debt while also helping the villagers with various tasks. You really have to balance making money and adventuring. There are lots of things to do! You can grow crops and raise goats. You need the things you grow and harvest from the goats to craft various items to sell or use. You will also need items you can only get by fighting against wild Void Monsters using your own trained monsters. You can gather runes and summon a large variety of different Void Monsters to help you on your way. Overall, I am really enjoying the game. I have encountered a few bugs, but nothing that keeps the game from being playable. I have had the game freeze on me occasionally, and there seems to be a memory leak causing the game to slow to a crawl after playing for a couple hours...a simple restart of the game fixes the issue. Otherwise, the gameplay and controls work very well.

This is the sum of all fears. Someone let furries make a video game. This is a terrible retro JRPG with bad furry art. It's even worse than it sounds. This game gave me cancer and now I'm out of a gaming PC because I had to incinerate the one I was using just to make sure this game was properly eliminated. There's simply no language on earth expressive enough to describe how important it is that nobody should play this game ever.

I picked this up on sale for $1.70, because the plot seemed intriguing and the price was low enough that it seemed worth the risk. Unfortunately, I ended up with a game so frustrating to try to operate that I gave up after 25 minutes. For some reason, the game is very, very laggy on my Linux desktop, and the controls are clunky as all get-out. Minor things like trying to scroll through my quest log to remind myself what I was supposed to do were extraordinarily difficult. Speech bubbles always appeared with no text in them, and I'd have to click a second time to see any words. Trying to pick up items had the feel of trying to get a stuffed toy out of a coin-operated claw machine. Even aside from the clunkiness, I found the game itself rather confusing, too. Explanations did pop up as I had my character try to interact with things, but I must've completely missed something with the combat, because I could not manage to get through a single battle without my monster getting killed off. On the other hand, I'd managed to trigger so many explanation dialogs about crafting that it overwhelmed me. There seems to be a lot of stuff in this game that I didn't really get to, so I wouldn't say that it's totally without merit. Clearly a lot of work went into the game, However, the severe performance issues made me unwilling to get past that early-game "argh I don't know where to go or how to do anything" hurdle. It also concerns me that after eight updates in the first month after release, this game has seen no updates (or even communication) since April… this suggests that the developers have already walked away. Maybe they'll be back, I don't know, but as it is I cannot recommend this game, even for $1.70.

I played for 7 hours and this is a really detailed RPG maker game with lots of quests and lots of mechanics. The biggest and fatal flaw for me is that after playing for 7 hours I seem to be experiencing a game breaking bug. When I try and reload the next fight I am in freezes and I can not continue the game. Again this game took a lot of work to make and I respect that but if I can't play it that's a deal breaker. I would love the opinion of no time limits for quests less random encounters with monsters or at least make them escapable more often so that I could enjoy the story line and complete quests.. With some bug fixes and a more relaxing option this would be an amazing game but as it stands I can't recommend it.

If you like pixel art / JRPG style games, this one is pretty great considering everything. I wanted to review some RPG Maker games and this one is amazing. Just make sure to save your game often, and if something totally breaks, reload it. PROS: - Lots of 'Stardew Valley' -like mini quests - Farming, but not intense like a farming game, crops grow magically in an instant - Lots of crafting and its needed to upgrade / pay off bank loans, also its easy to do not super difficult - Interesting plot initially, and different areas to explore, world feels large and mysterious / dangerous for a pixel art game - Overall visuals are appealing for this pixel art aesthetic (I like pixel art games) - Combat is normally boring in classical JRPG, this one makes it challenging so it's not too plain of combat CONS: - Some bugs, some lack of polish, didn't see any critical failures - Lots of encounters when you go into active encounter areas, will see lots of combat - Combat scales where ever you go, it's a time saver for fighting things your level, but 'easy' areas become more difficult as you progress

Graphics freeze constantly on my machine. Game continues working but nothing changes on screen so it's unplayable. Got an hour and a bit on my initial playing of the game and no more then 10 minute stretches after that.