It's said that there are more terrible RPGMaker games than stars in the visible universe, but Lisa the Painful is proof that infinite G*mers making infinite RPGMaker games will eventually make one of the greatest games of all time.
It's funny as hell, decently hard, and the gameplay and story integrate seamlessly in a way that most turn-based RPGs completely fail to do. It's got a dark and memorable story about addiction, violence, and mental illness. It's even got Terry Hintz (CW: Terry is extremely handsome)!
On the topic of obscurity, RPGmaker games that get a lot of attention like LISA are in that weird place for me like... are they really obscure or not? I say this as the game gets nothing but praise from a lot of people, and is one of those games that people think of when you bring up "good RPGmaker games." I do know of other RPGmaker games that are a lot more obscure, as people rarely talk about them, if ever.
It's said that there are more terrible RPGMaker games than stars in the visible universe, but Lisa the Painful is proof that infinite G*mers making infinite RPGMaker games will eventually make one of the greatest games of all time.
It's funny as hell, decently hard, and the gameplay and story integrate seamlessly in a way that most turn-based RPGs completely fail to do. It's got a dark and memorable story about addiction, violence, and mental illness. It's even got Terry Hintz (CW: Terry is extremely handsome)!
Hylics is also a fantastic RPGMaker game, absolutely worth playing for the creative art style
On the topic of obscurity, RPGmaker games that get a lot of attention like LISA are in that weird place for me like... are they really obscure or not? I say this as the game gets nothing but praise from a lot of people, and is one of those games that people think of when you bring up "good RPGmaker games." I do know of other RPGmaker games that are a lot more obscure, as people rarely talk about them, if ever.
I've never heard anything but praise for it either, but everyone in my friend group had never heard about it when I introduced it to them so /shrug