The Crimson Rune: Prologue

[Firestalker5 0]

Bug reports are always welcome, feedback is appreciated!

 

 

There is some reviews for this game, but they are for the very old and outdated version. So this section will be for the new version reviews.

 

The God War

The War of the Gods:

One side of the war wanted to enslave the Human race for their own goals and enjoyment. The other side felt they needed to protect the Humans and use their knowledge to advance the Human race to new heights. The disagreement escalated to the point that war was eventually inevitable. Both side fought furiously for over 200 years. The many battles took both God and Human lives. The two oldest God's, Aastra and Minerva, were all the remained when the war finally came to an end after there were no more Gods left to fight. In a final and decisive battle Aastra and Minerva ended the fighting for good and at that moment the world was left without a single God.

Many wondered why the war was started at all. They all knew that if the God and Goddess of old were still around then the needless blood shed of the Gods War would never of happened. But as it were the God and Goddess of old had long ago disappeared.

Prologue Story

I don't want to give too much away, but the story starts with the final battle of a giant war, 500 years in the past. The game quickly moves to the present and to a young prince sleeping the day away in his room. His friend, Surge, wakes him up under orders of the King. The prince, having turned 15 that very day, was finally able to leave the castle walls. As tradition the prince/princess, for the first 15 years of his/her life, is not allowed outside the castle walls. They are to learn all the ways of running the Kingdom before being allowed to meet the subjects.

This is where the adventure begins, for this year is the year that a hermit cult, thusly called for never having ventured out of their underground sanctuary in nearly 500 years, has decided it was time to resurrect their God. A God that is as insane as he is evil. An evil the world has not seen for over 500 years. Phire and Surge interrupt the cult during their unsealing ritual and their whole world is changed.

 

Will the cult succeed?

What will Phire and Surge do to stop the cult?

 

Characters

Name: Phire Eternity

Age: 15

Background: The only offspring of the King of Eternity, he has come of age and is now allowed to leave the castle for the first time. Accompanied by his best friend of 15 years, Surge Ascent, his adventure promises to be an interesting one.

 

Name: Surge Ascent

Age: 16

Background: An orphan found by the king as a young child, he has been raised by the Royal family for the last 15 years. He has been trained to be the next Captain of the Guard when he comes of age and has been the Prince's best friend since the Prince's birth.

 

Intro Battle

The World Map

Nargethia Village

Mountain Peak

The Danger above the characters head tells you that a battle is coming in the next step. You can choose to skip the battle (by pressing enter) or continue on with the fight.

A Typical Battle

The HP/SP Bars at the top of the screen can be shut off in the Options screen.

 

Empty at the moment. Hopefully it will remain that way.

 

 

Features

Features:

1. Multihit Skills
   
2. Indepth Story
   
3. Overdrives
   
4. Very Challenging Gameplay
   
5. Over two hours of play time
   
6. Automatic Font Installs
   

 

The Crimson Rune: Prologue

A lot later than I was hoping to get it out, but it should be completely bug free and ready for download.

 

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Some fun stuff to remember when playing:

• If you hit SHIFT while on the map you will be asked if you want to go to the OPTIONS Screen or the QUEST screen.
  
• If you wait long enough at the TITLE SCREEN then you will sent to a short credit event. You can skip back to the Title Screen at anoy time by hitting ENTER or ESC.
  
• I had to get rid of the FMV portion of the summons, but they will return when I get the Video Script to work on everyone's computer.
  
• I do have plans to write up a Strategy Guide eventually, but until I get the time to do that you can ask me anything and I'll try my best top help you(without giving you the answers).
  

 

If you get an error for the Auto Font Installer script then all you have to do is manually install the fonts yourself (check below for how):

• Go into the font folder and copy the font there.
  
• Go to your C drive and then to Windows. There is a folder there called Fonts.
  
• Open that folder and paste the Font from the Font folder there. The font should install itself.
  
• Go back to the game folder and start the game. Problem should be fixed.
  

 

For some reason the Saves Folder didn't pack with the pack, this would cause the game to crash when trying to save. All you have to do is make a new folder next to Audio and Fonts and call it "Saves" (without the quotes and it has to be capitalized). That'll fix the problem.

 

I've worked really hard on this and hopefully I haven't missed anything important.

 

 

The section will have updates as they come.

 

Credits

Credits:

 

Scripts:

SephirothSpawn

ccoa

KGC

Sandgolem

Wachunga

Near Fantastica

Trickster

Blizzard

Illustrationism/Raziel

DerVVulfman

Fantasist

Hawk-McKain/RPG Advocate

Rataime

Moghunter

Dargor

cybersam

BlueScope

Soundspawn

Raziel

MiDas Mike/Paul Baker

Myself(Firestalker)

 

 

Graphics:

Tana

zanyzora

ccoa

Enterbrain

Naramura

TheInquisitor

Mascarpone

mac

joy

Rye

Rep

Myself (Firestalker)

 

 

Music/Sound:

Enterbrain

Kinderella

David Schooley

J-Street

Lapensee

Lene

Klace

Rieves

Dan

 

Titlescreen Graphic: Rep (Menu, Options and Quest Screen Graphics by extention)

 

Enjoy!

[Guest Hellfire Dragon]

Well story is kinda cliche. For a start, big evil guy resurrected after hundreads of years, your using the defaullt charsets, aluxes :P, although alot of people just leave them like that and change them later but I don't know whether or not your changing them. Well, how exactly do the 2 people end up interupting the ritual? You said the cult/sanctuary things was underground and hadn't been seen for 500 years, how do your characters end up in that place?

 

That's all I have to say right now, except your screenshots are alright, I like 'danger' thing above the player aswell.

[Firestalker5 0]

Well story is kinda cliche. For a start, big evil guy resurrected after hundreads of years, your using the defaullt charsets, aluxes :P, although alot of people just leave them like that and change them later but I don't know whether or not your changing them. Well, how exactly do the 2 people end up interupting the ritual? You said the cult/sanctuary things was underground and hadn't been seen for 500 years, how do your characters end up in that place?

 

That's all I have to say right now, except your screenshots are alright, I like 'danger' thing above the player aswell.

 

OK..... Good Questions:

 

1. Well story is kinda cliche. For a start, big evil guy resurrected after hundreads of years -

Ok... I'll give that the first part is a little cliche, but there a little bit of twist [more twists on the story as the game progresses], in that the evil bad guy is a God that wasn't really dead just sealed away. Only the Royal family of that Kingdom knew about the cave's secret and they only learn as the last King is on death bed.

 

2. your using the defaullt charsets, aluxes :P, although alot of people just leave them like that and change them later but I don't know whether or not your changing them. -

Yes, I'm using the default character, Aluxes, but only because I think he fits the character very well.

 

3. Well, how exactly do the 2 people end up interupting the ritual? -

The game actually explains this a little bit better than the short little story synopsis above. The Hermit cult actually has left their underground sanctuary in order to perform the ritual. The reason behind certain things will be explained in the game[actually not until Chapter Two maybe]. The game has a story that can't really be shortened into a synopsis very well and I really don't want to have to write the whole story out, twists and all. That would defeat the purpose of playing the game.

 

4. how do your characters end up in that place? -

Well, since the cult had to leave their sanctuary and go to the place in which their God was imprisoned in order to break the seal, the main characters stumble upon them as their in the middle of the ritual.

 

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Have you had a chance to play the game? Let me know what you think.

[Raxus 0]

Hey, other than the Aluxes character, I loved it. Very good use of scripts. I loved the message system, the opening credits and especially the battle system. By the way, Can you PM me the script for the battle system, please. :D The story was a little blah at the begining but it really shot off from the time he left the castle.

Though with every good thing, there were some map problems in the castle and when you talked to one of the sleeping/wounded people in the hospitial place only the chick charater (...)-ed. But over all, great.

[Firestalker5 0]

Hey, other than the Aluxes character, I loved it. Very good use of scripts. I loved the message system, the opening credits and especially the battle system. By the way, Can you PM me the script for the battle system, please. :D The story was a little blah at the begining but it really shot off from the time he left the castle.

Though with every good thing, there were some map problems in the castle and when you talked to one of the sleeping/wounded people in the hospitial place only the chick charater (...)-ed. But over all, great.

 

 

 

Thanks Raxus... I'm glad you liked it. did you managed to get all the way through? Can you point out the mapping problems so that I can fix them? Thanks.

 

The battle system is KGC's Active Count Battle 2. I'll pm the links for you.

[Guest Hellfire Dragon]

Have you had a chance to play the game? Let me know what you think.

 

I actually didn't see the download link lol :lol: I'm downloading now and I'll give some comments when I play it ;)

[Firestalker5 0]

cool.... thanks

[Firestalker5 0]

Some one on another board pointed out a game crashing bug that I have no fixed.

 

The instructions on how to fix the bug are in the Downloads Section of the OP.