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The Reconstruction Part 8 – “Watch Your Ankles” (Guest Review)

  12/11/2013       St. Elmo's Fire      Add Comment

Last time, we saw our first quest with Dehl and company. It was pretty boring. Two new, more interesting quests have now opened up. The tchiitra-killing farmer has a quest for us, and so does the off-duty guard that we couldn’t interact with before. I’ll do the latter quest first.

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The Reconstruction Part 1 (Guest Review)

  12/02/2013       St. Elmo's Fire      3 Comments

The Reconstruction is an RPG made in RPG Maker XP. When it was released in 2009, I absolutely adored it. It is still probably among my favorite games of all time, and is definitely one of the best RPG Maker games I have ever seen. It has since spawned both a prequel and a sequel, both similarly excellent in my opinion.

It’s not without its flaws, though, and I think it would be a pertinent exercise to look back and see how well the nostalgia holds up. This won’t be a single-post review, but a long series spanning the entire game, much like Farla’s reviews of the Pokemon games. Unfortunately, since I’ve already played it, I can’t do a running commentary. I can’t exactly do a retrospective nostalgia trip either, since I doubt most of the readers are familiar with the material, in which case I think spoiler-free is the best policy. As such, my own comments will probably be limited, but we’ll see how things go.

(Post-Completion Addendum: I was really bad at following through with this, and this will probably make no sense if you haven’t played the game yourself. I would advise reading my review of the prequel first if you’re skimming, as that one is more self-contained.)

Also: It is freeware, and can be downloaded here if you’d like to follow along. (more…)

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