A downloadable game for Windows

Look back on time with kindly eyes,
He doubtless did his best;
How softly sinks his trembling sun
In human nature's west!

—Emily Dickinson


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This Too Shall Pass.zip 48 MB

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Just run the .exe like usual

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Hey iowacorn! Did a let's play of your game!

Interesting idea for a game, a randomized dungeon where you play as cartoon characters from the 90s, pretty cool! However it had a lot of problems, mostly bugs... Watch the let's play to find out more!

Thanks for playing Barako and for noticing the switches on that 2nd floor. I had copypasted that stair event from another floor that does require 2 switches and forgot lol. The island floor where you push the colored boulders, you were so close to finishing it! When you push a block to the right Star of David, you have to press the action button ONE more time. I don't know why but it's the only way for the game to take notice of the boulder's XY co-ordinates, which is what confirms you pushed it into the right spot. If you activate the yellow and blue boulders, you open up bridges to get behind the red boulder, so you can push it forward properly. If you mess up you're fucked and that's my bad, I should have added a reset button near the start and will be doing that.

I deliberately left out saving because I want players to "accept their fate", no matter what, and that's why there's randomization, to make playthroughs a little more fun. Walking speed in my old games used to be extremely slow and I realize now it sucked but this is a good medium because I find default RPGMaker speed to be too fast, as a fan of old RPGs, especially NES ones like Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy (before the run button). And the reason you don't have many spells or ways to differentiate the characters is because the game is only 3 floors right now. If you make it down to floor 10 or 12 or something, you'd have accumulated a lot of spellbooks (in fact, some treasure chests guarantee at least one spell, and you have a huge chance of getting Heal by the first boss) as well as stat seeds (like from Dragon Quest). Random equipment also makes for varied character "builds", so with some diligence you could make proper mages, paladins, etc. I don't know how to add item stealing to RPGMaker sadly so no rogues I guess. But by level 10, with different armor/weapons, deliberate stat boosting, and varied spells the characters can become whatever you want. That's why they start as blank slates.

Also, the wizard guy you talked to raised your party's stats by 5, permanently. He has a 1 in 8 chance of appearing on a floor, just a fun little boost that I remembered from playing Dragon Warrior Monsters. I'll add dialogue to confirm that's what he does so there's no confusion, thanks for helping :)

Yeah there was a lot of problems with this game, but doesn't mean it can't be worked on! Again, I really like the general idea your going for, having them blank slates is a great idea, and I get where your coming from with it, a kind of roguelike where it gives a lot of choice as to what character builds you wanna go with. Its definitely ambitious, and I'll probably play it again if you ever finish it! I'm glad to help and thanks for watching!

As for the walking speed, I only removed it cause I was annoyed at having to repeat everything again, the areas were small so it wasn't that annoying doing it once.  But doing it again was a bit much however...

I've seen stealing in other RPG Maker 2000 games, it should be pretty easy to implement! Simply add a switch to conditions in battle events in each of the troops you want to use it in, then put a message detailing what you're stealing, then add the item you are stealing! You can't choose which enemy you steal from, you just kinda steal from the group, but it's still pretty cool! Tell you what, I'll add a stealing tutorial to my RPG Maker 2000 tutorial maps for you to look over, as well as various ways you can use the Battle Events in the Troops tab to make custom skills... (I can think of several interesting things you can do with it, having mp regen, dialogue during battles... useful stuff you'd might wanna include in your games)