Retsu Arashi Psychic Storm is a story driven Rpgmaker adventure inspired by classic martial art movies: Toko is a student of Master Tao, but the dojo where he trains is attacked by a group of ninjas lead by a mysterious masked figure. This is just the beginning of an adventure that will take Toko to battle the forces of evil, aided by his friends Yuriko and Rin Hontai, and save his hometown.
A 2005 Rpgmaker complete game, it was one of the first that used lots of animations for party members and enemies, utilizing lots of custom edited sprites from classic 2D fighting games. The game is very linear and has also set battles, meaning that encounters are never avoidable, there are a couple of diversions like fishing, collecting fireflies and avoiding traps, but not much else. Anyway the game is polished, maps are very good, and it's very different from most other Rpgmaker games. The folder of the game includes a map of the main village and a walkthrough.
Random Fact: the game is complete and Toko's adventure has a conclusion, but the ending hints at further adventures: not only new locations of the world are mentioned, but the game assets and sprites also include some unused sprites and backgrounds of characters and places that were probably going to appear in the further adventures of Toko, since they seem to belong to a more modern/western setting.
Final Verdict: a pretty unique game for the time in which was made, it has some aspects that couls have been improved: there are few items and consumables, few enemy types and the battles are all unavoidable, an aspect that makes especially the final part of the game a slog. But combat aside this is a pretty good adventure game.
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