You are Clifford, a scrubby hick with a penchant for amorality, sarcasm, and thumping stuff before thinking. Along with his comrades, Clifford travels a twisted path towards his great fate: to be the one destined to "try" and fight Gwar, the demonic villain whose name is only coincidentally after the 80's metal band. Along this path your journeys take many unstereotypical routes - such as a Battle of the Bands, DNA cloning, ghost pirate sea ballads, and an infectious disease that sounds more like a cereal. The journey also contains particularly stereotypical routes - such as the Generic Tower, discussions over whether towers are more evil than caves, and the Island of Too Many Towers.
The Sword & the Fish is a very old Rpgmaker game, and the second most downloaded, or so they said. It's a very long and epic humorous adventure of a group of friends in a fantasy world that form a rock band but end fighting demons and travel through time becoming heroes, and opposing also the "real predestined hero" (that unsurprisingly has the classic Alex RTP charset). The game includes the cameo of various characters real or imaginary, such as Chun Li from Street Fighter II, and is pretty entertaining.
The game site includes several extras, like a comic and a guide for the setting and details on all the playable party members.
Random Fact: The Sword & the Fish is a game created in 2000 and completed in 2006, however it got a 2020 version. You can find this special version here: https://rpgmaker.net/games/11653/
This upgraded version removes Kid Rock from the game and upgrades the dialogues, making them more grammatically correct and PG-friendly, removing some profanities and vulgar language. For the rest the game isn't any different.
Final Verdict: the Sword and the Fish plays better than he looks, it's funny and
probably one of the longest and best comedic/parody Rpgmaker games. I
had fun and I wasted a lot of my time in this game, and, most
importantly, I played it to the end! This is because the game
entertained me from the beginning to the end, and while I find that
there are some parts that could have been improved, I saw a lot of care
for what regards the musical choice, the storyline and the character
progression (at mid point most party members take an upgrade that is
also reflected with a change of their appearance!). In the end this is not a bad game,
it's a nice game with some frustrating dungeons with random encounters
(but they are short), so in the end on the surface we have a normal jrpg
with comedy, parody and weird (but great) dialogues. But this made it
fun since it's entertaining, balanced and well designed, but this will
be noticed only if you play it!