How could you not? It's been years when it first was announced . But lucky you - so you did not need to wait for it like the rest of us had. :)

This one has the same main characters as "To the Moon" and should be much closer to the first. "A Bird Story" was always announced to be a bit different and not as big.

RPG Maker is probably 99% shovelware. It makes it a lot easier to do very specific, bland things that were already done 1000x over in the 90s.

To The Moon mostly does things that RPG Maker wasn't especially built to do, skipping over combat, stats, and the like completely.* It uses only part of the engine to make a roaming "point and click" sort of game. It sort of bends the definition of "game" to the point where it's more of an interactive storybook, which is completely fine and it is what it is.

idk if RPG Maker has grown in its capabilities since the old days, but I would be pretty skeptical about an RPG Maker game if I were looking for inventive game mechanics. If you're going to innovate the mechanics beyond a certain point, you may as well use Unity or a programming language. It just happens that if all you need to do is make people talk when you press A on them, RPG Maker has that easily covered.

I understand why it would be a turn-off, but TTM more than transcends the platform - ironically, through discarding a large portion of its functionality entirely. It's a lot like writing a fine novel onto an NES cartridge simply because you only need a mechanism to put words on a screen.

* - ok, there was an Easter egg early on, but that's not the point. This was more of a 4th wall joke about the development tool than anything else, in my reading of it.

Because as everyone knows, 2D animation is really easy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8OuqVmBChk

Fake trailer, good stuff.

I think you have a point here. To the Moon and A Bird Story are two good reasons for me not to buy Finding Paradise. I suspect it to be the same old of something that didn't convince me in the past.

can't wait to play it

Uhm, you can actually program in RPG maker so this argument doesnt make any sense.There is a scripting Language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scripting_language

The earlier Versions used Ruby if i recall correctly and the Newest one uses Java.

Bought the GOG version and finished the game last night.
Every To the Moon fans should play this game too!

glad to hear that. very much looking forward to this one.

another great tale to play though

They said that flac is coming.

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Again profound excellence in psychological emotional storytelling down to the last note. Damn they're good.

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