In my opinion, the game is way longer than 30 hours since there are barely any walkthrough or tips online. The game has some pretty fun puzzles. It is pretty hard to get some equipment and buffs. But, the graphics are okay and the story is really good. There are some bugs and errors that put me in disadvantage while fighting which is pretty annoying.
(it's on the site as a utility) Install the package to this games install folder and NOT directly to the game. It will look I.e.: D:\The Lucidia Chronicles\RPGVXAce
Now you can run Game.exe and it will start up correctly.
My Feedback: I wasn't able to finish the game, but I enjoyed everything I played. Story was good, mapping was excellent, a lot of things were right in the game and it's nice to have some puzzles and things to do in the towns. The problem I had is there is only a hard difficulty mode instead of letting us pick easy or normal and some puzzles are too complex for me too. I think a difficulty setting or balancing the battles to make them a lot easier would've worked better but I still enjoyed what I could play of the game. I still want to give this 5 stars because it's otherwise very enjoyable. I look forward to any further project done by the developer.
How am I supposed to hit both the red and blue switches to open the bottom right door in the temple of the divine's crystal/bridge room. The blue switch always raises the red switches and starts a 9 sec timer, which isn't long enough to switch the crystals and hit another red switch. Using the green switch to lock the blue switch doesn't work, because the green switch also raises the blue switch when undone.
So I'm a few hours into the game and have some feedback for somethings that are driving me absolutly crazy. I so far have been completely unable to sell anything. It's really hard to upgrade my equipment when I can't sell my old stuff. The second thing is that you can't go backwards. I was running extremely low on healing items after meeting the princess, but was unable to go back to the store at the ferry dock. It made that section more frustrating than fun. The final thing is that healing items heal much less than the majority of creatures and monster I run into, which means that it's near impossible to keep the characters a live for any length of time, which is even more frustrating added to the fact that I can't go back and get more healing items. Over all I really like this game. The storyline is easy to get sucked into, and the battle system itself is similar enough to other games that it's easy to figure out what to do, but different enough that it doesn't feel like a cookie cutter system. Somethings I noticed that you might want to look into but that didn't make me want to rage quit; all the weapons I've found have a lower attack than the starter weapons which makes having them in the game seem kinda useless as I'm more than likely never going to equip them, there's currently no way to access the settings to do things like turn of the background music or change from window to full screen, and, finally, there aren't really any tutorials to explain how systems within the game work or anything to help you figure out what to do. For example, in the cat quest I was convinced the the little girls cat was the one I was looking for, I could even try to pick it up, and as that house was right next to the old man's, and there was nothing to point me to where the cat actually was, I ended up spening way longer on that quest than I should have had too.
I feel bad because that is a lot of stuff, but I really do love this game! I can't wait to find out what's going on and to see what you guys do with the game as it's worked on!
I had that problem the first time, too. I just tried again a few hours later. If possible, you should set your antivirus to exclude https://itch.io/, as well as thelucidiachronicles.zip, and the extracted contents' install location, from being blocked/searched, so as to avoid false-positives (or, I guess, a 'false-negative', in this case, since viruses are bad :shudder: )
Also, I feel I should point out that this game is extremely difficult, and will unmercifully punish anything short of perfection in combat (exploration is also well-rewarded; treasure chests lie on every map, except for dream/vision sequences, often in out-of-the-way and hard-to-reach places, and almost always contain valuable items, such as restoratives/curatives and gear, also money quite often). The combat itself is in the 'Active-Time Battle' (ATB) system; specifically, an 'ongoing' ATB system, where enemy turn gauges keep filling even while selecting actions for the party (I also feel I should point out that there's no 'auto-healing' in-between battles). Personally, I could deal with all that, if the enemies themselves weren't so tough right from the beginning. The very first enemy you encounter (in random encounters, no less), the wasp, can poison (called 'toxic' in this game) a single character for pretty decent damage at such an early point (less than 10 minutes of story out of 30 hours total), while the second enemy, the slime, usually deals 6 damage to a single character (which adds up over the course of several battles). And bosses are absolutely ruthless, and that's putting it mildly; you will encounter your very first boss on the very first random-encounter map. It's something along the lines of a giant, man-eating plant that can poison the entire party for very high damage, with a strong normal attack as well. And the entrance to the very first dungeon is right at the end of the very first random-encounter map. The enemies here are rats and bats (no joke, 'least not on my part), both of which hit hard (damage in the teens, which, again, really adds up, even if you did some extra battles for grinding; the only break here is that they don't inflict status ailments); however, the real danger here is a rare, fire-elemental-type enemy that can appear in random battles, which are completely immune to physical damage. Unfortunately, there are no spell-casters in your party at this time (in fact, you won't get an offencive spell-caster until much later in the game; your first spell-caster is a healer, whose abilities you probably won't get to make much use of, since she has very low HP, ATK, and DEF, and, thus, dies quickly), and only Orin's special, offencive ability seems to damage them, but the two characters that you have at this time only have enough MP for one use of one special ability, and you only have a few MP-restoring items at this point from treasure chests, with absolutely no way to buy moreuntil you've found the hexagram with a dead girl in the middle in the cave. In the third random-encounter area, just south of the brothers' home-town, you will encounter giant snakes, and even more of them in the fourth random-encounter area. These snakes hit hard, with a decent chance of inflicting a potent poison with each attack. You gain a healer on the fourth random-encounter map, but, as aforementioned, she won't be of much help. It was at this point that I quit, though I certainly wish you much better luck and hope that you enjoy it much more than I had!
P.S. If you do manage to download and extract the .zip, be sure to download the run-time package (RTP) that Mangal2012 linked to, below. Also, you may try downloading the game from the official RPGMaker forum, which, for whatever reason, doesn't need the RTP.
Thanks for some tips, I appreciate you pointing out the much difficult stuff in the game and spending minutes of your life by typing it. Although, you say its ruthless.......... I'm getting more curious about it. Anyway thanks again.... :):):)
That one.^^^ This was a requirement for a different game but since your Error box has the same name...I downloaded it just fine, no bugs or anything. Maybe this will help you too.
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Human chronicles 🙂 (help i am being beat up by plants)
(the game itself beat me up, causing me to be stuck in a dungeon.)
In my opinion, the game is way longer than 30 hours since there are barely any walkthrough or tips online. The game has some pretty fun puzzles. It is pretty hard to get some equipment and buffs. But, the graphics are okay and the story is really good. There are some bugs and errors that put me in disadvantage while fighting which is pretty annoying.
Your walkthrough is … gone? Which is unfortunate, because I'm stuck right at the very beginning.
Go to the rpgmaker website and download the
RMVXAce Run-Time-Package
(it's on the site as a utility) Install the package to this games install folder and NOT directly to the game. It will look I.e.: D:\The Lucidia Chronicles\RPGVXAce
Now you can run Game.exe and it will start up correctly.
My Feedback: I wasn't able to finish the game, but I enjoyed everything I played. Story was good, mapping was excellent, a lot of things were right in the game and it's nice to have some puzzles and things to do in the towns. The problem I had is there is only a hard difficulty mode instead of letting us pick easy or normal and some puzzles are too complex for me too. I think a difficulty setting or balancing the battles to make them a lot easier would've worked better but I still enjoyed what I could play of the game. I still want to give this 5 stars because it's otherwise very enjoyable. I look forward to any further project done by the developer.
How am I supposed to hit both the red and blue switches to open the bottom right door in the temple of the divine's crystal/bridge room. The blue switch always raises the red switches and starts a 9 sec timer, which isn't long enough to switch the crystals and hit another red switch. Using the green switch to lock the blue switch doesn't work, because the green switch also raises the blue switch when undone.
is there something to do with de broken wand?... kinda like verity lost it and find it exactly the same in the fire cave
So I'm a few hours into the game and have some feedback for somethings that are driving me absolutly crazy. I so far have been completely unable to sell anything. It's really hard to upgrade my equipment when I can't sell my old stuff. The second thing is that you can't go backwards. I was running extremely low on healing items after meeting the princess, but was unable to go back to the store at the ferry dock. It made that section more frustrating than fun. The final thing is that healing items heal much less than the majority of creatures and monster I run into, which means that it's near impossible to keep the characters a live for any length of time, which is even more frustrating added to the fact that I can't go back and get more healing items. Over all I really like this game. The storyline is easy to get sucked into, and the battle system itself is similar enough to other games that it's easy to figure out what to do, but different enough that it doesn't feel like a cookie cutter system. Somethings I noticed that you might want to look into but that didn't make me want to rage quit; all the weapons I've found have a lower attack than the starter weapons which makes having them in the game seem kinda useless as I'm more than likely never going to equip them, there's currently no way to access the settings to do things like turn of the background music or change from window to full screen, and, finally, there aren't really any tutorials to explain how systems within the game work or anything to help you figure out what to do. For example, in the cat quest I was convinced the the little girls cat was the one I was looking for, I could even try to pick it up, and as that house was right next to the old man's, and there was nothing to point me to where the cat actually was, I ended up spening way longer on that quest than I should have had too.
I feel bad because that is a lot of stuff, but I really do love this game! I can't wait to find out what's going on and to see what you guys do with the game as it's worked on!
Is there a way to have the game in full screen?
Can't download the game google stops it. It says,"Download failed-forbidden".
I had that problem the first time, too. I just tried again a few hours later. If possible, you should set your antivirus to exclude https://itch.io/, as well as thelucidiachronicles.zip, and the extracted contents' install location, from being blocked/searched, so as to avoid false-positives (or, I guess, a 'false-negative', in this case, since viruses are bad :shudder: )
Also, I feel I should point out that this game is extremely difficult, and will unmercifully punish anything short of perfection in combat (exploration is also well-rewarded; treasure chests lie on every map, except for dream/vision sequences, often in out-of-the-way and hard-to-reach places, and almost always contain valuable items, such as restoratives/curatives and gear, also money quite often). The combat itself is in the 'Active-Time Battle' (ATB) system; specifically, an 'ongoing' ATB system, where enemy turn gauges keep filling even while selecting actions for the party (I also feel I should point out that there's no 'auto-healing' in-between battles). Personally, I could deal with all that, if the enemies themselves weren't so tough right from the beginning. The very first enemy you encounter (in random encounters, no less), the wasp, can poison (called 'toxic' in this game) a single character for pretty decent damage at such an early point (less than 10 minutes of story out of 30 hours total), while the second enemy, the slime, usually deals 6 damage to a single character (which adds up over the course of several battles). And bosses are absolutely ruthless, and that's putting it mildly; you will encounter your very first boss on the very first random-encounter map. It's something along the lines of a giant, man-eating plant that can poison the entire party for very high damage, with a strong normal attack as well. And the entrance to the very first dungeon is right at the end of the very first random-encounter map. The enemies here are rats and bats (no joke, 'least not on my part), both of which hit hard (damage in the teens, which, again, really adds up, even if you did some extra battles for grinding; the only break here is that they don't inflict status ailments); however, the real danger here is a rare, fire-elemental-type enemy that can appear in random battles, which are completely immune to physical damage. Unfortunately, there are no spell-casters in your party at this time (in fact, you won't get an offencive spell-caster until much later in the game; your first spell-caster is a healer, whose abilities you probably won't get to make much use of, since she has very low HP, ATK, and DEF, and, thus, dies quickly), and only Orin's special, offencive ability seems to damage them, but the two characters that you have at this time only have enough MP for one use of one special ability, and you only have a few MP-restoring items at this point from treasure chests, with absolutely no way to buy more
until you've found the hexagram with a dead girl in the middle in the cave. In the third random-encounter area,just south of the brothers' home-town,you will encounter giant snakes, and even more of them in the fourth random-encounter area. These snakes hit hard, with a decent chance of inflicting a potent poison with each attack. You gain a healer on the fourth random-encounter map, but, as aforementioned, she won't be of much help. It was at this point that I quit, though I certainly wish you much better luck and hope that you enjoy it much more than I had!P.S. If you do manage to download and extract the .zip, be sure to download the run-time package (RTP) that Mangal2012 linked to, below. Also, you may try downloading the game from the official RPGMaker forum, which, for whatever reason, doesn't need the RTP.
Thanks for some tips, I appreciate you pointing out the much difficult stuff in the game and spending minutes of your life by typing it. Although, you say its ruthless.......... I'm getting more curious about it. Anyway thanks again.... :):):)
You need to download a certain program to play it.
RPG VX Ace RTP should be installed first. http://www.rpgmakerweb.com/download/additional/run-time-packages
That one.^^^ This was a requirement for a different game but since your Error box has the same name...I downloaded it just fine, no bugs or anything. Maybe this will help you too.