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Mark Pay has dropped the price tag from his side-scrolling indie RPG <b><a href="http://www.thespiritengine.com/tse2-info.html" target="blank">The Spirit Engine 2</a></b> and made it freeware. Download links can be found <a href="http://www.thespiritengine.com/tse2-download.php" target="blank">here</a>.
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<ul><blockquote><li>An extensive plot spanning nine distinct chapters. History is unravelling in the once peaceful state of Lereftain. Murderous cults are running unchecked through the streets, parliament is bickering, tension is building with old enemies in the west and the country's inhuman rulers seem to be losing control of the situation. Three citizens who find their paths crossing in an act of charity one dark night will find themselves burdened with the responsibilty of not only defending the nation but deciding whether to save civilisation as they know it.</li>
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<li>All new and improved original graphics. Simple yet effective new effects, including parallax scrolling and screen-shake.</li>
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<li>The introduction of something sorely missing from the original - difficulty levels! Play at a level to suit you and either lock it there or feel free to change it as and when you like.</li>
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<li>An improved real-time combat system which builds upon the simplicity of the original. With an improved interface, greater control over characters, combat speed options and action synchronisation controls to make battles more tactical and more fun.</li>
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<li>New game combat mechanics such as automatic character recovery, party chains and combination strike damage bonuses.</li>
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<li>New, varied character skills to play with, including targetted attacks and debuffs, and a whole host of crafty, unfriendly creatures to use them on.</li>
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<li>A vast stock of equipable items with new abilities. </li></blockquote></ul>
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In before "since when does the Codex cover JRPGS"
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Spotted at: <A HREF="http://www.indiegames.com/blog/">IndieGames</A>

 

since when does the Codex cover JRPGS

 

Bullshit.

 

This is like a bull covered in shit.

 

Is this game a cRPG?

 

depend on what you mean by cRPG.

 

if by cRPG you mean jRPG then it's good for what it is

 

The game seemed to be very good to me, with some replayability, until it simply became too frustrating without grinding for hours... so yeah, pretty much a jRPG.

 

Well, it's probably more "RPG" than ME2, Bioshock and AP.

 

Yeah that is so difficult to accomplish....

 

Pretty cool 2D art.

 

It's not western style cRPG (Torment, Baldur's Gate and the like), it's Japanese style cRPG. Difference is that generally that jRPG's emphasise combat and stat building and western cRPG's generally emphasise the story elements. jRPG's are also more suitable for consoles in general as their roots come from consoles.

 

Petrell, epic deferred success in spotting sarcasm. Lurk more.

 

So guys I need a review: is it good for what it is or actually good? Free games always excite me.

 

Good for what it is, but hardly a must-play. From what I can tell, the game is almost completely linear, which gets annoying quickly.

The combat is okay, but not extremely entertaining. The story seems to be okay. The background art is nice. I find the characters rather good (unusually for such a game, most of them seem to be above 30).

 

I tried either this one or the prequel some time ago, i thinkity think. Wasn't this the one you can make a party of three catholic priests with shotguns? It ran like total bleep in the notebook i had back then, though. That was one really crappy notebook, nya.

 

What the hell. Emo gets banned and black cat is still around?

Self ban initiatied. Fuch yeah!

 

I'm really happy for you and imma let you finish but i still want to

1) hear opinions of people how actually use it
2) know if any anyone played a games they consider half decent that was made by this engine

 

It's a game, not an engine. Too dumb to check the link? What a dumbass, FFS.

 

Hah! I'm so lazy it has is reached dumbass proportions.

 

I've given up on the game. The story and characters are really interesting and the art is good, but the linearity is unbearable and the fights are repetitive and annoying.

 

http://www.gametunnel.com/the-spirit-en ... review.php

My brother was into the original game. The battle system really sets it apart. I'm going to try this one as soon as I get the time to beat TSE1 (also freeware).

 

http://music.jwmusic.org/album/the-spir ... soundtrack

Soundtrack's also available for free. Just enter $0 as your price and use a mailinator address for spam.