[VX] Eternal Star Vol 1: Mystic Path[DEMO AVAILABLE]

Game Title – Eternal Star: Mystic Path
Platform: RPG Maker VX

Story Background

You start out with an unknown wielder of the Crimson Flame sneaking about through an underground laboratory trying to rescue
a couple kids from the clutches of the Skythe Corporation. Things do not go as planned, but he discovers some truths and unfortunate
events that he would never suspect. What is Skythe's intentions and why are they trying to seek out the Mystic's abilities? This story
will revolve around the eventual unraveling of Skythe's Scheme and their Minerva Operation. Also, how far does the corruption within
the Kingdom of Tyr go and who is pulling the strings? The ongoing fear of an Astarian attack keeps the Tyrians on edge while something
more sinister is at work behind the scenes. The main hero will eventually be thrown into the unfortunate events that will soon unfold
even if he really does not want to. Can you help his sister cope with the upcoming events that will unfold?





World Development




The world is on a verge of a scientific evolution. The lack of the respect for nature and the planet's resources is becoming more
notable. In the distant past, a mistake was made in depleting the planet's life force, which led to major catastrophes, which almost
led to the destruction of the planet. Mankind was thought to have learned from past mistakes; however, history is known to repeat
itself. Magic is the normality in this world, but the use of ether is considered taboo. Anyone who uses this power is labeled a
Mystic and as such they are hunted down by the Inquisition to be put on trial for their practice of the demonic arts. On thecontinent of Chronus, the kingdom of Tyr and the kingdom of Astaria have had many conflicts in regard to land resources and
mineral resources such as mithril and gold. These conflicts usually have resorted to war between the two kingdoms throughout the
beginning of mankind's historical arrival on Chronus 1500 years ago. AFter the last Continental War the kingdoms have signed a
pact to provide a better way to manage export and import of resources between the kingdoms.

Character Biography
??: The infamous Crimson Flash who is said to take on some of the most dangerous missions for the Organization. He is also currently investigating the Skythe Corporation to determine their purpose. Not much is known about this man except that not many have crossed blades with him and lived to tell about it. Rumors have it that he used to be a Mercenary before he joined the Organization.

Rykar Demarz: The main hero of the game who is currently a member of the Organization. He takes low end missions to help support both his sister and himself. He currently lives in his hometown of Agant with his sister Stella. He provides the means to bring food to the table and lives under the same roof as his role model and father figure Terris Kelstar. His parents went missing when he was young and everyone suspects they were killed.

Stella Demarz: The sister of the main hero who lives at home in Agant. She is blind due to an event in the distant past when she was a little girl. Due to her loss of sight, she has her other senses heightened beyond the average human especially her hearing. She is dependant on Rykar's support although sometimes it can be more of an annoyance than anything. She grows tired of Rykar being overprotective due to her disability. She is currently living in the same house as her father figure Terris Kelstar.

Luke Ikaris: The current captain of the Agant Militia, which acts independently from the military of the Tyr Kingdom. Most villages due not have their own protective guard and rely on the District armies or the Royal Military for protection; however, due to the increased attacks from the wildlife nearby they decided to form their own defense unit. He is a strong-willed man who grew up with Rykar and Stella as childhood friends. He is currently watching Rykar's home while he is away on his current mission.


Features
Tantenkai Side View Battle System Non-ATB
ATS 3.0
Sky Party Manager
Sky’s Achievement
Woratana’s Monster Book
BulletXT’s SwapXT
BulletXT's Thomas Edison VX
Melmarvin's Rainy Title Screen
Rafidelis Title X
Much Much More

Download – Demo V1.0 Complete
Progress Estimation Till Game Completion – 8%
Gameplay Time – At least three hours
Known Errors – Do not know of any at this time
Credits – Enterbrain, RPG Maker XP RTP, RPG Maker VX RTP, Masashi Kishimoto, SithJester, rgangsta and some other various artists I am still trying to research to find out who they are.





I appreciate any input from anyone who has interest in my project in the works. Thank you for all your help and I help for some great feedback. How do you like my mappings, storyline, plot, character descs etc.
Thank you once again.


*WARNING* There are strong religious overtones and graphical violence, so play at your own discretion


*UPDATE*: After a whole year has passed since the game demo's official release, I am proud to present to you version 1.5. There are many new things added to the new version aside from more storyline. You will
now be able to choose missions from the Organization Branch. There are many various categories of missions to take up to 10 different types and each category varies in itself. There is now also a Member Ranking
List that will show you your current rank compared to the rest of those within the Organization. Four new locations were added since my last update and at least two more new characters make their appearance. Also,
the new trap chests system has been implemented as well for those who love booby traps. You have a chance to avoid the traps or take less damage depending on your defense or magic defense and evasion and
agility. Also, for the missions if you do not complete them in enough time like say if the story progresses then you would miss your chance to succeed and may end up failing a mission. I am proud to announce the
new skill upgrade system that is used in conjunction with mastering skills. In other words, you must use a certain skill a certain number of times to master it and then you can upgrade that to its next level.

All in all, I hope you enjoy the latest update and feel free to let me know what you think of the latest changes. I look forward to the responses, so let me hear them.

Here is the link to the game: Eternal Star Vol 1: Mystic Path Version 1.5

Title screen looks awesome, story seems pretty unique. So looks pretty good.

Thank you for your comments. I appreciate it. I am glad you are enjoying the demo so far. I am just curious how long did it
take for you to reach the ending credits? Thank you for your time.

I had only looked at the screenshots and read the plot, I tried to download the demo and as usual Norton removed. I can un-quarantine it but I'm not sure if it's safe. Not that you planted a virus, but there is a chance media fire did. Once again good work. 

Perhaps I should zip the file up to prevent that from happening. Thank you for letting me know. I am not sure but perhaps everyone else may be having the same issues.

Okay, this is the new link I am putting up with a zipped file with an .rar extension. I have virus scanned the file and there were no viruses, so it should be clean. Anyone
please let me know if you still have any problems with downloading the file. Thank you.

The new link is: http://www.mediafire.com/file/vi228tca4mde8as/Eternal%20Star%20Mystic%20Path.rar

There are actually many more errors, under game.ini place the following "RTP=RPGVX" under [game] (it will appear as "RTP-RPGVX"). There is also the missing graphics for the title screen, my computer compiled this log of what it is missing.

That is weird because I checked game.ini and they all have RTP=RPGVX and also the folders for graphics/title with the files there. I used RMVX compress features with checks for encrypt and include rtp. Perhaps there is something screwy with those features?

It has always worked for me, you could uninstall and reinstall rpg maker vx. There is also a probability that an open program was conflicting when you tried to compress. 

Alright, first I am going to compress one with encrypted and one without and see if same problem. If still is I will try uninstall and reinstall. Thank you for helping. It is very irritating that something so simple needs to be so difficult, but I'll figure it out soon enough.

I'm curious. Does your extraction fail when you try installing it? I keep getting that for me and I am trying more than one computer.

Yes it does do that but no one has had a problem with them.

It is very weird. IT would keep crapping out around when it reaches the graphics/animations folder for extraction. I will try removing all animations and see how much further
it will make it in the extraction process. I even saw the animations after it failed out and it transfered a third of a file and the rest was white space and then no further files were
transferred. Do you think the title of my project could be the problem? There is a colon in it: Eternal Star: Mystic Path? Thank you for your help.

Very unlikely due to the fact windows prevents conflicting characters.

Alright, even after removing all animations it just crapped out in parallaxes folder with same problem. There isn't a limit to how big a size the extractable executable can be before RMVX craps out is there? It always seems to make it past the audio and data folders. Will now try the uninstall and reinstall and see what happens.

EDIT: I just thought of something else. Is it possible for a script to pose a problem for the compress option in RMVX?

Alright.... I am at a loss for words. I have cleared all scripts and tried to build the compressed executable and still same problem. I uninstalled RMVX and completely reinstalled and still the problem lingers. I am going to use winrar and after manually combining the RTP files put it all in a .rar file with fodler structure intact. This way a simple extract is all one would need wherever they wish their uncompressing software to put it. I have tried and unless you can think of any other way, then I will have to do that so I can get the ball moving of course and everyone can actually enjoy the demo. I do appreciate your patience as well as everyone else while I try to fix this issue. Thank you.

No problem, I will tell you if I think of a solution.

Alright, I have the new link up. Let me know if you have any problems and it is a rar file once again.

Here is the link: http://www.mediafire.com/file/a9qvvra7f9gsmpz/Eternal%20Star%20Mystic%20Path%20Demo%20V1.0.rar

EDIT: Sorry link was broken earlier. This new rar file should be the final link and you do not need the RTP installed any longer to play it. I will test play it as well to make
sure nothing is different or out of place. Thank you all for sticking in there with me

Alright it works fine, now here's my honest opinion: Over all the game is good, best title screen I have ever seen. I find a little to hard sneak past the guards. I can be out of sight but if they face the way where I am they detect me. Another thing is, is this a modern or medieval game? People have swords and knight armor yet there is air conditioning. This is only constructive criticism, it is a pretty good game so far. One last thing the face graphics are kinda low quality, a while back I found this awesome face set generator. http://gen8hedgehog.deviantart.com/art/Anime-Face-Maker-v1-0-75897890

Perhaps I can lessen the range they use to detect. That should help out some. The game is in a medieval setting however mankind has come across ancient technology that they are starting to research and learn how to utilize the technology for their benefit. Now I suppose it may be going too far to have ventilation in which I can remove to make it stick with a more medieval theme. About the face set generator, I hope it can generate some faces that will closely resemble the character sprites I have in the game. If there is no problem with finding a matching face then that generator will be ideal. I do agree with the face graphics being low quality, but since I am not a graphic artist by any means they were the closest I could find to match their sprites.

Btw, were you able to get past the intro portion and all the sneaking around? How far have you gotten and have you reached the ending credits yet? When you do I am curious what your total game time played was. Thanks for playing. Look forward to hearing from you soon.

I never made it past the guards.....

Alright, I'll fix that right away so that there will not be a problem there. I apologize for it being so difficult.

Okay, I have the updated link for you. I have removed the ventilation and lowered the difficulty of the guards so that their range is much less. This should help you get further. Let me know if you have any more difficulties.

The link is here: http://www.mediafire.com/file/9rdnwjdr6857yjg/Eternal%20Star%20Mystic%20Path%20Demo%20V1.0.rar

It took about 15 minutes with no mistakes, I got to the point where he keeps repeating something about flames buying him time. I love smoking every one with guardian from the ashes.

Hehe, yeah it's my favorite too however the cost in mp makes me want to save that one for bosses. Another one that works well is the Flames of Judgement that attacks everyone as well and still gets the job done. Okay 15 minutes with no mistakes, does that mean there was mistakes after that point? Was there something that prevented you from going further than the wall of flames that buys him time to make it to the next floor?

At the wall of flames he repeated a line over and over again. By no mistakes I mean I was never caught. I also didn't explore other places I just went along with what that lady told me.

That's weird. With the amount of times I have played through I have never encountered a loop like that. Did you press the action button on the flames or were you never able to even freely move to do that? Try a play through once more and see if you get stuck on same place. I tested it out for me after dowloading from mediafire and was able to move past that part...

Oops you were right about the flames. Though I was no longer able to move in this part, where he said I should head for the entrance, other wise the game is good it took 20 minutes to get to where I was stuck.

Did you ever find the save point near the beginning when you first start the game? If you keep heading south in beginning instead of going east you will find the save point. Just south of that is the entrance. So, it appears you must have beaten that ninja. How many tries did it take you? He could be challenging at times.

EDIT: I just played through and was able to get back to the entrance. There are checks put in so that if you try to head anywhere else but south the game will prevent you from heading in that direction.

I got stuck at one of the checks, and it took me two tries.

Alright, let me know if you have any better luck with it. I didn't get stuck at all for some reason. I do not understand why I do not run into any
of these problems you run into even when I go out of my way to try to walk in those directions which will not let me. Try it again to see if you
get the same results.

I just thought of something. Whatever direction your facing it will automatically send you in the reverse direction. There is a possibility if you face from the north or south it
will keep pushing you in the opposite direction until you hit the wall. THat may be what the problem is. Let me see if I can fix that for you.

I was facing North.

Here is the new link: Download this one and overwrite folder where you installed game last. Then test it out.

Link: http://www.mediafire.com/file/6au301hpu59ycyw/Eternal%20Star%20Mystic%20Path%20Demo%20V1.0.rar

Alright, soon there will be an update to the demo, which will include some extra backstory on Luke Ikaris. I will give this hint away to come across the extra story.
Once you have Luke Ikaris join your party re-visit the Forgotten Temple Ruins assuming you have been there once already. If not, try to look west of Cyberias city. If you are able to beat the Yamas District guard, which should be easy with Luke on your team, you will get to see an event unfold between Luke and Captain Sterling. Btw, try to last at least last 5 rounds against her to get an achievement. Btw, if you can last 5 rounds against her without Luke in your party then you are awesome. I do not foresee anyone actually defeating her though. I will keep you posted when I update the demo. Hope you have enjoyed the demo so far One last note, if you actually go through with this optional event, you will get a character later in the game that you may not have otherwise have gotten.

I've been busy but I will check it out today.

Alright, sounds good to me. I probably won't be done with the addon for Luke's backstory until this weekend. It should not matter how far you are in game to apply the latest demo with addon because it wouldn't be available until Luke joins you which is near the end of the demo. All you have to do is overwrite the game files wherever you end up saving it on your computer once I release the newest demo version.

Okay, version 1.1 is out for the demo. The addon has been completed and if you want to see more backstory of Luke Ikaris just head to the Forgotten Temple Ruins after he joins your party.
 I welcome any and all feedback.
 
Here is the link: http://www.mediafire.com/file/amscosofosmc048/Eternal%20Star%20Mystic%20Path%20Demo%20V1.1.rar

The next anticipated release of the demo will be version 1.5. The story will have progressed to the slum city of Demar and more features will be implemented for gameplay.

*UPDATE*: After a whole year has passed since the game demo's official release, I am proud to present to you version 1.5. There are many new things added to the new version aside from more storyline. You will now be able to choose missions from the Organization Branch. There are many various categories of missions to take up to 10 different types and each category varies in itself. There is now also a Member Ranking List that will show you your current rank compared to the rest of those within the Organization. Four new locations were added since my last update and at least two more new characters make their appearance. Also, the new trap chests system has been implemented as well for those who love booby traps. You have a chance to avoid the traps or take less damage depending on your defense or magic defense and evasion and agility. Also, for the missions if you do not complete them in enough time like say if the story progresses then you would miss your chance to succeed and may end up failing a mission. I am proud to announce the
new skill upgrade system that is used in conjunction with mastering skills. In other words, you must use a certain skill a certain number of times to master it and then you can upgrade that to its next level.

All in all, I hope you enjoy the latest update and feel free to let me know what you think of the latest changes. I look forward to the responses, so let me hear them.

Here is the link to the game: Eternal Star Vol 1: Mystic Path Version 1.5

I apologize to those who have already downloaded the game with the single executable. I found out that executable does not store its save files externally so you could not quit the game and come back in to load your game. I have the new link here for the updated game: Eternal Star: Mystic Path Version 1.5