Review for RPG Maker MV. Game for Linux, PC, Mac, PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch, the video game was released on 23/10/2015 The version for Nintendo Switch came out on 11/09/2020 The version for PlayStation 4 came out on 11/09/2020
Among the dreams of role-playing gamers, it is omnipresent to create their own videogame, revitalized by the story born from their own fantasies, by the most incredible characters who travel through their mind, by the classic or the strangest mechanics. Since the early 90s, on PC, this dream comes true thanks to the RPG Maker series, which allows using various tools to create your own role-playing game by deciding practically everything: maps, events, characters, monsters, statistics, equipment. Everything is decided by us. What we are forced to stick to are just a few factors, such as the graphics sector and the sprites of characters and layers, which however are updated with many add-ons in each version of the program.
We already talked, about 3 years ago, about the version of RPG Maker for Nintendo 3DS called RPG Maker Fes. However, on 9 September 2020 the brand new version of the most loved RPG editor of all time was released for PC, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4, this time with the name of RPG Maker MV.
Given the fact that on PC things have always been similar to each other since the 90s, with graphical updates and some improvements between one version and another, in this case we were asked to test a version for consoles, and in particularly the one for Playstation 4. Unlike Fes, where from the beginning we were catapulted into a dark realm of codes and possibilities without knowing where to put our hands, an interesting tutorial has been implemented in RPG Maker MV, where the great King Nis will explain the main functions of RPG Maker MV in a quite satisfactory way. Together with him we will learn how to create a map, to place pngs and choose their movements and dialogues, to choose the points where our character teleports from one map to another, and also to decide the power and statistics of the monsters that we will meet on the world map.
Of course he will not give us a detailed explanation of every single option of the program, otherwise it would be a tutorial for tens of hours. However, we will be given a general smattering of how it works to allow us to start our work in a peaceful way and do not feel like we are completely left to ourselves. All the other options present can still be learned through a trial and error and tests dictated by pure curiosity.
In any case, trying your hand at RPG Maker MV is anything but simple and automatic. Every single detail is chosen and invented by us, and this necessarily involves thehave a pretty clear idea in mind about the game you want to create. Finding yourself a completely white table in front of you when we don't have the slightest idea of what we want to create can be the fatal moment to abandon everything. RPG Maker MV is instead the ideal tool for those who know what they want, perhaps having previously created maps, events and characters on paper and pen and then recreating them faithfully on the screen.
RPG Maker MV is not only the perfect editor to create your own RPG, but it also gives you the possibility to upload your own artwork online and allow everyone else to play it, increasing one's sense of satisfaction by a lot. Unfortunately, games created on the PS4 version cannot be played on Switch or PC and vice versa.
We come to the negative side of the work, a negative side which unfortunately throws our evaluation into a bottomless abyss. Programming a game on PS4 is an inconvenience never seen before: our every decision will have to be made by moving through the menus with the joypad, and each dialogue and command line to be written require the input from the virtual keyboard by choosing the letters individually with the pad. This makes each step tedious, but above all tens of times longer than using a mouse and keyboard on a PC.
Nowadays there is practically no one who does not own a PC, whether it is old or poorly performing, and the PS4 version does not have any kind of additional content compared to the computer counterpart, which does not require advanced features to run.
RPG Maker MV is the ideal tool to give life to your creation, but our advice is to abandon the idea of using a console and rather buy the PC version, which moreover has dozens of additional packs available instead on Playstation and Switch.
► RPG Maker MV is an RPG-Simulation game developed by Kadokawa Games and published by Degica NIS America for Linux, PC, Mac, PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch, the game was released on 23/10/2015 The version for Nintendo Switch came out on 11/09/2020 The version for PlayStation 4 came out on 11/09/2020
