RPG Maker Fes

RPG Maker Fes is quite an achievement; it’s a powerful, relatively easy to use set of tools that can turn your story ideas into full blown games, playable by anyone with a 3DS and an internet connection.

RPG Maker Fes got on my nerves at times, but I was still completely enamored by it. The touch screen controls work perfectly and the game even has a predictive keyboard to help as you're typing up dialogue. Between being able to make your RPG in chunks on the go and having such a wonderfully user-friendly UI, Fes makes the creation process easy—it's the process of executing these creations that it doesn't make simple. If you're prepared to dedicate yourself to your RPG and have the patience to learn Fes's intimidating mechanics, you'll find that it's a fun piece of software that will help you bring your creations to life.

Probably the best possible implementation of the RPG maker for the extremly closed 3DS environment. A good editor, despite its limitations.

RPG Maker Fes does what it needs to do. That is to make sure everyone can build a RPG easily. But the game is limited in what it offers. Moreover, there should have been some explanation of what everything does.

The first portable RPG Maker title is finally available in Europe. An extensive tool for RPG fans with plenty of time and imagination to share.

While RPG Maker Fes is not perfect, it is a fantastic leap into RPG game creation for newcomers. With its simplified toolset that does away with most of the programming features in order to allow for a streamlined system of creation, the simple act of building a world will still require patience and time. Fans of the series will find plenty to salivate over in this new game, and the thought of sharing their creations with users around the world, and in turn playing around in other created worlds, is what is going to give this game plenty of legs for many years. Though it does lack the ability to actually create original sprites and character or enemy portraits, it still provides enough presets to make some truly unique worlds and adventures. The only limitation is the creator's imagination.

While RPG Maker Fes is not the best at what it does, it certainly is very capable in doing a lot despite of its disadvantages. It also serves as a learning tool to give users interested in game design. There is great potential for user-created content in RPG Maker Fes, but similar to many user-driven games, the quality of the games are entirely at the hands of the community.

RPG Maker FES has a lot of potential, but it's bound to be (at least partially) wasted. There's no tutorial, and it's impossible to edit the predefined (and limited) assets; the UI is simple and accessible to everyone, but the PC version is much more complete.

If you're a complete newbie to RPG Maker, then I would not recommend this being your starting point. [Issue #29, p. 70]

It’s easy to list all of the ways in which RPG Maker Fes is limited in terms of scope, tools, available assets, and possibilities—but it’s also hard to deny how fun it can be when you’re crafting something within the parameters of those limitations. Those looking for a deep RPG creation program will be sorely disappointing, but for players looking for a first step in that idea, or those preferring to craft something a little less grandiose, this is still an exceptionally cool—and unexpected—release on our shores.

RPG Maker Fes is not a mediocre game, but an instrument that can show its true potential only to those who have a lot of time, infinite patience and inexhaustible dedication.

For the creators out there, RPG Maker Fes is a great little package with plenty of basic development tools to play with – a “My First RPG Maker”, if you will. For those who just want to play some quality RPG games, step away and play almost any other standalone RPG on the 3DS.

RPG Maker FES really wants you to make the games you want, but doesn’t want to help you out in any way.

Where the title could have opened up to a more heterogeneous audience, it chose to give up on any guides or tutorials, making learning much slower and tiring to the less experienced, in some ways even frustrating.

Despite an inevitably cramped interface, RPG Maker Fes is still a solid, yet demanding game creation software, all the more so without a proper - if not fun - tutorial. But neither portability nor simple online sharing system can make up for such restrictions concerning tools and content. These tend to limit, or even format the end results. Considering the time they require and the DLC policy, it would be wiser to invest in the massively more elaborate PC version.

RPG Maker FES fail to deliver a nice experience to beginners. Without a real tutorial, the game lacks of fundamental information to create something appealing, leaving the players bored and frustrated. It may give some satisfaction only to those who are already experienced with the series. ​

RPG Makers Fes fails at moving the PC version of the program to Nintendo 3DS. The lack of any tutorial, or information whatsoever, makes it really difficult to use. The small N3DS screen doesn't help at all.

RPG Maker comes to Nintendo 3DS with a dull version. The lack of tutorial may make this game too hard for the newcomers and the lack of content is too simple for the experts.

Though this fun piece of software does what it needs to do, the limitations of the 3DS’s abilities, the lack of direction and the painstaking work that is required makes RPG Maker Fes feel like a let-down.

This is, undeniably, the worst version of RPG Maker, which is, by itself, the best tool to create simple RPGs on PC. No tutorial, a lack of content and a high price hold this product back.