All right, I went and read through the page again. Just a few comments.
Art Shift: Some areas, particularly outdoors, have prerendered 3D backgrounds which are rather primitive by today's standards, while others, particularly indoors, use Super Nintendo style tilesets.
Well if you want to go that route, ALL the graphics are primitive by today's standards. That's simply the technical limitation of the program.
Crapsack World: The Purpose is there simply to control people, while the Lord Below actually exists, one of the only large cities, Estrana, is full of poverty and crime, and the world is made up of crazy religious fanatics (The Guided) and tools (Blood Lyn.) So yeah.
It seems IMPLIED there's no purpose. This was worded correctly in another trope entry ("Devil But No God"), not sure where the inconsistency comes from.
Crowning Moment Of Awesome: Traziun killing a fortress full of Blood Lyn, anyone? Also, the game is one for Lun. He created a game that many consider better than mainstream, professional games... with RPG Maker 2000, a rudimentary game-maker for beginners. Complete with complex animations that people (like me) who have fiddled with RPG Maker can tell you are very hard to pull off.
This is kind of nitpicking, but it's my understanding you're supposed to avoid first-person pronouns in main trope entries. I know there was some sort of push to have the phrase "this troper thinks..." removed from main entries, kind of thought the same thing applied here.
Crowning Music Of Awesome: Many of the songs, while taken from other works, are used well, including the first-level music from Castlevania being the random battle theme. Of note is the song End of The Way. It can be heard here, starting at around 7:13. Some spoilers in the video. And the song is original, I think.
Why yes, End of The Way is original, which you could've known by looking at the
Music Tracking Topic on the official
Crestfallen Studios Forums. Or by... watching the opening credits at the beginning of Episode 3 and beyond, I think.
Fridge Logic: If settling down is uncommon behavior for Wayfarers, and most "settlements" consist of a few small buildings for living space, where do all the manufactured goods on The Way come from? Clothes, weapons, furniture, books...
So? Clearly some settlements last long enough to produce these materials. And it's not like some of these things can't be made while wandering. One other possible explanation is that people often find things left from previous cycles of people wandering The Way and assume that the "forerunners" are leaving them behind.
Informed Attractiveness: Any character who is supposed to be attractive, considering the RPG Maker graphics engine.
Well yeah, that's kind of implicit with the 16-bit style graphics. I guess this is still technically correct, but I never recall seeing this for any other old-school console RPG pages. Plus there's always facesets and Rangi's artwork to go by...
Re Traux: The game uses Super Nintendo style graphics and MIDI music.
I think it's hard to call it this when really it's just the technical limitations of RPG Maker 2000.
Theme Naming: Subverted. The chapter names all rhyme with the previous one...except for the last, "Truth Hides Nothing".
Not quite subverted, see
here for more information.
Your Mileage May Vary: You either think it's a great game with an impressive storyline or a pretentious mess with horribly-balanced gameplay.
Wow. Seriously? We're really going there? YMMV is the panacea, the fucking crutch that stops TVtropes from erupting into a perpetual flame war. And people KNOW this. You know what? I'm calling bullshit. Your mileage may vary? OF COURSE Your Mileage May Vary. People have opinions. This is a well known fact. People have opinions on everything. You could put this on pretty much every fucking page for a show or game (probably not far from the truth). No, what YMMV REALLY means is "I want to express my tedious, unnecessary, token dissent on a topic without having to answer for it by using my magic four-letter shield".
What strikes me as particularly funny is the wording in this particular entry. It doesn't mean enough to me to actually look at the edit history, but it seriously fucking looks like someone came along, wanting to show the world that there is one person who thinks The Way is "pretentious mess with horribly-balanced gameplay" stuck their token opinion in there, and someone else wanting to make sure they got the last word and to make sure the "integrity" of The Way is left intact made sure to respond point for point. Because let's face it, for the main entries TVtropes has been, and will almost always be about
Gushing About Shows You Like. It's the same reason people invented the wikipedia game where you try and find an article about some banal and esoteric gaming topic longer than some important historical one. The people most likely to be editing are tech-savvy younger folk who are more likely to be exposed to, and interested in gaming topics. And since these people realize that gushing incessantly to people in real life about a show they like will almost certainly have negative consequences, they use that sweet, sweet anonymous veil to take their fanwankery to the Internet. I dunno, it's entirely realistic that one person was just being nice enough to show both sides of the issue, but I've seen the same thing happen on other pages for freeware games with unerring frequency. Seriously, if you don't like the game... good for you. Nobody cares.
Even more bizarre with this particular entry is the utter overkill. YMMV is used 8 times (none of which are linked) outside of the main entry. I know in the strictest sense it means "you may have differing opinions" on a topic, but let's face it, there's a particular notion of like and dislike it carries.
Villain Protagonist: Rhue after Episode 4. YMMV.
The context in which YMMV is used in places like this doesn't exactly work. If you want a better phrase, I'll give it to you: "depending on your interpretation". At least with that there's an element of logic in creating an interpretation (which there really should be), rather than some simple opinion.
All right, that was long and I don't apologize for it. I may still yet actually register and do some editing, if for no other reason than the page description gets more and more woefully inadequate every time I see it.
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