Some impressions for
3 Stars of Destiny:
The story: You play a young man who almost immediately starts up a love-hate relationship with an elf girl who he catches bathing (complete with bikini sprite! Fanservice?) Together they win a trial to join an elite academy, then decide to ditch travelling there, because I don't know. The dialogue is so amateurish and riddled with spelling errors, I would have suggested the writer passed it to a classmate to check the work first. You also get saddled with a fire elemental who's written to sound somewhere between Jar-Jar Binks and Pikachu. I'd recommend killing it with fire, but somehow I doubt it would work.
The graphics: A combination of stock RPGmaker and bad Deviantart. Lots of objects have identical sprites, which can get confusing when you want to eat an apple that gives you 15HP, and end up eating an apple that increases HP by 1 permanently. Some "secret areas" are more obvious than others. It's fair to check out a tree with a hole in it as a secret area. A regular four-square island where nothing appears unusual? Not so much.
The sound: A few cool tunes here and there.
The gameplay: On the plus side, it's an old-school JRPG feel. Dungeons are long and you don't get to save anywhere you like - you use stationary bunnies as save points. Would have been nicer if there was a quicksave that lets you quit right away instead of looking for a bunny to quit, but oh well. Also on the plus side is that you can set the difficulty AND encounter rate. There are lots of equipment choices so you can create different builds for your characters. You can also get different types of elemental weapons. Only thing is you have to start doing trial and error to figure out what they're good against and what they're not. The game doesn't tell you, and there's no indication of whether it's super effective or not that effective apart from numbers.
I played it for about seven hours. I did a lot of accidental grinding in the previous area to find some quest items in a huge swamp. I get to the next area, and the first random encounter I get - one wolf - completely demolished my four-person party in two rounds. I am not ashamed to say I rage quit, because either that wolf was bugged, or the developers have no idea how to balance a game. No matter which it is, that's a pretty egregious error. I'm not sure if I'll return to this game.
The verdict: This game gets 3 Stars of Destiny...out of
10.