Luke Watcholz' 'The Way' series is, in my opinion, not only the best RPG Maker game, but one of the best RPGs out there, period. And I played a lot of the SNES classics a teenager.
The world of the way is not a sphere or a disk, but a singular path. All humans are nomadic wanderers who travel the Way, though some choose to settle down and build towns and cities; however, the 'rolling mists' eventually come crashing down on stragglers. The protagonist, Rhue, at first appears to fit some standard RPG tropes (he has amnesia and is looking for his lost girlfriend), but as the series progresses, more and more layers of mysteries are revealed.
I think the fact the game was mostly created by one guy gives the story a creative coherence you don't quite find even in FFVI or Chrono Trigger.
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The world of the way is not a sphere or a disk, but a singular path. All humans are nomadic wanderers who travel the Way, though some choose to settle down and build towns and cities; however, the 'rolling mists' eventually come crashing down on stragglers. The protagonist, Rhue, at first appears to fit some standard RPG tropes (he has amnesia and is looking for his lost girlfriend), but as the series progresses, more and more layers of mysteries are revealed.
I think the fact the game was mostly created by one guy gives the story a creative coherence you don't quite find even in FFVI or Chrono Trigger.