Forever's End

In development since 2008, NicoB's freeware RPG Forever's End at first appears to be nothing more than a standard Eastern RPG. Most of the story revolves around the power-hungry King Richard, his sinister advisor Marcellus, and the the blue-haired protagonist Epoch. After resigning from his position as Captain of the Dragon Knights and being labeled a traitor by his countrymen, Epoch must find a way to stop King Richard from collecting the six legendary crystals and ruling the world.

For those of you who haven't noticed, this is essentially Final Fantasy IV in a nutshell. Good news is that it plays a lot better than it sounds. After the first hour or so, the RPG tropes begin to settle down, and Forever's End becomes more its own beast. In addition, the game offers players plenty of custom systems, plot twists, original artwork, and catchy tunes to keep any RPG fan hooked for hours.

You can download the game here.

This game provides examples of:

 * Abusive Precursors: Funny enough they are called the precursor, and boy did they screw things up.
 * Actually Four Mooks: Monsters appear as black spirits.
 * Adam Smith Hates Your Guts
 * An Adventurer Is You: Each character is given a class based on their abilities and occupation.
 * An Economy Is You: Coincidentally, all shops seem to be equipped with just the right kind of weapons for the characters currently in your party...
 * Arbitrary Gun Power: Ziggy and Claude's weaponry.
 * Arbitrary Headcount Limit: Only allowed four people in battle at once.
 * Lazy Backup
 * Ate His Gun:
 * Bag of Sharing: Your inventory is swapped between characters split over continents, characters who haven't met each other yet, characters who are centuries in the past being accessed through dreams...
 * Battle Theme Music
 * BGM Override: Occurs at many points, such as the invasion of Levantia at the beginning of the game.
 * Black and White Magic: Most heraldry magic.
 * Character Level
 * Complete Monster: Bijir and Hyuga. Bijir makes People Puppets out of anyone, and likes his work when orders are kill everyone. Hyuga backstabs anyone for fame/fortune even willing to try to kill
 * Convenient Questing
 * Curb Stomp Battle:
 * Critical Hit
 * Defend Command
 * Disc One Final Dungeon:.
 * Drunken Master: Cyrus, who can gain additional stances and powers by drinking different types of booze
 * Elemental Rock Paper Scissors: Everyone has a strength or weakness, your going to exploit it alot.
 * Enemy Mine: Slade, the demon hunter and Epoch are forced to team up for the same goal but different reasons.
 * Everyone Meets Everyone.
 * And Putting the Band Back Together.
 * Experience Points.
 * Tech Points: Ability points (AP) used to learn heraldry spells.
 * Fight Woosh
 * Generation Xerox:
 * Get On the Boat: Epoch heading off on his first mission. Also, the train used by Goldo and Lee to cross the ocean.
 * Gotta Catch Them All: Monster capturing, not only does it help give you good items if you capture them all in a region. But also each capture counts as a kill so it makes your work load easier. Basically capturing is feed them their favorite food, throw capture crystal, ???, profit.
 * Guest Star Party Member:
 * Guns Are Worthless: For some reason, Claude's rifle is considerably weaker than everyone's standard sword and dagger.
 * Heroes Prefer Swords: Epoch wields a sword.
 * Hit Points
 * Hyperspace Arsenal
 * Improbable Power Discrepancy
 * Inexplicable Treasure Chests
 * Informed Equipment
 * Inn Security:
 * Irrelevant Sidequest: Monster catching.
 * Item Crafting: Goldo's Bag system require him to mix together multiple items to make new skills.
 * Just Add Water: Get the items. Click on the recipe. Presto!
 * Its All About Me: Hyuga basically boils down to i'll do anything to reach the top. ANYTHING.
 * It Was All Just a Dream: Epoch's dreams about the Crusaders.
 * Or Was It a Dream?:
 * Job System: Cyrus has the ability to change his class at any time, both in and out of battle.
 * Jumped At the Call: Epoch decides he must be the one to save his whole kingdom from Richard's insanity! Thankfully, he runs into about eight other people willing to help out.
 * Err not quite jumped, but was nudge in this direction
 * Justified Tutorial: Dr. Farnstein's explanation of the monster catching system. Elise's explanation about heraldry magic.
 * Kid Hero: Lee during his arc of the game.
 * Kleptomaniac Hero: Chests, vases, barrels, rocks...there are items everywhere!
 * Legions of Hell: The lost fit this somewhat considering how that reduced the mighty crusader armies from thousands to 4.
 * Let's Split Up Gang:
 * Let's Get Dangerous: Cyrus is reckless drunken idiot who when motivated will kick your ass no matter who you are. And bonus points for booze acutally powering him up.
 * Level Grinding
 * Mass Monster Slaughter Sidequest: Kill all the monsters in an area, win a stat upgrade!
 * Money Spider: These monsters are loaded.
 * Monster Allies: Captured monsters can fight alongside party members in battle.
 * No Hero Discount: Epoch and co. can't catch a break.
 * Nominal Importance: All you need to know is that he's a man who doesn't mind chatting it up with complete strangers.
 * No Experience Points for Medic
 * No Stat Atrophy
 * Party in My Pocket
 * Person of Mass Destruction: A few..Hooded Man, Marcellus,...
 * Plunder: Encounter enemy, kill enemy, ????, profit.
 * Power Equals Rarity
 * Preexisting Encounters: Enemies can be seen chasing you on the map.
 * Rat Stomp: Sewer rats.
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old: Both the Precursors, and one of the Crystal holders.
 * Your forgetting
 * Required Party Member
 * Resources Management Gameplay
 * Rose Haired Girl
 * And bonus points for having a blue-haired male lead.
 * Save Point: Called "Memory Pool."
 * The Six Stats: HP, MP, Attack, Defense, Agility, Magic. Yep, that's six.
 * Standard RPG Items: But it's called "Extract" instead of "Potion." That makes it completely different!
 * Standard Status Effects
 * Starter Equipment: If this is the only weapon of its type in existence, why is it so much weaker than weapons I can buy at any shop in the world?
 * Statistically Speaking
 * Super Powered Evil Side: Cmon you knew
 * Summon Magic: Turns out
 * Take Your Time
 * Talk to Everyone
 * A Taste of Power:
 * There Are No Tents
 * Time Travel: Lynorr Mansion
 * Took a Shortcut:
 * Trauma Inn
 * Twenty Four Hour Armor
 * Unhand Them Villain: When the Black Demon is holding Hyuuga over a cliff, Epoch asks that he let him go. The demon obliges.
 * Universal Poison
 * Wallet of Holding
 * We Buy Anything
 * Welcome to Corneria
 * Whip It Good:
 * You All Look Familiar
 * World Map