Llewl and the Lyre of Two Worlds
A downloadable game for Windows
The Short Summary:
Llewl is a classic JRPG heavily influenced by Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest and the greats of the late nineties and early noughties.
Join Sarah, a trainee Guardian from the village of Snowton as she journeys to save her partner Llewl in an epic journey across a vast and colourful world.
The Long Summary:
Its long been rumoured of elf girls disappearing, why? No one knows, by whom? No one knows but one thing is clear, in the tiny village of Snowton in the Northern Continent, an elderly Guardian simply known as Grampa has raised his young apprentice Sarah with one goal and on goal only. Protect the elf girl Llewl at all costs.
As we enter the game a teenage Sarah who feels woefully underprepared for her role, shares a home with Llewl and Grampa. With trouble on the horizon, Llewl is an all action JRPG that does its best to make everyone feel welcome in a fun world than leans heavily towards inclusivity and diversity.
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Llewl is a project that started out as a writing lesson in diversity for me along with some youtube tutorials I was creating on how to use RPG Maker, I kind of fell for the characters, light natured classic jrpg feel and the fact I was essentially writing a love story and here we are.
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Estimated Demo Length: 30 Minutes
Demo Release Date: Friday, July 22nd 2024
Follow Llewl on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/oathgames/llewl
Download
Install instructions
Download -> Unzip -> Open Folder -> Click on Llewl.exe
Development log
- Minor tweaks and fixes.Aug 10, 2024
- Hot Fix for jumping during events bug.Jul 24, 2024
- 2nd Public Demo Available - Update v0.1.31Jul 22, 2024
- Llewl Demo 0.1.2.3 - Its got a lot of fixes!Sep 27, 2023
- 0.1.2.2 - Bug Fixes.Sep 14, 2023
- Llewl Demo 0.1.2 - Its finally here!Sep 12, 2023
- Meet the Characters - SarahJul 18, 2023
- Kickstarter Pre-Launch and Development UpdateJun 11, 2023
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After downloading this game and playing it i thought i really will create an account here so i can give my honest thoughts and maybe ideas that could be placed in this game... im no native english speaker so i still i hope everything is understandable...
i will start with the things i did not like and will provide afterwards things i do like.
1. The story of the "girl" that is chosen doesnt get me tbh. i would have believed it more if it would have been like dragon quest where only the ones with the symbol marked by light for example would be able to defend the last "elf" on earth the ritual was made from the elf due to the pressure of the devils. in the beginning of the game i would have hoped to be able to choose boy or girl and the story of the girl or boy would be similiar like "dragon quest 11 Echoes of an Elusive Age" that would be very nice and i would have been catched more. The story would have been also more interesting if it would not be only elf vs devils like thats how it feels tbh. but if it would be more of a civilisation where elves are seen as "mako" people that are the only ones that can extract the live essence of the earth to create Weapons or soldiers or whatever... i have a lot of ideas of a full story that would be inspired of final fantasy 7 and dragon quest 11 which would be impactful.
2. the names of the characters would be nice to have like funny and catchy names. "grandpa" doesnt really show a lot of thoughts into it.
3. The movement sometimes feel a little bit to slippery. feels like sliding on the ground and sometimes it feels like on a swamp. needs to be adjusted.
Good things.
i like the battle system even though i think it needs still work it is something super NEW! which i really appriciate. the downside though is that it felt to ez... i could heal all the time without having pressure of loosing my shield or somethig. just heal and heal and i like to be able to attack as long i have the green points but sometimes it feels redundant to use another character if the one character does the most damage and the other doesnt make any impact in that fight... it feels in some fights i can just fight with one character while the other is just standing there. so thats why i said refining would be needed but it has huge potential.
overall i dont know how strong the person in charge regarding the graphic is... i imagine the graphic as it is is fine! very 1995 i would love and most probably this game would sell close to a million if the graphics would lean into the graphics like octopath traveler. definitly will watch it on kickstarter but as i said lots of potential... i am just a bit scared the developer will not go full potential.
props anyway to the demo so people can see what you cooking.
Best Regards
I'm really enjoying the demo so far, just wanted to point out before I forget that I can't seem to jump from bridges to land, I have to walk. I can jump onto bridges, but it doesn't work the other way around. I think I only even noticed, though, because there's a bridge RIGHT after the game teaches you how to jump.
Edit* it looks like it's just that one bridge that I can't jump off the ends of.
Cheers I’ll fix that asap, I may have made a mistake if its working backwards. You can’t jump off the bridge to the lower level or off a bridge to land on the same level? Either way quite a big bug I need to squash.
I could jump off the side of the bridge no problem, just not to get from the bridge to the land on the same level. I wasn't stuck or anything, though, I could still walk off the bridge just fine
Ah I know exactly whats causing that, I’ll patch it asap. Thanks for the heads up dude, really appreciate it.
Works pretty well for a prototype! Looking forward to more :) my only true gripe is that anti-aliasing on a pixel font makes it hard to read. My favourite things so far are the skill animations!
Just a few notes on the music: it's catchy and when the battle theme drops it drops HARD, but I think most instrument samples are a bit harsh. Still, the foundation is solid, and I found myself so into the boss theme I got kind of sad when I won the fight...
P.S. The snowball mini-game could be more accessible if you could throw snowballs continuously by holding the action button instead of pressing once for every throw
Thanks a mill for the feedback, really appreciate it, I've already changed the font for the next update.
Yeah I think the bass is way too low in the regular battle theme and kills the excitement, I'll remix that for sure asap. I'll play around with some filters and maybe less compression on the instruments.
Good idea on the snowball minigame, I'll look into it, think I can just throw my current function in a loop and it should fire continuously.
I love to receive feedback like this as it gives me lots of stuff to work on. Really appreciate it and thanks for playing.
Hey I liked the concept demo and think it has potential. Would love to see a more fleshed out version. Good job!
One thing I noticed was after talking with Grampa my laptop started getting quite hot until the end of the demo. Somethings could maybe be optimized more.
I'll look into making a less performance intense mode, thanks for giving it a blast dude.
Awesome !
Thank you sir, appreciate the kind words.
Hi :)
My computer is too weak, it takes forever to load the game but I still waited for it to give a try.
beautiful pixel art for characters and everything else ❤️
Hi thanks for playing and sticking it out, looks like lots of people are getting loading problems on boot (slow loading) I'll add it to my list of bugs and make it a priority to get it fixed.
hey, it's seems the game just freeze when I open it.
running on Windows 11 64 bit the game just freeze.
When I am opening the game it's only black window. no bgm no whatsoever.
Already try run as administrator, already try compatibility to Win 8 and Win 7 nothing happen.
PC specs if needed.
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9700K 3.60GHz
Memory Ram: 24GB Ram
GPU: AMD(R) Radeon RX580
GPU Vram: 8GB VRAM
OS: Windows 11 21H2
Driver version Latest
Ah poop, sorry about that. It was Enigma Virtual Box which I used to protect assets, I made a quick fix and removed it, should work now if you wanna try again.
alright gonna try it again.