A funny little game that accomplishes exactly what it sets out to do - parody Final Fantasy with a modern sense of humor.
I need more games like this in my life.
Fucking awesome
I wonder why it's called Franken
Very silly in an endearing rather than irritating way, a lot of the little jokes hit for me. It's incredibly quirky and most interested in making you laugh over the short runtime, while making fun of classic RPG conventions in a loving way. I enjoyed how all of the characters make an impression despite how breezy it all was, and pay off in a really fun way. It's also free, so I'd recommend.
The laugh to gameplay venn diagram for this game is a circle.
Someone please erase my memory so I can experience this for the first time again.
Someone please erase my memory so I can experience this for the first time again.
kino
A very short funny game.
P.S. To my fellow Linux users, the games controls bugged out on X11 but worked perfectly on Wayland.
P.S. To my fellow Linux users, the games controls bugged out on X11 but worked perfectly on Wayland.
funny fun game
bem engraçadinho
Un RPG que se juega en media hora lleno de comedia, es un puñado de chistes y son todos muy graciosos, creo que el final se alarga demasiado pero en general es una experiencia muy recomendable.
dude who dies in literally 10 seconds, I'll always remember you
franken
Was not necessarily laughing the whole way through and kinda got bored around the middle but the ending made up for it by tenfolds, most stories wish they ended like Franken.
LINDO
i like the 3 guy haha
Cleared the game on my laptop within 60-90 minutes, and completed everything that the game asked me to do.
I had a really good time with this. I thought the beginning part of it was awesome and it got less and less fun as it got to the end. The art was outstanding, however, and I enjoyed the music.
Franken is pretty amateurish and very stupid but... I dunno man, this one really got me. Initial impressions were that it was just going to be a series of 'lol so random!!!'-style jokes one after another, but... well, Franken isn't not that, but there is the bare minimum framework of a more sensible JRPG hiding in the back here, and it's just enough for the jokes to somehow constantly catch me off guard.
As funny as it is though (and I genuinely did find this one very funny, is my brain broken?), Franken really isn't much more than the sum of its humour. There's no real gameplay here per se. the aesthetics are pretty crude, etc etc...; but I think all that's fine? After all, Franken quite openly sets out to be a short shitpost of a game, and it achieves that goal marvellously. This is easily the best shitpost game that I've played, and I promise that's a compliment.
As funny as it is though (and I genuinely did find this one very funny, is my brain broken?), Franken really isn't much more than the sum of its humour. There's no real gameplay here per se. the aesthetics are pretty crude, etc etc...; but I think all that's fine? After all, Franken quite openly sets out to be a short shitpost of a game, and it achieves that goal marvellously. This is easily the best shitpost game that I've played, and I promise that's a compliment.
I actually forgot that the game was called franken until the end so that was a very effective reveal
I think there should be more gag encounters in the late game. Every enemy before the tower has some kind of joke associated with them but the later encounters don't have that for some reason. Missed opportunity in my opinion.
Good, funny, short game. If you have an hour to spare and own a computer, you should give it a go.
I think there should be more gag encounters in the late game. Every enemy before the tower has some kind of joke associated with them but the later encounters don't have that for some reason. Missed opportunity in my opinion.
Good, funny, short game. If you have an hour to spare and own a computer, you should give it a go.
Juego travieso de cojones ojala hicieran un RPG serio con este mismo estilo grafico que asiente las bases del genero
esta guay me faltaba mas sexo gay
again, stealing my original review from itch.io:
any game that allows you to platonically marry frakenstein is an automatic 5 stars, actually.
any game that allows you to platonically marry frakenstein is an automatic 5 stars, actually.
I played it BEFORE Dunkey, thank you very much.
Esto le pasó a un amigo mío (no respetó el cielo)
you know that copypaste of "I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to workless and I'm not kidding"? yeah is pretty [REDACTED] but this is really what people mean when they say that kind of thing. have to say, I agree!
funny but there's no replay value
Giving Franken a numbered score wouldn't be fair, since the game isn't even trying to be a proper game, but rather a playable parody that pokes fun at the gameplay and storytelling tropes of the turn-based RPG genre. It does a terrific job as such, with an hilarious little quest that it's sure to give you a couple of hours of light enjoyment.
Such a short and simple game, but extremely charming. Franken is an RPG that pokes fun at all the tropes RPGs have built up over the years but does so in a way that feels fresh and not as in your face as other meta-games. I also loved how fun and colorful all of the sprites were.
There were a handful of moments that really got me with how on the nose it was and that ending is just a masterpiece of video game writing. Despite how meta the writing was it really felt more like a love letter to old RPGs rather than it being a malicious critique of the genre. The game is so short and such a fun time that this is one of my strongest recommendations for a free game.
There were a handful of moments that really got me with how on the nose it was and that ending is just a masterpiece of video game writing. Despite how meta the writing was it really felt more like a love letter to old RPGs rather than it being a malicious critique of the genre. The game is so short and such a fun time that this is one of my strongest recommendations for a free game.
so, this is "franken"...?
huh?
(Just play it, its free and short!)
huh?
(Just play it, its free and short!)