To preface this review, I feel horrible for docking a single point from this. It's a concept that has been hard to wrap my head around, that a game that looks and plays THIS well, never mind a game jam game, could have flaws that are worthy of mention. But alas, here we are. 

I'll start out by saying that, although I said all that about points just now, I could never in my right mind dock any points from this game's visual presentation or soundtrack. Those are just immaculate, and I deeply, deeply commend the team's effort on those particular aspects. However, as others have already mentioned, the text boxes have a cropping issue. And to that, I'll add a slight criticism of the game's inventory. Although, again, it looks BEAUTIFUL it isn't so intuitive at first glance. 

Then, we get to the gameplay. This is where I, to my abject despair, had to dock a single star off the rating. Although the game is, wow, a fully featured turn-based RPG game, it runs into the issues common to the genre: the ship section is populated with random encounters. Beautiful and immersive though it may be, trying to find your path from A to B while being assaulted by hordes of weak enemies can be a bit exhausting. And, of course, I think the game ends after the dragon fight, which did cut the experience short. Although, I must again realize that this is a game jam game, and one of this scale and magnitude. But, it is what it is.

Then, we have the story. I don't exactly know what's going on, but the characters are charismatic enough.
 
I have not enough praise for this game, and would not be surprised to see it among the top contenders. Absolutely, insanely good job!

Insane production value for a jam game. I cannot wrap my head around how you managed to pull this level of detail and stylization in a week's time. I'm assuming there's seven of you bc of the studio's name?

Aside from the text issue which was sorta dealt with when I installed the font (I say sorta bc text regularly seemed to be pushed offscreen), my biggest issue with the game is the battle system. I love traditional JRPGs, but I feel like you were pressed for time and what suffered most were the battles. Feedback feels wonky on both attacking and receiving attacks, and the game would be vastly improved with pokemon style attack animations (just like, dropping an animated vfx on top of a character). As it stands I have a hard time imagining how my characters attack and their particular specialties.

Again, presentation wise, it's impeccable. In my opinion the best game of the jam, graphically speaking. Music was very solid as well, but it seemed to suffer a bit in the gameplay area.

Congratulations on a fantastic entry :) 

The mode 7-looking graphics when you fly the ship are amazing. The spritework is amazing and especially the elf lady is super cute. Really nice turn-based game!

Wow, what a visually stunning game. The character art, still narrative sequences, and Secret of Mana-esque airship flying are full of life. I like that the turn order for each character can be selected by the player, and actions happen one at a time. Seems like a simple thing but so many classic RPGs are all about making all the decisions at once, and watching what unfolds. Well done!

I'd love to know what games are the inspiration here, I am not all that well versed in the genre but I'm curious what other titles influenced the design and art direction.

I had some problems reading the story, but the game is amazing, graphics and music are nice.

The music was awesome (especially the dungeon theme) The art was also very nice! My only complaints are in user experience. The window couldn’t be resized and was too big to fit on my screen and (as stated on the game page) the font needed to be downloaded. That was just a minor setback however since a link to download was provided!