Tales of Revelia: JRPG-styled Fantasy Webcomic - Page 3

Ninjaman · 05-05-2011, 08:53 AM

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You mean the Riddly reptile that you are.

I assume you are a kobold in a Riddler suit.

Or do you?

Teutonic Knight · 05-06-2011, 11:06 PM

New comic. Now I can add new banners and later a status page for the main characters, with really bad original sketches!

And there's plot exposition. Next, more exposition.

Ninjaman · 05-07-2011, 01:43 AM

Yay, new one. I like it, love how the old dude is falling asleep at the end.

super dark33 · 05-07-2011, 05:39 AM

New banner, and new comic, you should make the first banner's spear with blood, i think it will be more funny.

Comet · 05-07-2011, 05:48 AM

At last we're getting our first proof that this is JRPG-style beyond the opening page. Pulse Knight, Surge Knight and Wave Knight are exactly the sort of thing I came here to see. And Aria's armour looks really cool and JRPG-y, too.

Cool stuff, can't wait for more.

BeethroBudkin07 · 05-07-2011, 12:05 PM

I must compliment your art style. It's as if Giant himself had drawn this! Beyond that, the story's pretty nice as well. Can't wait to see what happens next.

Keep it up!

SamBurke · 05-07-2011, 05:03 PM

Question: should that be "How do you know my nameS" or "How do you know my name" in the first panel?

Otherwise, very good.

Teutonic Knight · 05-07-2011, 05:26 PM

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Originally Posted by SamBurke

Question: should that be "How do you know my nameS" or "How do you know my name" in the first panel?

Otherwise, very good.

Names. Aria called him Uncle Medalta and King Bellandy.

@^Comet: just so you know, they aren't really classes but more like titles. Is that what you meant?

Mr_Saturn · 05-07-2011, 11:07 PM

oOoo, props for starting a webcomic. It looks very nice art-wise. I hope you can keep it up. The art is much better than the webcomic i started way back ago. Haha.

Question: Is it meant to fit in a comedy genre or a more action driven genre?

Teutonic Knight · 05-08-2011, 12:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Mr_Saturn

Question: Is it meant to fit in a comedy genre or a more action driven genre?

I meant it to be a parody of JRPGs, similar to how OotS parodies Dnd, so that kind of comedy, lots of lampshading. But at the same time I wanted it to feel like a video game, so action sequences, fights, video game mechanics, characters talking out of panel a lot as if they had voice actors...other than that pretty much like OotS.

Mr_Saturn · 05-08-2011, 12:57 AM

The reason why I asked was because the comic is off to a slow start in terms of comedy. But the realm of JRPG's has a lot of material to work off from. I hope for great things in the future, you've already got a solid foundations.

Comet · 05-08-2011, 05:49 AM

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@^Comet: just so you know, they aren't really classes but more like titles. Is that what you meant?

Absolutely. Exactly the sorts of larger than life titles that would fit the personal knights of a king in a JRPG, too.

The Succubus · 05-08-2011, 07:45 AM

Mmmm, looking forward to finding out what these different knights are like in battle.

super dark33 · 05-08-2011, 10:49 AM

Well, the pulse knight seems to be lightning based, wave knight is water, but i have no idea what surge knight is.

averagejoe · 05-08-2011, 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by super dark33

Well, the pulse knight seems to be lightning based, wave knight is water, but i have no idea what surge knight is.

I think it's the surge knight who's lightning based.

Comet · 05-08-2011, 11:24 AM

I took Pulse, Surge and Wave all to be basically just synonymous with Badass. As said, they're titles and as such I took them to be more of an abstract thing.

And hey, they do sound hella badass. So there's that.

super dark33 · 05-09-2011, 09:03 AM

Its a JRPG parody, they must be five/four elements knights, and we have three.

HalfTangible · 05-09-2011, 09:54 AM

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Its a JRPG parody, they must be five/four elements knights, and we have three.

And at least one must turn evil at some point in the campaign!

Gray Mage · 05-09-2011, 10:03 AM

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Its a JRPG parody, they must be five/four elements knights, and we have three.

Are they even supposed to be based on elements? At least I haven't seen anything that suggests it.

Comet · 05-09-2011, 11:47 AM

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Are they even supposed to be based on elements? At least I haven't seen anything that suggests it.

Me neither. And the Japanese don't know what fancy English words mean so seeing an actual connection between the form of a word and its meaning is going to be a slim chance at best. Okay, that isn't quite as true as some would think but it is still a possibility, right?

And, to top it all off, pulse can just as well lead us to the heart, which means that that particular knight fights with the power of love.
Wave is, well a wave. So an unstoppable fighting force. Or a surfer dude.
And surge... Actually, I'm drawing a blank on what connection to make there. A sudden rise in power at a time of crisis? Maybe.

Real men don't need no fancy elemental powers. The figurative burning splendor of their courageous souls is more than enough.

HalfTangible · 05-09-2011, 12:57 PM

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Me neither. And the Japanese don't know what fancy English words mean so seeing an actual connection between the form of a word and its meaning is going to be a slim chance at best. Okay, that isn't quite as true as some would think but it is still a possibility, right?

And, to top it all off, pulse can just as well lead us to the heart, which means that that particular knight fights with the power of love.
Wave is, well a wave. So an unstoppable fighting force. Or a surfer dude.
And surge... Actually, I'm drawing a blank on what connection to make there. A sudden rise in power at a time of crisis? Maybe.

Real men don't need no fancy elemental powers. The figurative burning splendor of their courageous souls is more than enough.

Surge and pulse could both refer to lightning or just plain light, for the record

Comet · 05-09-2011, 01:37 PM

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Surge and pulse could both refer to lightning or just plain light, for the record

For sure, but I still maintain that the surging and pulsing of the heart and the human soul is a more awesome and relevant force than lightning or light or anything else the universe can throw at you.

And I do reckon that the majority of fighting boy anime and games agree with me, even if all of them don't have the confidence to present their power of love, friendship and determination without a coat of special effects and light shows on top

HalfTangible · 05-09-2011, 02:39 PM

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For sure, but I still maintain that the surging and pulsing of the heart and the human soul is a more awesome and relevant force than lightning or light or anything else the universe can throw at you.

And I do reckon that the majority of fighting boy anime and games agree with me, even if all of them don't have the confidence to present their power of love, friendship and determination without a coat of special effects and light shows on top

Aside from captain planet, i don't know any characters that actually had it as part of their name/title, though

Comet · 05-09-2011, 04:03 PM

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Aside from captain planet, i don't know any characters that actually had it as part of their name/title, though

The King of Hearts, Domon Kasshu comes to mind. From G Gundam, which should be a familiar example of youthful fighting spirit that actually made itself known outside of Japan. There should be other examples, but I'm drawing a blank atm. Plenty of names with burning or blaze or some such indication of hot blood without literal fire in anime and JRPGs, though, which falls into the same category as what we've been discussing.

Not a huge deal, in any case. I just think the Japanese tendency to take words like Pulse and slap it on anything even remotely compatible because it sounds cool is a wondrous tradition. Who needs semantics when you have big, exotic words to use.

Teutonic Knight · 05-09-2011, 07:05 PM

Lucky for you then I know English, location California, and am not going to just slap on whatever names I think sound cool unless I have a good reason to to.

And to add to the conversation, I will say that elements were not taken into account in choosing their titles. This is supposed to be a parody. Part of the parody is realizing what the Japanese did to their games.

Teutonic Knight · 05-11-2011, 06:57 PM

Argh. I can't wait anymore for someone to post so that I didn't have to double-post even though it's ok for webcomic threads.

The reason: New comic is up.

The hook is given, and the conflict appears.

And that was some bad word in speech bubbling that I did there in panel 3. I'm still trying to perfect this.

HalfTangible · 05-11-2011, 06:59 PM

On the names: I expect at least one "But that name makes no sense!" somewhere in this story

*goes to read comic*

Ninjaman · 05-12-2011, 08:58 AM

Yay crusaders i hate those.

Elder Tsofu · 05-12-2011, 12:22 PM

Nice hood there in the last panel.

super dark33 · 05-12-2011, 01:14 PM

Hoorey! moar plot!