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Ever wanted to be a girl in PJ’s who has a talking dog, sarcastic cat and fights dragons made out of pirate ship flags in her dreams? Ah, then you too must know about…
Let’s get the dirty out of the way first. Sweet Lilly Dreams is a an RPG Maker game. SLD has custom-made art that sometimes looks like it came out of someone’s colored pencil art book. Yes it has… a talking dog with a flower and sends out red flags for furry po–…. –ocket… book. Sketches. After you accept all these things, it’s not too bad.
The game seems to feature an almost entirely original set of artwork, assets and sprite work. The tale would appear to be about a girl falling asleep and playing out her dreams. In Kingdom Hearts fashion, you get to choose a few stat-changing aspects of her attack and equipment by choosing an elemental attack and outfit for defense on the backdrop of a massive window of stained glass.
Your bed attacks you, your pirate ship explodes, you get to play as a dog and the inventory system is fun. Essentially, your items are always at the bottom of the screen, allowing you to solve puzzles quickly by selecting items within it to interact with your environment. Lastly, the combat, while simple, features a decent side-view take-turn system with unique monsters. (Keep in mind, when I keep saying “unique” or “original” I mean, as opposed to the generic assets that come with any purchase of the RPG Maker).
Altogether, unpolished, uncomplicated and yet another take-turn RPG, it is at least trying to be original and I can appreciate that, especially against the backdrop of other generic and frustratingly dull RPG Maker games. A decent Tier 2 play, probably worth it for a few interesting monsters and concepts here and there, a vaguely interesting story with a tolerable combat system.
