History VideoGame / TamingDreams

The game takes place in a world called Alora Fane, a world consisting of seven pocket dimensions formed out the dreams of the gods. The gods, however, [[HaveYouSeenMyGod have abandoned the world]], leaving the world to slowly wither. That is, until a group of worldless gods called Atonae discover the world. One of them, Rohoph, enters the world in the form of a crystal falling from the sky, and takes up residence in the otherwise empty head of Mardek, who was the first bliss-sentimental person to touch the crystal. Rohoph is one of the Atonae, gods that lack a world, some for a [[JerkassGods good reason]].

''Taming Dreams'' is an [[AndroidGames Android]] game, made by Tobias Cornwall and released in 2015. It revolves around a lad named Mardek, his childhood friend Deugan, and a [[SharingABody god living in Mardek's head]] called Rohoph. If this sounds somehow familiar, it is because the game is a ContinuityReboot of ''VideoGame/{{MARDEK}}'', and Tobias used to go by the nickname Pseudolonewolf.

Taming Dreams is an Android game by Tobias Cornwall. It revolves around a lad named Mardek, his childhood friend Deugan, and a [[SharingABody god living in Mardek's head]] called Rohoph. If this sounds somehow familiar, it is because the game is a ContinuityReboot of VideoGame/{{MARDEK}}, and Tobias used to go by the nickname Pseudolonewolf.

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** "Dark, dirty, dangerous dungeons"

* RainbowSpeak: Some words are highlighted, like this segment from Episode 1:
--> '''Enki:''' You know, your purpose. You have to be driven by a [[red:dream]]! Something you'd ask the [[red:gods]] to make true if you found them!

* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Heaps of it. "Dreams drive us to divine discoveries" and "Dark, dirty, dangerous dungeons" are just a few.

%%--> Now, do we get experience points and level up and stuff? - Mardek
%%--> Experience points? Level up?
%%--> Numbers getting bigger to make us stronger... What an odd idea.

* ConvectionSchmonvection: The lava in the area does not convect.

* WorldShapes: Alora Fane is depicted as flower shaped, although it is implied that this is simply an abstraction of the structure of the world. Each petal is a self-contained world and the means to reach other worlds have yet to be revealed.

Taming Dreams is a smartphone game by Tobias Cornwall. It revolves around a lad named Mardek, his childhood friend Deugan, and a [[SharingABody god living in Mardek's head]] called Rohoph. If this sounds somehow familiar, it is because the game is a ContinuityReboot of VideoGame/{{MARDEK}}, and Tobias used to go by the nickname Pseudolonewolf.

%%--> Numbers getting bigger to make us stronger... What an odd idea. Sort of a ludicrous abstraction though... What would the numbers actually represent? The tensile strength of our muscle fibres? The hardness of our skin? The number of active neurones in our brains?

* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Heaps of it.

* AnArmAndALeg: Berdanre is largely bedridden due to missing his right arm and leg after a tragic accident.

* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Inverted; the closer the caster, sentimancy and target's sentiment and runes match, the stronger their sentimancy is. Each sentiment also has a more traditional rock-paper-scissors relation with another.

* JerkassGods: The Atonae are not exactly nice. Ghrafuuar mentions having made his mortal followers wear burning helmets, and Rohoph's attitude is not entirely nice either.

The game takes place in a world called Alora Fane, a world consisting of seven pocket dimensions formed out the dreams of the gods. The gods, however, [[HaveYouSeenMyGod have abandoned the world]], leaving the world to slowly wither. That is, until Rohoph enters the world in the form of a crystal falling from the sky, and takes up residence in the otherwise empty head of Mardek. Rohoph is one of the Atonae, gods that lack a world, some for a [[JerkassGods good reason]].

* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Heaps of it.

* FloweryElizabethanEnglish / YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: The Atonae speak with this. Mardek seems to be picking up the habit from Rohoph.

* HaveYouSeenMyGod: The Aolmna, the world's original gods, have gone missing.

* ShatteredWorld: Fracture, formerly the home to a destruction-sentimented race.

* TrueArtIsAngsty: The major strength of the Sorrow sentiment is producing beautiful poetry.

* RubberForeheadAlien: The Barbari races seen so far are the Bold, who have a hairy nose and a cleft upper lip, Mhandisi, who look like brown-skinned humans, and Meek, who look like humans with deer ears (and antlers on the so far offscreen males).

The game is a rather large departure from the original RPG format, doing away with such things as {{Character Level}}s and the "hit it with a sword until it falls over" concept of combat. The [[{{Mon}} Miasmons]] encountered are [[EnemyWithout embodiments of the characters' internal turmoil]], and are defeated by accepting said internal turmoil by building rapport with the mon, whereas the mon's attacks sap the characters' willpower. The combat system also involves an intricate take on ElementalRockPaperScissors involving one immutable sentiment and three alterable runes.

* {{Angst}}: It's a game about [[EnemyWithout enemies without]] spawned from emotional turmoil.

* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Inverted; the closer the attacker, sentimancy and target's sentiment and runes match, the stronger their sentimancy is.
* EmphasisOnTheWrongSyllable: Morric
* EnemyWithout: The Miasmons.

* FloweryElizabethanEnglish: The Atonae speak with this. Mardek seems to be picking up the habit from Rohoph.

* InsistentTerminology: "Battle" is referred to as Agitation.

* TheStoic: Meraeadyth fancies herself this, and her philosophy is that avoiding all emotions to eliminate the danger of [[EnemyWithout enemies without]].

* TheStoic: Meraeadyth fancies herself this, and her philosophy is that avoiding all emotions to eliminate the danger of [[EnemyWithout enemies without]].

* TheStoic: Meraedyth fancies herself this, and her philosophy is that avoiding all emotions to eliminate the danger of [[EnemyWithout enemies without]].

Taming Dreams is a smartphone game by Tobias Cornwall. It revolves around a lad named Mardek, his childhood friend Deugan, and a [[SharingABody god living in Mardek's head]] called Rohoph. If this sounds somehow familiar, it is because the game is a ContinuityReboot of VideoGame/MARDEK, and Tobias used to go by the nickname Pseudolonewolf.

* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: Heaps of it

* InsistentTerminology: "Battle" is Agitation.