Makes me wish I would have had RPGmaker growing up...
I made it all the way! Talked to the cactus, flower pot... reflected on the grave; and set sail to the first town.
Wandered around some really BIG houses [inside anyway!], investigated some bones that turned out to have monsters...
Walked through the desert, visited the town with Ilse's mum, there were quite a few people in that town! I did get stuck on Ilse's mum once though, when she is panicing I ran in front of her and got stuck with her shouting : "She's been taken!" "She's been taken!" "She's been taken!" "She's been taken!" "She's been taken!" "She's been taken!" I know!! Let me save her@!#
Started over, and made it to the Volcano and saved the day from the evil fairy playing dress-up as an evil monster knight.
With everything said and done, I returned home to the talking plants, and called it a day...
Not bad for your first RPGmaker work! There's a lot of tips you could learn, although it's kind of cool to see unusual conventions like the huge houses inside, and how bumping into people starts the conversations.
Tip :
If you ever want to change some person into a, "you have to push a button to start conversation" person :
Right click the the person (event) you want to change; and do Edit event...
Then change the Trigger Condition to Action Key.