Reviews

• christyoshima

  Nov 25, 2021

  Ok, so i got this one from byuing the RPG Makeer MV bundle when the Covid broke out and i was out of job. I had plenty of time working on every single DLC that i got and i have to admit that i opened it once and the shut it down. It seemed pretty messed up and a little complicated. So, i spend like 300 hours on MV and let this little piece of tool aside, forgetting about it completely. Now, a year and a half ago i decided to give it a go and after studying it a bit, experimenting, i actually liked it a lot. Would i buy it as a stand alone? Mm, maybe if i had enough money and i didn't really cared. Is it essential and really important? No, absolutely not, but it can provide some useful tools if you want to play with tiles and create some personalized - but in a simple sense - tilesets. It is one of those products that you have to give it a little time to discover and play with it, in order to understand it further. So, if you have it do so. Give it a go. It might take you 10 minutes or half an hour, but in the end it might change your mind.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 11, 2022

  HOW TO GET THIS TO WORK: I am writing this review for people that can't get this to work. I was filling out a refund request as I was going through different scenarios to try to fix it and they weren't working. I was adding what I tried and failed to the refund request. After it not showing up in RPG maker MV or showing up in the detected tools list, I was trying to run it directly from the 'tool' directory under the rpg maker mv install folder. When I'd run it the splash screen would pop up and then disappear. There were no warning or errors in the event logs. The windows troubleshooter helpfully told me it was incompatible, so I was just about to refund when I found a post talking about problems with it. I guess the windows troubleshooter just says it's incompatible if it doesn't know how to fix it. "If I don't know the answer it must be the programs fault". Typical Microsoft. The biggest problem is they don't tell you how to use it and for some reason it isn't automatically detected in RPG maker mv where you first look for it. On steam, it should be downloaded and unpacked, but RPG maker does not see it or add it. How to fix: 1. In RPG maker mv I went to Tools->RPG Maker MV tools. It doesn't show the tools detected - probably because they install to 'tool' rather than to a plugin directory. 2. So you have to hit the button 'Select Path' and then point it to the tool directory under you RPG maker MV install directory. 3. In the tool directory you should see directories for SAKAN and/or the other ones if you bought them. Selecting the directory under tool worked for me. Once you've selected the proper folder hit the Select Path button. The plugins should then show up under the Found Tools list. 4. Once you see them show up at the bottom under "Found Tools" you have so then click on the plugin in the list so that it's highlighted and then hit the Add button. When done adding hit the "OK" button. Once this is done they will show up in RPG maker MV. THE SHORT VERSION So, the short version is that the plugins are installed to 'tool' instead of 'plugins' so you manually have to go and add them into rpg maker mv. They DO NOT run stand alone so if you try to run the .exe from the install directory the splash screen will come up and disappear and you won't get any warning. The fact that there are no instructions for how this should be used/work adds to the confusion.
• Cartman486

  Jul 12, 2022

  How do you mess up software so bad that it has no paint bucket, no easy to use eyedropper, can only edit one tileset at a time, and has a ton of issues (that were somewhat fixed but not fully) running on modern Windows? Seriously, the only way I can see someone wanting this is for the free tiles it comes with. But this software is extremely tedious to use and has a ton of issues with crashing and the like. Yeah not worth it, there's better options that are free to use.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 15, 2023

  Do NOT USE THIS if you just want tileset edit, there's no layering support, so is painful to use. I'd rather get GIMP. I only liked about its tilesets. Also I'm on windows 10 updated in 2023 version, I've seen comments that people have issues with it. I guess I'm fine tho.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 22, 2017

  I have more than 2k hours in MV, & I've altered in one way or another just about all of my tilesets. This lets me, import assets, export assets, & alter the assets I already have in my database. So for someone like me who is always tinkering with their tilesets, I like it a great deal. UI is nice & streamlined & can be booted up from MV while you're working on your project. I would say that if you aren't planning on doing much with your tilesets, you're probably better just fooling around with defaults on Gimp. But if you want as much variety as possible with your tilesets, or you want use your own tilesets but aren't a top tier pixel artist, this might be just what you're looking for.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 22, 2017

  You won't be able to make anything super original, but it's great for piecing together tiles. If not for anything else, it comes with a decent amount of original B-style tiles and a simple animator. It would be nice if scroll zooming and a dynamic "selector" feature were added. Overall, it truly is the RPG Maker of image editting software. I rate it 15 out of 24 toenails.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 24, 2017

  So after playing around with it for a while I think like this: Is the programm worth the money? NOPE Its usefull if you forgot to add one thing to a tileset or want to switch something out, but for MAKING one its really bad. At least at the moment (24.3.17). But are the parts worth it? 100% Even more so if you are using Yanflys Doodads. Just buy it, take the parts from the folder and be happy. There are still some wild pixel sometimes but that can be fixed very quick and maybe they will patch it.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 26, 2017

  Bought and downloaded SAKAN, followed the instrcutions for Mac users, does not appear after install. I can see SAKAN sitting in the Steam path: Users/Test/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/RPG Maker MV/Tileset Builder. Launching the app from this directory starts it up but then it crashes. I am running Mac 10.12.3 on a MacBook Pro. Would appreciate some help with the install. Until then, I would not recommend to Mac users.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 27, 2017

  I'm having an issue with this editor. I was able to launch it for once. Then I quit my RPGMaker, the next day, I opened RPGMaker MV and clicked tool, then selected . There were a list of undefined/undefined in the additional tools window and I add Sakan again but it won't show up in the tool menu. So I cannot start it again. I also does not work when I directly click on the Sakan package I found in steam folder. I'm with MacOs by the way. Given that I have wasted two days trying to fix this but got not luck, I'm thinking to get a refund and remove it from my library for good. It really pissed me off since there is not much support for a tool like this.
• gamedeal user

  Apr 12, 2017

  TL:DR - Not worth $30 - Good for a quick edit, not much more. Wait for updates. 5.4/10 rating. I'm a huge fan of the RPG Maker Products. I've been using them for quite some time, and even purchased multiple licenses for MV. The tools up until this point have all been 3rd party. It was quite exciting for me when SAKAN launched. A built in tool for MV would SURELY be amazing, especially after watching a video for it. It seemed like the perfect addition for what I was trying to do. Then I made a purchase, and wish I would have refunded it right away. It gives a lot of sense of promise, but the editor is unintuitive, and not helpful, if you are used to ANY other image/tile editing program. Especially compared with the way that MV works, I would have atleast expected it to feel similar to MV. The F1 help form, is only helpful in the slightest way, and most stuff would benefit from being more well documented. After playing around for hours, and attempting to gain a more intimate knowledge of a tool that's supposed to help make my maps more original, and my tiles more sexy, I began to realize that it would have just been easier to use a FREE program like GIMP, or Photoshop (since I already own it) Every single thing that you can do with SAKAN, you can do with another editor, plus more. So in the end, I have decided to keep SAKAN, because it's nice for a quick edit (sometimes), but at this point, that's the only other good feature. And because I want to support the developers. I just sincerely hope, that with a pricetag like that, there will be many updates in the future to improve SAKAN, and that make me want to update my review. As much as I would like to recommend this MV Tool to someone I just can't tell people to spend their hard earned money on it yet. Not until we see updates, and new and refined features. A layer window would be nice, rather than CTRL+Z everything. That all being said, My rating: Features: 5/10 Customizability: 2/10 Documentation: 7/10 Intuitiveness: 5/10 Functionability: 8/10 Overall Score: 5.4/10.0 You would be better off saving your money for now. Edit: I just realized Steam doesnt log my hours when i launch this tool, because im launching from inside MV, so.... yeah. Many more hours invested in this than 0.0 lol.