
The game features up to 30 recruitable party members, each with their own unique personality and abilities. When she eventually gets kidnapped by grunts of Rando, a skull-masked warlord, Brad sets out on a journey to rescue her while facing the horrors of a world filled to the brim with idiots, perverts, slavers, a mysterious masked cult known as the Joy Boys who distribute a drug called Joy (which makes the user "feel nothing"), and the mutated monstrosities known as Joy Mutants who have been warped by the cult's creation. Seeing as she is the (supposedly) last female on Earth, Brad adopts her and names her Buddy. He and his friends make a living in the harsh desert land when, one day, a baby girl is left outside Brad's home.

The protagonist is a bald, aging and troubled martial artist named Brad Armstrong, the now-grown brother of Lisa. Unlike "LISA: The First", the second installment is an Earthbound-style RPG sidescroller taking place in a world without any women, who were wiped out by The Flash. Then, on December 15th, 2014, Austin finally released the full game. On November 21st, 2013, Austin released a demo for his next game, "LISA: The Painful RPG", as a reward for one of its Kickstarter goals being reached. The horror elements are mostly atmospheric, preferring haunting, creepy music and bizarre environments that are left quite available for the player to observe to jump scares and brief glimpses of monsters. You can download it here.įollowing in the tradition of Yume Nikki, the player guides Lisa through various worlds, connected to a lobby by different doors, and must collect different items and navigate obstacles in order to progress through her journey. She not only tries to escape from them, but she also tries to escape from the man at the center of it all as well, her abusive father Marty Armstrong. Released on September 10th, 2012, the original LISA (later re-named "LISA: The First" to avoid confusion with the sequels) is an Adventure Game created using RPG Maker 2003 that explores the non-specific but not exactly vague ways that the unfortunate circumstances of the titular young girl Lisa Armstrong's life have affected her. area in the United States, chronicling the journey of three members of the Armstrong family and their lives both before and after 'The Flash', an unspecified apocalyptic event that turned Olathe from a lush green locale to a Mad Max-esque desert wasteland. Each of the games in the series has "LISA" in the title, take place in the same universe, and share themes such as physical and psychological abuse, mental illness, human depravity, and substance abuse. The LISA trilogy is a series of indie games developed by Austin "Dingaling" Jorgensen.
