But what about all the other awesome RPG Maker games? Like…

Last Scenario
Kind of like the Tales of series (at least in the “building a plot full of RPG cliches, and then subverting the hell out of them” sense), but with less anime and more political intrigue and military operations. It’s also like the Tales of series in that there’s a bajillion secret bosses and dungeons (literally a bajillion.)
Also, one of the characters is a knife-fighting geologist.
A knife-fighting geologist.

Star Stealing Prince
HOLY FUCK IT’S SO PRETTY. LOOK AT THOSE SCREENSHOTS. IT’S LIKE…MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!
It’s also one of the only RPGs where status effects are actually as good against enemies as they are against you. Even against bosses. Even against the FINAL BOSS.

Paradise Blue
Also very pretty, and uses the Final Fantasy V job system very well.

Hellion
Sort of an old-school dungeon crawler with bits of D&D.

Leo & Leah
Very weird and quirky…until it suddenly turns creepy as hell.

Space Funeral
Dracula likes to drink the blood and smoke the weed.

Aetherion
Okay, so this one’s sort of an incomplete version created for a contest, but MMMMMMMMMMMM THAT BATTLE SYSTEM. You know that part in an RPG where a boss is charging up a big fuck you attack and you gotta beat the hell out of him until stops? That’s every fight in the game.
I’ve also heard good things about Vacant Sky, Tales of the Drunken Paladin, Alter AILA and Master of the Wind, though I haven’t played any of them yet.