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@Ronove: immortal, as in immune to knockout? I'm not sure if that'll function right in CC's engine build. More or less it can be described as 'touchy'. I could give it a shot though- or even make it for 10% (which is 9999 HP and unless the player has grinded to infinity I doubt they're going to get a single hit that high before I can abort the battle). Yes I made my last boss have 99999 HP. It's actually level appropriate with how HP has been increasing across the game (plus if you play it right WITHOUT grinding you can get a single character to be hitting about 5000+ a pop).

Any way to make the notes sound... softer? Not quieter, more like... more fade-y. Less like system beeps. I don't know the right word, I'm not a music man.

Maybe you can't do that with midi.

Anyway it immediately made me think of this song, which plays when Cloud is in the wheelchair:


@SorceressKyrsty: 20 hits to kill the final boss? That's kinda weak! I know you're going to spend a lot of turns being defensive, and you're not going to do 5000 damage with every hit, but even so, it's the final boss. When I was playing your game, several of the bosses took me longer than that.

Have you considered making the final boss transform during the fight? It's an easy way to get around the 99999 max HP limit. I mean, having a final boss that transforms into a giant grotesque monster and then into a shirtless winged guy is pretty much standard FF fare anyway.

Yes, those are the correct music terms. Hooray.

Why break the boss's HP limit when he can simply heal anyway?

@Avee because making bosses heal in CC is a pain in the ass. For some reason, for them to do decent healing, they need to have really high Magic- which throws off all magic-based skills and leaves the player dead within a few minutes. I can't rebalance the curative skills either because right now they're perfect for player use (which is what they're more or less intended for).
I could make duplicate Cures with a lower negative power rating, but up until now I've never thought of that :p


EDIT: I'm currently revising boss battles anyway. I was watching Extra Credits (the one on pacing? yeah) and I realized that the hill-valley-method in boss battles makes them a lot more intense. Strong attacks to bring you near-death, heal, attack, attack, bring them down to a bit less fierce, heal, recover, attack some more and BADUM ARGH RAY BOMB TAT. It's that kind of emotional taunting that makes you go WOOOOOHHHHHHOOOOOOOOO at the end of a boss.

I was working on a lot of stuff, but one of them is this guy:


He's going through hell and I thought at least he deserved a badass cutin.

That's a guy? You sure?

Right now I'm fixing a whole bunch of bugs involving ladders. Lots and lots of ladders.

GAH LADDERS

Also I'm desperately trying to stop myself from coding more weapons, because I need to fix what I have first before I add more stuff to break, but they're so damn fun.