Eldritch Law

Looking forward to seeing the progress for this. Your old work included some of my favorite 2k3 games.

Now this is a game.

I finished it. There isn't enough content to merit a review, but here's some quick feedback:

Good: It's overall well done. The combat is well done, although it seems fairly easy to spam Reave and Metatron Flare. I'm curious to see how multiple party members will change the dynamic. The music is excellent (the credits theme was especially enjoyable). The graphics are overall quite nice, although the battlebacks are in a different resolution which is not so good, and I noticed some weird graphical errors while playing. Could be my computer.

Bad: It's very short. Like, it's just an intro demo so that's to be forgiven, but don't expect much in the way of... anything but a hyperlinear narrative. Again, I'm not knocking it for this, but it doesn't show off much other than the cutscene direction. There is a lot of missing polish; the interior autotile corners appear to be backward, for instance. The save point is very cool but the animation needs some work. Not being able to interact with fighting soldiers that you're standing right next to is kind of annoying. The lone sentry who is relaxing in a battlefield and then warns you about going ahead (when there are soldiers both before and after him) doesn't make sense. The shift key both speeding and skipping dialogue is not a good idea. If that can be changed... please. The TP counter should be red in the bottom right, as well, although since the AP colour changes I'm not 100 percent sure that'd work.

I'm not a fan of front-view battle systems, although that's neither here nor there, in the long run. The download contains the RTP, but doesn't use any of it. Is there a reason for that? I know 300mbs is nothing in 2018, but it just seems like... weird.

Anyway to Nightblade: it's good, keep it up, I have subscribed.
To other people: it's good, download it and enjoy yourself for twenty minutes.

i hope the writing's high quality

I can second those unusual seams cutting apart graphics; it happened to me during the section immediately following that boss fight before the real boss fight. I was running the game fullscreen.

I loved playing your rm2k3 game when I was much younger. Glad to see you're still at it. :)

Finally got a chance to try this. I feel compelled to increase my Patreon donation XD, because this game is booming with potential.

Tonally, it reminded me of the introduction to Phantom Legacy, yet far more polished and tight. The writing has a generally sharp dialogue voice (despite not having much levity) that works to create a nice mystery to Albion. Unlike Keampfer, I didn't mind the lone guard and his cryptic remark, as it suggests a backstory far larger than what's presented here.

The music is fantastic. I expected the visual simplicity to be off-putting, as I'm not often a fan of the style, but by the end, I appreciated it quite a lot. (Weirdly, the simplicity actually works in its favor). The animations were used effectively, especially at the end of the demo - and there's just enough detail to create a world that's grim and brooding. Even if you "touch up" the pixel art at a later time, the general mood is already there, and it works.

I found myself wishing it were longer, though. There's very little context for anything. It'll be fascinating to see if this game pulls back a little, after the encounter with Kahn, building back up to the initial darkness in the way that PL did. The entire demo had a lot of momentum, so I'd love for it to eventually slow down (just a tad) for some world-building. It'd be a great service to the game, because (especially with the writing) you've clearly worked hard over the years to learn what works.

Just played the demo. I really liked the art style and even the menu screen was great. Really brought me back to the SNES days.

The battle system was very interesting - draining AP from enemies and then using it to unleash attacks or heal. Can't wait to see how that gets expanded on later in the game.

The mouth you enter to save the game was creative, the backgrounds were nicely done, and the dialogue is just enough to get the point across without bogging down the player with too much text.

Speaking of the dialogue, I did notice 1 typo where there was an extra "the" in the sentence but can't remember which line of text it was exactly. I'll edit this in if I can find it again.

Anyway, I really enjoyed the quick demo, and will definitely be following this game! Well done! I'm going to go check out some of your other games and give those a playthrough because I really did enjoy what you've done here.