In Praise of Peace

In Praise of Peace is coming along, even though it sometimes gets ignored when a bug pops up in the WIP Melody battle system. Yanfly and I have spent quite a bit of time debugging and fixing stuff - but now the game runs as smoothly as one would hope! Note that Yanfly does the actual work. I just break things.

Right now I'm currently fighting with the game's first midboss, the creatively-titled Castle Defender. ...yeah, anyway, it's a funky midboss battle for several reasons:

-It is the first "hard" fight in the game
-It is right after the various battle tutorials, and is basically asking "please use what you know now"
-If you don't do it right, you will probably die horribly
-If one of your two-character team dies too soon, you are what many would consider "dead"
-You are expected to use attack items

The lattermost is the key here. You start the game with a handful of powerful attack items, as well as a few simple bombs that are fairly effective. The game suggests that you use attack items on the midboss (through character dialogue), which you really should, because your best items (which, again, you are expected to use) do over 20% of the Defender's health in damage.

That's not all, though. Since you are kind of infiltrating the castle ("kind of" meaning "very much so"), more and more guards are popping up to aid the midboss. This includes a healer and a battlemage. Ow. That said, you've already practiced owning a Court Medic in one of the tutorials, and the Court Mage has so little HP that Lun can easily pick him off.

Alternatively, you could just guard until all of the enemies are present, use the Traveler's Lyre you picked up in a chest to put all of the enemies to sleep, and then hit then with Padrick's Cleanse spell (Pure damage to all; the midboss and Sentinels are weak to Pure, so!). Sleep doubles damage taken, and gives you a second to breathe/heal up.

Bottom line: hard midboss is hard, unless you actually use your sklnfdlsaknglsak attack items.