Bronze Soul

So given that right now making new stuff would be a bit of a challenge, I've decided to basically edit all of the old. Everything in the demo will be fixed and edited. So far I've done:

Changes to the dialogue, both major and minor. Some as simple as moving the placement of the words so nothing is cut off, some as big as changing what is said.

The side-quest in the first (and only for now) house you can enter in Ertinal would crash the game if you didn't have the required herb with you. This was due to a process that wasn't working properly, and has been dealt with accordingly.

I am so going to change the way you unlock that door in order to get the ultra-powerful lightning spell. Having to count objects in the main game does not equal fun if you are getting into random encounters.

Speaking of random encounters, I have doubled the average steps needed to get into one, so you should get into those far less often.

There was a bug in the Deralius Shopkeeper mini-game whenever this one character popped up. You couldn't get the item from a certain shelf due to the placement of the event. This has been fixed.

The bullies in the schoolyard moving too fast for you to do anything? No worries, now they are slower than molasses.

The beginning enemies (Daggers) I deemed too hard to fight. If your strategy involves using the fireball spell and an inordinate amount of luck, I failed to provide you with a good experience. Their Strength, Agility, and Health have all been lowered.

If there is anything I might have missed, or dialogue you thought was so bad that it hurt to read, let me know.

Craze did a short (and canceled) LT for this game. At first I was hurt, since he didn't finish it. Then I decided to play through and make a walkthrough thing for it. As I was doing this, I came to realize something: my game sucks! I mean, it had a lot of great ideas, but all in all, it was flawed in every conceivable way.

When I was testing the game as a tester, I was just looking through seeing if an event worked the way it should. When I actually played the game as a player, though...I was kind of bored. Battles in the beginning were really hard for beginner battles, the story made no sense, and I used ellipses...all...the...time...like this!

As Craze had put it, it looked like I put no effort into it. Sadly, this isn't true. I put a lot of effort into it, and that makes me sad. I don't want that to be the case for any of my future projects.

I'm not canceling this project, though. The plot will remain the same (dual-world), as will the characters. Technically speaking, all I would be doing is erasing the maps and events, and starting anew. So if this game DOES get released (which I highly doubt for now), it will not be how the demos have made it out to be. And I will do my best to make sure it can stand out from the sea of games that are decent.Though I doubt I would be able to match Hero's Realms standard. Damn you, Kentona, for making a high standard game that would have out-sold any Final Fantasy game on the market!

Note for Craze: I'm sorry for how I initially reacted to your LT.

I contacted you two weeks ago in both English and Japanese, and you still haven't answered. In case you don't know, I can't connect to your site to purchase a product. It's a very serious problem, because I really want to use your product. But you are being very uncooperative about the whole situation. I feel that you have purposely ignored my email. Don't ignore this one.
I seem to be the only one with problems connecting to your site, and I think my I.P. address is being blocked. If you would be so kind as to check, I'll be grateful. Answer back.


SO, is this too mean? Or not mean enough?

I've tried everything I could think of to fix my server connection problem, and I have yet to reformat. One of the suggestions I read said that the website could have my IP Address blocked, so I decided to contact Enterbrain to see if this is the case. If it is, I might be one step closer to repurchasing RPG Maker XP. Cross your fingers.

Heya. I made a new mini game known as Shopkeeper. Rather than make a blog describing what I'm going to do, I've instead decided to upload a non-interactive demo showing you how it works.

In other news, story progress has been a bit slow right now. I'll try my best to get further on it, though I have so many ideas. I can't wait to finish this game to the best I can make it...ironic, considering it's my first game, and those are never the best...usually.


See ya next blog/comment/forum post!