Hey all! Wanted to pitch an idea to the community and get some feedback. Through the various beta testers and through the comments of others, many people seem to think that in the beginning on this game (where the only battle strategy is to use attack or items until Level 3) can get a tad repetitive and boring. Part of this was due to what many believe was a too steep EXP curve with enemies giving too little EXP. I have changed the EXP issue in the next demo version I plan to release.
Anyways, I was thinking about skills that I could add to the game that might make the beginning more exciting.

Skill: Retaliate. How Learned? During and Introduction Battle to the game. It will be explained in the intro battle as well.

Retaliate will increase your defense rating (about 40% less than the increase in defense granted by regular defend), and puts you in a state where you have a say 50% chance to counter an attack. So if Slime A hits you while you're in Counter state, you have a 50% chance to strike back to Slime A. If Slime B hits, you'd have a 50% chance to counter and hit Slime B and so on. I would only want counter to proc on normal hits, not magic spells or abilities used by monsters. This would create a useful, but far from overpowered ability that would make the initial game more fun I think! This would be a particularly viable tactic against battles with large groups of enemies, and would add a bit of variety.

I've already got my scripter working on this, but I'm wondering if it sounds like a good idea and would be it be enough?


On another note, I plan to release the newest demo for the game soon! (Probably at the end of this week if all goes well)!