Myself and Desertopa have recently taken it upon ourselves to run through the game from start to finish in order to test both the major events, and how balanced all the enemies are (the answer: not quite!)

The final dungeon and ending scenes have yet to be implemented, but I wanted to get most of the details up until that point ironed out before bringing everything to a close. Both of us are currently at mid-game, with Desertopa awaiting on another (the 6th or 7th) version wherein the late-game enemies are a little more manageable!

After I'd finished working on the 2nd last dungeon, I decided to make a few big changes in terms of the amount of stats you'd gain upon leveling up, and what kind if effects equipment would really have in the end versus just power-leveling your way to victory. I decided that most of a character's ATK and DEF were going to come from weapons and armour respectively, and did some major overhauls to the game's characters and equipment. Where Desertopa has landed himself in his playthrough is a dungeon I'd designed around the ridiculous amount of stat gains a character would attain upon leveling up. In that (much less tested) version, enemies in a new area would be taking chunks out of you when you arrived, but after you gained a few levels, they'd be relatively harmless.

Beyond that, everything's going smoothly, and I hope to have the game completed by sometime in January! FINGERS CROSSED, EVERYONE!