What exactly is the area rank limit again? Does it lock my party out of the dungeon if I'm at too high a level? Luckily, I completed almost every event (including Forneus) in the first dungeon, except for the ones behind two locked paths.

Also, is there a point to limiting the amount of saves per dungeon? It seems like I can go back to town to save without consequence, unless there's some kind of bonus for winning several battles in a row without returning to town.

Awww man. I just finished Promise (is there a way to unlock more content? I finished the ice labyrinth and then suddenly credits). So I'm hoping for more of a game.

Is this completed?

when i saw VN i was gonna ignore this(i dont think its a bad genre but hard for me to get into)
but after looking at screen shots and info and such im interested and want to check this out subbed :D

I thought it was pretty obvious from the status menu. Guess not. I'll add explanations for what each stat is in that aforementioned Help menu. Though I will say that I did explain what the meters in battle were. In the first battle of the first dungeon there was a tutorial explanation. I know I did that much at least. Did the lack of an accompanying visual indicator cause you to ignore it? I'd actually like to know.

It's not totally cryptic, but when a dev uses new terms for stats, I like to have them explained so there is no doubt. I was only 100% sure about POW. Lifeforce could be Max HP or Vitality. Wisdom, I think it was,*oh, Knowledge* it likely for magic, but what does it affect? Magic attack? Magic defense? Does it have any bearing on my MP. I know this is 2k3, but it seems like a game where many things have been altered. I wouldn't assume anything.

Maybe it was because there was so much text, so many things to remember at the start, that by the time I tried to remember what those meters were for..I forgot.

When you say Visual Indicator, do you mean a picture showing the action? or some kind of arrow pointing to what the text is referring to? I'm not sure something like that would have made a difference, since it might have been caused by info overload.

I think the best thing to do is explain something at the time you have it available to use. But since so much is available right from the start, dish out info in pieces. Maybe explain the combo system, then let me have a few turns to use it, then explain the next thing, and let me have a few turns to use it. That kind of thing. Or maybe make a battle training place in town. Since these guys are mercinaries? there should be some kind of training ground for them. Offer up a "refresher course" for the new recruits, as an optional tutorial fight. I think a fight that tells you one thing, and lets you do it, then tells you another thing, lets you do it, is the best way to go. Even having access to read all that info, isn't as effective as hands on training of one thing at a time.

As for EX anything, I didn't see any available command for it. I noticed the EX meter going up but I never had access to any new command menu for EX attacks and there were no skills added to existing commands that I could see. I actually assumed it was like Limit Break, where I needed to fill it up to use it. I would scroll to the bottom of my command list from time to time, but the only time some new command showed up was in the final battle when Soul Eater and the other one, Ether Burst? was it? Then another one showed up after Soul Eater, one that increase his magic attack power. Oh, and then some burst command with a single attack combo move in it showed up. Without much warning, too. I think you might have made mention of those things very early on, but they didn't show up until the end so I didn't remember anything about them.

My strategy didn't consist solely of combo after combo, although for the most part it seemed like that was the most damaging thing to do for the guy hero. And since I had no healing, it seemed like I needed to dish out as much dmg as possible, as quickly as possible. Combo/Focus/Repeat seemed like the most damaging thing to do. For the girl, her combo was Ice and weak against these enemies so I didn't use it very much. Instead I used Ether attacks, but even then it seemed like I was charging a lot.

What do you mean by 'raising the hit count'? What is the significance of doing that?

I did notice a slight heal on focus, but it was less than 10, from what I remember. Nice little addition for when I need to focus anyways, but not a viable heal option. Elemental barriers healed? Say wha? I don't recall that being mentioned and I didn't notice it happening when I cast the spells.

I noticed that HP/MP regen'd after battle, but I mean that when I was looking in the stats menu I didn't see what my Max HP/MP values were. Or at least, it wasn't obvious. It's not a big deal, it just seemed missing.

:3 Yes, gimme boss mode. Or some kind of arena battling thing, where I can battle increasingly stronger monsters as I level up. Not to do then do the story all powerleveled, but just to do some battling.

*I was looking in the Game Mechanics tab and noticed some things that I had no idea existed.

Elemental Flow Shift

Link Arts Chain System

EX Blocks, Exceed Limits

EX Blocks are the blue cubes located on the right of a character's Battle HUD, you can expend these for EX Recover and Exceed Limits. They also are used with some passive skills.

You gain EX at a moderate pace from taking action in battle. However, you gain the most EX from using Burst Skills. Using a Burst Skill gives you around two blocks, while it would take 2-3 normal actions to get one otherwise. However it all adds up in the long run. EX piles on at a good rate, so never be afraid to expend it

Hold Z/Enter during a Burst or Ether Skill in order to extend it into a character's EX Limit. An EX Limit is essentially an extra action taken outside of your turn. Both Bursts and Spells have EX Limits attached to them.

EX Limits for Burst Skills take 2 EX Blocks. EX Limits for Spells take 1 EX Block. However in order to unlock EX Limits, you need to upgrade your character's Special Rank in the Advance Menu until you gain the skill needed to use them.

Even after reading this, I don't understand how to use EX healing. Do I perform an EX limit and pray to the heavens it does a heal spell? :P And it seems like I need to unlock the Special Rank? I didn't even know what Special Rank was, so I avoided unlocking it. It seemed useless, so I went for spells instead.

I don't mean to keep rubbing in how you did a poor job of explaining things xD I'm just explaining in detail what I don't know and why, to better help you explain things in the future.

Combo Chain System - oh ok, that's what it does.

Exceed Recovery - oh, there it is. I don't recall that ever being explained.

Barrier LF System

Focus Guard System - oh, so 1/10th HP is restored? I just remember seeing a single digit and thinking, not much HP. And I don't recall being told it doubles as the Defend command. Although I guessed by the stance of the hero.

Heh, I guess I should have looked at that page first. I see it explains the stats. But like many other people, I just downloaded and jumped right in.

Finally got around to playing this. I only did the first map area and I did make it to the end. Barely heh That last fight was pretty intense. I really thought I was going to get game over and bam! My dead hero came back to life :o I didn't know that this would happen since it was the first time I kept fighting with one dead person. It was awesome! Then right after that hero came back, my other hero died, and I really thought it was over...

I can understand what people said about tons of info up front, but it didn't impact the game for me. There should be tutorial battles where you can't lose and every move gets to be used once. It didn't seem fair to only tell me what the special commands did after I used them, and couldn't decide if I wanted to wait. Like his SoulEater(DRK much?) ability. I used it first turn and it was a bust + 10 turn wait for it to be useful again. I almost lost because of that.

The menu seemed pretty bare, considering how complicated the gameplay is. A help option with lots of info would be good. No equips? No way to see what skills I have learned so far? What's my current max HP? I dunno.

I didn't know what the stats were. PRY? Lifeforce, or something. Is that max HP? Maybe I missed something, but something like that should be one of the first things forced into my brain. I didn't understand what the meters were below my faceset in battle.

I don't like lack of healing. I got 1 shotted pretty early on, and I don't think it was a super hard monster. He did a magic ice attack that hit 3 or 4 times and did 80 plus damage I think. Well, it's in the video. I didn't die much, but I dunno, I just feel a little too helpless without any healing and no items. Maybe it was coming soon.

But I didn't really care for the whole static bg and node mapping. I can appreciate that it's something different, but the immersion isn't there for me. I like to walk around and explore.

The writing was okay. Fun.

Um, what else, I didn't suffer any interrupts in battle. At least I didn't notice any. I like the combo attack system, but I found the price a little too high. I could do it once or twice before having to recharge or sacrifice HP. Then I'd have to charge for 2 turns to use it once. In the long battle it felt really drawn out, I was often out of resources and had to charge. Something like that might change as you level up, but it felt really steep for a low level thing.

So yeah, the video is pending and I dunno if I'd play again. Even though I didn't see much. I'd like to explore the battle system, but I don't like the rest of the game's style enough. Could you make a Boss Rush mode? :D

Hmm, that's odd. I remember using Molebox before (although I did purchase the full version and didn't just use the demo to compile the files) for my game and tested in on a whole assortment of different people's machines and none of them popped up with a virus message. Perhaps that just might be the case with the demo version of Molebox?

Either way, I don't use Molebox anymore because it really doesn't serve much of a purpose unless you don't want your custom artwork, sprites, etc. to be stolen. But then again, we've discussed about this matter MANY times in the past...

There's none.