Indra and Scin are ~50% through the final test run, won't be long now!

It's done ;A; After three days of utter insanity, it's OVER....!

author=bulmabriefs144
Cool, it has CTB.

It's my favourite kind of combat system at the moment.

author=Zeuzio
This game is pretty awesome! Especially given the time constraints. Besides a few minor quirks, the battle system is really polished and thought out. The story, particularly the characters and dialogue, is also very enjoyable.

Aww thanks, in terms of the battle system the only thing I wish I had more time to implement would have been difficulty settings.

author=PsychoticCreeper
I really love the unique classes each character has and how each character can fit any whatever role is necessary. I love the way the characters interact with each and the relationships they have. They only minor issue I have is with a couple of spelling mistakes.

Thanks, given the time frame I'm really happy with how the four turned out. Isaac and Alma were the easiest for me, Ezekiel was probably the I struggled most with as it was only on the last day or two when I finally decided how I wanted him to function in battles.

Anyway glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the feedback.

author=edchuy
I just managed to beat the game. Expect a review soon!

I look forward to it, I hope you enjoyed it!

author=Skie Fortress
- Why can't Isaac actually use the item command? It's a waste to have to remember combinations and then remake items in the heat of battle when there's already items made. But I do like the stash command. Better than having to remember over and over.

Because originally every character was going to have their own item command. But only Isaac's made it into the final game which was because it doubled up as his skillset.

author=Skie Fortress
- Enemies with multi-hit AoE spells were particularly annoying. That was what killed me with the bats in the cave. That lightning spell is pure murder. I would have cooled it on the amount of those that existed. Or lowered the amount of hits. Multiple hits were just annoying since damage popups were rather cumbersome.
- I notice that Ellis' decoy only nulls one hit, which means he'll still get wiped out by a multi-hit spell unless you stack up decoys.

Multi-hitting was my way of clearing Ellis's decoys. But given the universal panning of the bats, I will tone them down for the next release.

author=Skie Fortress
- I liked that HP was fully recovered after battle. Makes it easier to just go all out with commands and options rather than fight a war of attrition. Nice choice there.

I've really gone off battles of attrition. When I first played a game with this feature I thought I would hate it but I loved it.

author=Skie Fortress
- There's a huge disparity in damage done to enemies at some points. Some enemies only take 1-50 damage, while others take 200-500 damage, yet both will go down at roughly the same time. It's kind of misleading I think.

It's just high def enemies, they die really quick if you debuff them. It was my way of trying to allow all the characters to have a use in battles. Isaac was my main debuffer.

author=Skie Fortress
- I didn't have any problems with Alma and Ezekiel's mechanics, nice ideas there.

Thank you, though I think next time Alma will focus more on constructions and less on kits.

author=Skie Fortress
- Some of the equipment obtained seems a little suicidal to bother using. What were your design thoughts there? I'm curious.

I'll go through the thoughts behind the personal mods where this might be the case.

Isaac
Wildling - Isaac can reach silly speeds with this mod, more than enough to scrounge two or three times and mix.

Ellis
Wraith - Combined with his decoys this does allow for a lot of damage mitigation.
Light Armour & Heavy Armour
Ellis starts with 40 Def so assuming an enemy has 20 attack he will take 60 damage or 15% of his MHP.
With Light Armour he'll have 20 DEF so assuming an enemy has 20 attack he will take 80 damage or 10% of his MHP.
With Heavy Armour he'll have 80 DEF (cap) so assuming an enemy has 20 attack he will take 20 damage or 20% of his MHP. However you'll be able to equip 4 Def- mods without lowering his DEF which might make up for the HP loss, depends on your playstyle.
With both armours he'll have 80 DEF so assuming an enemy has 20 attack he will take 20 damage or 10% of his MHP.

Ezekiel
Toy Hammer - combine with def- mods without having to worry so much about Ezekiel.
Giant Hammer - combine with Def+ or HP+ to make Ezekiel the tank.
Cursed Hammer - combine with Def- to make Ezekiel pure raw damage dealer.
Normally he'll have 60 DEF so assuming an enemy has 20 attack he will take 40 damage or ~6% of his MHP.
Beserker - he'll have 30 DEF so assuming an enemy has 20 attack he will take 70 damage or 5% of his MHP.
Juggernaut - for making Ezekiel a tank.

author=Skie Fortress
Other than that, nothing else really stood out to me to bother mentioning. I'll keep playing because the characters just amuse me so much. I hope they show up in another Arum universe game sometime!

In the current plan, all of the Immortals characters will be playable again but we're talking a few months until we even start that game.