Already playing the demo. a few things I could complain about, but overall, this is looking promising in my book. Yes, I still intend on testing if you still want me around to test basically.

Okay, I'm done. Although a number of the decisions made are a little far fetched, I can see what direction you want to go with this and I think it's going to rock >:) I can even overlook the yuri when it goes into full force.

You have a number of passability issues to iron out. I took screenshots of the really obstructive ones.


Look where I went :D


I really should be able to squeeze through that. Especially when the alternative is to walk all the way around those chairs.


What's blocking me in that blue circled area? All I see is a dirt patch.
Also, I circled those little rock "blocks" in your tileset's corner pieces. They just don't look right. Can you smoothen them out with a little grass?

Dafuqs
-In that little side event with the cowering soldier in the tent, Tristian should never condone desertion. Even if she fundamentally agrees with his cause for fear, plus the dire war circumstances, leaders still can't go around saying "it's okay to run away".
-The case against Tristian for "abandoning" her soldiers is iffy. Hers, and all her men's, jobs are to protect the royal family at the expense of their own lives. She could have argued that it was more prudent for a lone super soldier, her, to stealthily escort Ianna safely away while her squad buys them time with their lives. This works both ways though, since you could later write that she did it partly out of her own fear. Whatever the case, it's expected in that era for an entire squad to be eradicated if it means saving one royal blood's life.
-After being accused of a crime, or dishonor at least, they just let her walk over to the Castle to be judged? There's even a port town to the south she could have used to bail with :)
-Kicking her out of the Order doesn't make any sense. Unemployed soldiers are where bandits come from. A demotion for sure, or maybe a suicide mission to "redeem" herself. But just "GTFO", especially during a losing war, never happens.
-And why did they let Ianna go away with the newly exiled Tristian? She's the only claim to power they've got.

If I could write the ending scenario differently, I would have them demote Tristian to private (or similar), then either send her to the equivalent of Siberia (a remote dump where dishonored soldiers are sent) or give her a mission where success is like 0.0001%. Ianna obviously doesn't like this, so before Tristian leaves, she somehow manages to persuade her to flee the country with her. Tristian would object, saying Ianna should stick with Bevidere and the army, but Ianna does something to convince her. It could just be her exercising her force of will for the first time in her life.
At that point, you could use the southern port town as a plot destination or even a dungeon, and then have them formally meet Trabant and use his ship to leave Genoa.

Nitpicks
-Ira's Right and Left sprite have a junk pixel in them.
-Why do the portraits momentarily disappear between each message? Can that be ironed out?
-Is the Metal Gorget supposed to be a Body Armor?
-After battles, can you put the different "Item Found" messages on separate lines? Just makes it more legible.
-Can you get rid of "Optimize" and "Aptitude"? Nobody ever uses them, and it's just more menu to navigate.
-Why am I still paralyzed after a battle? Is the status effect supposed to linger? That sucks.
-A place to heal in the Intro forest would've been nice. Like if we reused the campfire, or found a revisitable herb patch.
-"War Council" is the wrong term for what happened there. There wasn't any strategy discussed or anything. All they did was bully Tristian. Maybe Debriefing or even just Report would fit better.
-After a Game Over, and the demo's end, it crashed when it returned to the Title Screen.

-What are "Odds" in the character stats? :D


Don't forget to clean up that bridge before you close the file on that dungeon.

Sure. I'd be glad to help you out making an overall plot. Geopolitics is another hobby of mine, so I know lots about faction fights, espionage, conspiracy, etc. I can't help with writing dialogue because Valor Emblem, but you know how to handle that part anyway :D

author=Luchino
Oh come on. The forest isn't that hard. >:D But I'll add a heal spot.

The problem was, I had 3 Antidotes and got poisoned 4 times :p

author=Luchino
We're promising to bring you guys something epic by year's end. =)

Yeah. My track record for things like that is great x)