Abysm

I'm downloading right now. I'll provide feedback when I have the chance.

One thing that I notice about the game is that every enemy has about 3 turns. It would be hard but manageable if you at least had a defend command. The enemies hit three times, AP takes a few turns to charge, and you weren't very generous with healing items. I know its suppose to be a hard game and for the most part the game is pretty fair. But it would be nice if you made things just a bit easier at the start. My suggestion is make it so that you AP is full healed whenever you charge, but it costs you two turns. I haven't finished the demo yet, but it was just something I really wanted to tell you.

I just recently downloaded your game, though when I tried to play it, my computer froze and had to restart, I have no idea what is in it but can you fix it?

Oh my, this sounds very interesting. Would you like me to review the demo? If yes, would you prefer it be rated or unrated?

Downloaded and tried to play in vain. ther is no font. I can not read anything.

You had me at Dark Souls inspired. Gonna give this a shot.

You've got a good start, but it's pretty rough as it is.

You might want to double check the Knight's Cover ability. Whenever I use it, no cover state shows up on the actor and the enemies seem to ignore the knight, which defeats the entire purpose. That's where most of my issues come from.

Do the enemies have some kind of pattern to predict? It doesn't quite feel like they do. Part of the fun of Dark Souls was learning and adapting to the enemy's attack patterns. Right now, I feel like an enemy is just as likely to attack two different actors as it is to attack the same actor twice as it is to use a powerful skill that is capable of one-shotting an ally.

Those class info snippets under the status menu would be much better suited for the class selection screen. Until then, I can't really tell the difference between certain classes, like the Pharmacist and the Alchemist.

One script that I KNOW this game will benefit from is a turn order display. When characters can get one-shotted in most encounters, I feel like it's important to know if a character is going to attack before or after the enemy.

Overall, despite my complaints, I see a lot of potential in this project. Good luck in development!

author=ten_blue_egyptians
One thing I keep forgetting to mention (and keep forgetting to mention) is that AA uses an Aggro script. So all battle skills have some aggro to them (Pharmacists even have aggro on their skills and the Cover ability has aggro as well, the most aggro actually) so attacks that may seem random in battle shouldn't really be. I'll do more testing on the Cover ability though.

The aggro mechanic should definitely be a note in the adventurers log, because that would have been really helpful. Good to know about the Pharmacist abilities having aggro!

Also, there shouldn't be any one shotting except for one encounter (skeleton/bat and spider encounter in Catacombs) which I've since fixed (skeleton always boosted attack pre emptively and ALWAYS one shotted). I tried to balance the fights where there was no blatant one shotting out of no where but enemies could leave you at critical HP.

Well... that does still happen. The first time I fought the skeleton, it buffed its attack and then killed my Pharmacist. On turn one. Ouch. The first time I fought the bat trio, all three of them ganked my Pharmacist. Again, on turn one. Double ouch. Granted, both of those instances only occurred once out of the, what, twenty times I fought them, so take that for what it is.

It's easy enough to fix (or rather, work around). Going back to the Cover ability, the activation speed should also be boosted to ensure that the action occurs at the beginning of the round. It kind defeats the purpose of the skill when the Knight is almost always the last one to act in a round due to its low agility.

I wouldn't harp so much on Cover if it weren't for the lack of a guard command. That's not a knock at the game's design, just so you know. I find it interesting that such a basic RPG command has been removed, forcing me to adapt to a new style. However, it does introduce the problem of having more squishy allies getting creamed before I have a chance to set up measures to protect them.

Going back to the Dark Souls inspiration, every time I died in DS, it felt justified. Either I didn't evade properly, or I wasted too much stamina for attacks and couldn't guard. Every death in that game was my fault. Here, if a battle starts, and a Pharmacist is killed (at full health, btw) and I can't even guard? I feel cheated. I don't mind getting my ass handed to me, I really don't. But I want to see how I messed up so I can learn from each death.

Anyway, I hope all this helps! Let me know if I need to clarify something.

Lastly but unrealated, I hope to get some custom sprites/facesets into AA so be on the look out for those!

Oooh! I'd like to see those!

A thing that I have noticed is that when I chose the Assassin class,I had the first skill you get, but the next day when I reloaded my save file, there were no skill (not even under the skill tree), so when I tried clicking on the empty space it came up with a message saying "Script 'Enemy Summons' line 149: NoMethodError occured. undefined method 'ma_call_ally?' for nil:NilClass" I thought that maybe this was some sort of bug that if I restarted the game, it would be fixed. Sadly it was not fixed, so I tried starting a new game and not to choose the Assassin, but instead the Barbarian. The same problem occurred. I was really sad because I was starting to get into this game so if it is something you can fix please do so.

Another thing that should be noted is that the enemies attack twice (which is fine by me), but when fighting a crypt keeper (There is a chest and an enemy next to it). He can boost his, and his allies attack, which would be fine, but it does ludicrous amounts of damage, the enemy could be doing from 8 damage all the way up to 129, which insta kills all of my guys. (Maybe I wasn't supposed to fight this enemy yet, but I don't know) he also has war cry (not too sure of the difference between this and co-operative) again, insta kills anyone he hits.

Also I would appreciate it if the devil statues actually told you how much essence you need because running back and forth seeing if you have enough essence can get kind of...eh.

I think grinding is a necessary element to this game, so I would input some sort of spawn for enemies so they just don't die off, the player needs to level at what they feel comfortable at and have enough essence to buy and or use it however they see fit, but with the enemies die off, it makes the player have to search a lot for another enemy.

As a side note I think it is kind of weird that, despite choosing say the Pharmacist first, you don't have that character as your leader to begin with (nothing really needing fixing, I can deal with it), but other than that I am really liking this game, the combat system is nice and unique enough, I like having the option for choosing "Mars or Venus" when creating my character and having that as an option for their gender instead of having "Male or Female".
I would appreciate it if you could fix the bug previously mentioned and other than that I would love to see what else you add to the game it has a lot of potential! I wish you the best of luck! (p.s....sorry for the long note XD)

-I believe I have the most up to date version available (pretty sure, not one hundred percent though)

-For the Assassin instance, I was underneath one of the first devil statues and when I saved and reloaded the game, the Assassin's skill was gone. For the berserker instance, it happened as soon as I could look at my skills.

-Is that update coming out soon or is it coming out with other fixes and such?

- Yeah...Some sort of tweaking would be nice XD

- Thank you for the information. I think what would make that better is having another option for the Maiden Statue that doesn't heal you or cost essence, but just respawns monsters because losing 10 essence just to grind seems a little...eh. I guess it is fine as it is.

-I know about changing the character it's just that you can't manually change where the characters are, it just moves them up a spot.

-And that should be it, thank you for the information!