Outlaw City

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The antagonist of this story, more or less, Sahra's history is less shady than it might seem, although her future more murky.

Uh, you mean PROtagonist, right? I'd assume this was just a slip/typo except you make the same mistake in the next sentence. (I am playing this now.)

Ha, wow, yeah, used the wrong word there. This IS like 5 years old and my first game, I probably had them backwards at the time. :3

ps. You shamed me into fixing up the messed up text a little, been meaning to do that for a long time.

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I am going to review this very soon.

I just stopped playing because I couldn't beat the basically unbeatable master lancer. : (

If I review the game now, how much of it will I NOT have played? I don't know how much is left past the point where I got stuck.

Durf durf durf. Maybe I should just lower the difficulty level. Since you made that a feature (!!!).

But....my pride...

Master Lancer? That's not the optional female boss in the Knight's castle, right? (She's supposed to be super hard.)

Edit: To be fair if I had an unencrypted finished version of this left, I'd take every enemy and reduce their HP by like 25% at least - the normal enemies anyway. Sadly I don't have a finished version except one I started working on, edits I didn't plan to finish~

If you'd like I could probably find a version and fix the battles a bit and you could play/review that?

D-DOUBLE EDIT: Found the enemy, not the one I was thinking of. If you get bored can you send me your save? I'd actually like to give it a go and see what I was inflicting on people. ps. You're actually missing quite a bit of the game, probably at least 2/3 or more, along with the final party member.

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Shit. That much left? (It's not that I'm not enjoying the game, I am, I just have so many games to review.)

I'll just lower the difficulty and give this another go. You can lower the difficulty mid-game, right? I assume that's what's meant by a dynamic difficulty system or w/e.

Edit: To be fair if I had an unencrypted finished version of this left, I'd take every enemy and reduce their HP by like 25% at least - the normal enemies anyway. Sadly I don't have a finished version except one I started working on, edits I didn't plan to finish~

I was going to recommend either this or making the heroes do more damage in my review. When I have specifically chosen the direct damage abilities like Flame Blast and Nether Combo and Beam Pillar and spent my CP maxing out their damage...and they are still hitting for like 25% of the damage of some regular enemies and far less for bosses...on normal...not good.

Yes, difficulty takes effect instantly.

You can always go finish the other games first and worry about this in another few years or something. ;3

Okay, new Blog added, but:

1. This should be a lot less painful to play now! (ie. Enemies DIE FAST and your powers feel like SUPER POWERS now)
2. To get the chest in the flooded sewers, once you get into Gen Corp, there's a basement room where you can turn off the flooding! :)
3. Skills shouldn't really be redundant with the exception of a few like Proto's 4 elemental blasts (same attack and stats, just different elements)

The flows you have there sounds pretty good; thoughts:
1. Sarah looks solid like that, notes:
- Her Dark Absorption skill is a great AOE Hate skill, you can, in the first round with it's stamina cost lowered, pull the hate of every enemy.
- Provoke ADDS stamina now, so it's like a Charge skill that also lets you ensure hate from an enemy.
* But both of those are only handy if you're using her as a tank, I do that since it lets me use Proto to quickly buff just one person with shields
2. Mystic looks good, but:
- Molten Earth is great to launch before a Beam Pillar, Lighting Strike, Nether Combo, or other multi-hit skill since it's "No Evade" means none of the hits ever miss while they're affected.
- Dusty + Flash (on the most dangerous foe) will give you enough Stamina now to do just about any second skill.
- Arcane Spear stacks with Flash and Dusty so you can really debuff a foe
3. Dark:
- Lighting Storm can be hard to use since you need to fully buff the Stamina Cost on both Darkened Sky and Storm, but if you do that skill will finish basically ANY random encounter in one turn (of course you can do it just about as quickly with your other patterns) - Darkened Sky stacks with all of Mystics skills, so it leaves enemies missing a LOT. :)
- Charging to get stamina for skills and then using them for Beam or Backlash is a solid method.
- The Dark Absorb (I think? the one that buffs health) is also a very powerful single-hit skill and helps if she draws too much hate.
4. Proto:
- Barriers can be really handy but have a recharge, still, the group one can give you breathing space in a tough boss fight
- I love Shields because while they're active the HP % skills (like 1/2 HP, etc) are only half as effective (so 1/2 HP becomes 1/4 HP - HP to 1 skills still do their normal effect though!)
- Her enhanced ARE awesome, especially a Force on right before Beam Pillar, etc (stacking Dark Absorption, Nether Force, and Cellular Enhancement with Force Enhancement right before a Dark Release/Nether Combo can give really high damage, especially with a Molten Earth to ensure no "Dodges")

"Damage" and "Accuracy" ARE:
- useless on self or team-buff skills like Dark Clarity, Cellular Enhancement, Recovery Aura, and the Charges (and almost all of Proto's skills)
- "Accuracy" does help on Dusty and Darkened Sky
- "Stamina Cost" doesn't help skills with no Stamina cost

If I had time I'd have put in markers to disable the useless bars for some skills. :/

Fonts should all be "Arial" or "Tahoma" I believe, hope you enjoy it and hope you can get the menu text working again!