Downloading and gonna give it a play, and possibly a review*

*edited LOL

author=KingSangos

author=ClummsyLittleGurl
i have a little problem
at the "Hollow" part (well i don't exactly remember the number of the part so..), when i came inside the shop, and take some items in the box and when downstair, after the dialogue i can't move, so i think that's a bug, do you have any solution for this ?
by the way, can i fanart Veta ? thank you so much :) (i'm not good at English sorry)

Whoops, sounds like you ran into a game-hindering bug. It probably has to do with the event switches. I'll remedy that immediately. But for now, I'd recommend avoiding the shop altogether. :<

As for making fanart for Veta, go right ahead. :)

EDIT: Okay, so the problem actually came from some errors with the movement paths for both Veta and the Shopkeeper. I've fixed this up and will very shortly be releasing a new build for the game, aka BLANK 1.1a.

Thank you so much ! Anyway i have finished my fanart, hope you enjoy <3
http://imgur.com/ylztBHD

i have a little problem
at the "Hollow" part (well i don't exactly remember the number of the part so..), when i came inside the shop, and take some items in the box and when downstair, after the dialogue i can't move, so i think that's a bug, do you have any solution for this ?
by the way, can i fanart Veta ? thank you so much :) (i'm not good at English sorry)

You're very welcome and I'm very glad I could help ^_^

Best of luck! I'll be cheering for you!

That's fine! I can wait to see the true ending ^_^

I figure I may as well give my complete thoughts on the game, or what I've played so far, which I'm guessing is most of it XD

I took a look at this game as it has some of the same inspirations as the current project I'm working on (Earthbound and OFF) and I'm glad I did, as I really enjoyed this. It resonated with me a heck of a lot more than I expected, which is why I was willing to put in so many hours to try to see the true ending ^_^

The storyline has a very nice feel of OFF mixed with a more broad fantasy. The mystery of the corruption along with the lore of the world keeps you guessing, and much like the strangeness of the world in OFF, kept me intrigued and wanting to continue. Veta's not a super complicated character or anything, but she's pretty relatable and the further I went, the more invested I became. The Songweaver battle and the events thereafter were especially potent, and I love all of that.

Some of the villains seemed a bit similar to each other. The conflicts can be broken down into either/or "No I won't help you and in fact you should be destroyed so I'm going to destroy you" and "I'm doing horrific things, you see, and now that you've discovered this, you have to die." This isn't a huge problem, as it works for the setting and the story, but I did feel like it was a tad repetitive.

There was also an issue where plot-important characters would have the same faces as NPCs but with something small to differentiate them. While I felt that this added to the game's charm, it was a bit of an odd choice. I'm not sure if it's good or bad, but it felt different, for sure.

The weakest part of the game is the battle system. This is one of those games where part of me was going PLEASE LET ME TAKE THIS AND COMPLETELY REDO THE BATTLE SYSTEM because there is a lot of promise and good ideas, but the way they're used leaves a lot to be desired. A lot of the battles are just spam attack or the same select few skills. That's a shame as there's a lot of cool ideas you could explore with the characters' battle skills as far as strategy goes. OFF had a similarly attack-mashing battle system, but I don't think that means you shouldn't try for a bit more.

Your spirit companions liven things up, combat-wise, but while some of their abilities are useful, many are not. I found Contasma the biggest disappointment here, as her (or his, I kinda assumed her for some reason XD;) theme has a bunch of potentially awesome battle ideas. Silence the Sky, for example, is wonderful, as it's powerful but silences her, which really gives a risk/reward choice the whole thing, but I can't give that same praise to a lot of her other skills. A skill that paralyzes an enemy but boosts their stats is odd when we already have another spirit with a skill that just paralyzes them, and Complication, which cures all status effects but confuses the ally you use it on, was almost useless as I find confusion is often worse than the ailments you're curing! These problems left Contasma feeling particularly useless, which is a shame, because she could be really interesting in battle!

Another thing that was odd was the game's lack of healing spots or inns, which a few exceptions. Instead, you heal when you level up. This had an odd effect of me checking when a character was about to level up, and then spamming their best special moves, because I knew I was about to get their MP back. You level up often enough that this isn't a huge problem, but it certainly was a little weird in my opinion. Soon after I reached Decillia, my characters started reaching their max level of 20, and no more level-ups meant no more level-up healing, but at that point, there was a place to backtrack to heal to, so no biggie.

The in-game economy, especially, mid and late game, felt really broken. Equipment you can buy past mid-game isn't all that expensive and doesn't boost you up all that much. In contrast, you've put stat-upping consumables for sale in every shop. Early in the game, buying them isn't feasible, but by the late game, you can pretty much break the game by buying them in bulk. On my first playthru, I gave Veta so many Shards of Might that one Shadow Strike could trigger more than one dialog exchange during boss battles! After fighting all the random encounters and Cultists on Mount Orsus, I had enough extra cash to just load up on shards!



On my second playthrough, I did the same, except with the shards that raise DEF and MDF, and made Veta immune to a lot of enemy attacks! So I very much feel like that's a definite problem that needs addressing.

Adding on to that, I didn't notice much in the way of health-restoring special moves, aside from adding Regen to the party. You heal by chugging potions, which, thanks to the broken economy, means you can buy more than you'd ever need.

Bosses felt a little weird, as well. They had some moves that put the pressure on the party, but others that felt a little useless, so it was a bit of a gamble on how difficult any one boss battle would be. I didn't start feeling the pressure until the endgame (but, again, I had boosted my stats with the Shards, so that doesn't help). It still felt like battles hadn't been overly tested and fine-tuned.

Also, this part is spolierific, so I'll put it in a hide-tag:



Okay, I know I've been rambling on and listing a bunch of flaws with the game, but please don't get me wrong. I love this game. That's why I've got so much to say about it, and why I poured hours of playtime in it to try to find the real ending. The strange and engaging story. The simple yet nostalgic tilesets. The cool freaky enemy battlers. The amazing and perfectly fitting music. The intrigue of Veta's journey and the secrets within. It's all fantastic, and I felt very invested in the world and the characters by the end. I enjoyed it all and can't wait to see the ending. You should be proud of what you've accomplished.

That said, I feel like you'd get a lot more people playing with a fun battle system and more balance.

Thanks, and sorry for ranting for so long XD I look forward to seeing the true ending :DDDDDDDDDD

PS: Here's an error I found:

I ran into a problem.