Hey there peeps, Jaymonius here with some updates and discussions about the state of Phantasia 6.

Lemme say first that I have been making some good progress on the game after a couple months of being away from it due to lack of motivation, but I try to balance the spriting and the game making to help inspiring me to keep moving forward.

NOW THEN!

Finally I got my Element Fusion skill implemented, it took some time and a lot of work arounds but I was finally able to make the Element Fusion. Explanation time.

In Phantasia 6, as the character profiles explained, you will be getting the incarnates of the Elementals that helped you/battled you in the previous Phantasia games, when they join they will have their own diverse set of magic based on said element.

However, the main character, Zack, doesn't have access to any magic. However, he does possess a unique ability to fuse with the other incarnates and inherit their magic.

Before Fusion =>After Fusion
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They will also be inheriting some other benefits upon fusing. However, while you do fuse with the character, that also does leave you party of 4 to a party of 3. And should Zack get killed while fused, both him and the fused will die. So if you think Zack will die and will have a lack of recovery, you can revert the fusion and the fused incarnate will return to normal.

One nifty thing too is that when you do fuse with an incarnate you won't lose a turn doing so, the same applies when reverting. However, keep in mind though that when doing these actions will cost a turn, so if you happen to have a positive status effect, the turns will go faster, but the same can also be said true for negative status effects. (I may have to find a way to fix this, but this is how it stands for now.)

Next on the list of discussions is multiple paths and endings.

Ever since I made Lost Land Ruin VX, I have been liking the multiple path things a lot more, I blame the Shin Megami Tensei series for that really, it was a huge inspiration to do multiple paths in LLRVX in the first place. And the same holds true for P6, where I want to make a Life Path and a Death Path and a... path. I'll leave those three names to your imagination on how they will turn out.

But I do ask, what is yours, the readers, stance on multiple paths and multiple endings? How do you think the concept should be executed, should the player be put back into the beginning once the ending is achieved? Or should they be put back on the beginning again?

I'd like to hear your opinions.

Well, that's all for now, I'll try and pump more progress on the game as the months go by. Toodles.