ANIMUS'S PROFILE

Download is now updated with the fix that allows you to synthesize things; odd how it worked in test-play but not after the game is compressed. Either way it should work fine for everyone now.

As for the suggestion, there's already quite a bit of things going on in battles that confuse less genre savvy people; I wouldn't want to go into feature overkill. Right now the features are a bit cluttered in the menu, but as of the game I believe it's a good amount of things to do in and outside of battle. Not to mention you already get to use skills from monsters and materials from them that are used to create items, so there are already things implemented that are very similar.

You're definitely right about the cues; I always told myself that we needed more games in a similar setting; the ability to talk to monsters was also derived from the older games in the series.

As for the defensive options, it's not the wisest to use them during boss battles as in the beginning of the game a character's EP is not high enough to use them more than once at a time (unless it's Defend/Focus). Defend/Focus is a great starting choice since they also negate and cure any status effects that might be thrown at the party. I plan on making some of Sampson's stuff more predictable, if only to make the commands more viable. This is definitely something I'll be doing in future boss fights.

I totally agree about the main menu; there will most likely be a custom menu option in the future that deals with a lot of them, so players don't have to navigate in what might be uncharted waters which'll overwhelm some people.

I'm glad you enjoyed the characters! To be honest, although the prologue is long when comparing itself to RM games, I wanted to give something that throws the player into the action, kind of like how FF7 did things. Chapter 1 will showcase a lot more story and character content and will show what's par to the course in the game's other chapters.

There will definitely be more to come; I may stop my final demo at Chapter 1 so the game doesn't become episodic, yet still showcasing what the game has to offer. I'll also be working on the prologue a bit more to give more information among other things that need fixing. One thing I'm thinking of doing is to just give the players Defend on Brandon and Mei, while giving Focus to Karen, and making the other commands in this demo + extra defensive commands unlockable.

The download has been updated, the difficulty has also been toned down so now anyone can pretty much jump into it; strategy is still very much important.

The player also has more elemental attack choices.

Hey thanks a lot! I'm glad you enjoyed the game; there will be more where that came from, by them and by similar artists like them, so perhaps you'll find something new as well.