AVEE'S PROFILE

I finally beat it.
The game is fairly long with lots of rooms to explore and items to find. There's a Boss Rush mode later on that can reward you with good equipment and there's one secret dungeon you can explore after you find a hidden room in the game's final area.
The game pays tribute to several details found in the post Symphony of the Night Castlevania titles.

Overall the game is enjoyable although I couldn't help but focus on several frustrating little things that come off as design mistakes:

-The Trade System is poorly executed: You can trade materials for specific equipment at Alexander's Shop. However, gathering the materials is a grind and depends on getting lucky with the enemy troops encountered and the drop rates. Some of the later items for trade also require several copies of the same materials, and some of the Boss-dropped materials can't be found again. I traded two of those for an early item and found myself incapable of getting the top tier armor later on, which turned out to require those rare materials as well. And last but not least, most of the weaker trade items can be found later on in the dungeons, so using the Trade Shop is often pointless anyway.

-The Level Up system forces you to grind and doesn't account for enemy strength: Every enemy troop gives 1 Exp and you gain one level per area once a specific threshold has been reached. Whether the randomly-selected enemy troops you face are weak or strong, you still get 1 Exp per fight. As you progress further into the castle, you're likely to fully explore areas without beating the required amount of enemies to level up, and so you'll be forced to grind near a Save Room if you want to become stronger. The grinding becomes a little less tedious once you find decent Damage All abilities though.

-The Orb Spells seem generally less effective than Sub Weapons and Potions, especially in the later parts of the game, and they are likely to be useful against bosses only because enemy troops are random. Only the Master Orb, allowing you to use every Orb Spells, can fix this issue but it is made available too late in the game to be of any use.

There's also a game breaking glitch that will force you to reset the game: If you go down a flight of stairs by walking onto the uppermost tile of said stairs, you may get stuck in a wall tile at the bottom of the stairs.

Thanks Liberty!

I don't know if Irog is still online at this hour though... I can't submit the game to the event, so I'll post the link in this message:
https://rpgmaker.net/games/9333/downloads/

Why not end the event at midnight on the 31st? I think that many of us could use the extra Sunday to polish or finish our submissions.

I haven't played the game but I think you answered the question yourself: Sometimes lots of horrible things happen for no apparent reason, and sometimes we don't understand what's going on. Life can be like that.

Babymetal isn't the weirdest Japanese metal band around (Ladybaby, Deathrabbits, Fruitpochette, BiSH, Passcode, etc.) but it's the best and most successful of them.

By the way, it's unfortunate that Ladybaby disbanded recently. I'm not a huge fan of death growls but their live shows were crazy fun.