BACKWARDS_COWBOY'S PROFILE

My brother just upgraded from Windows 7 to 10, and so far it's working fine. It boots faster, and the new web browser that replaces Internet Explorer rivals Chrome in terms of speed and appearance. I'm probably going to switch from 8.1 to 10 today or tomorrow and see how it works on my laptop compared to my brother's super computer.

I now have available:

Coin Crypt (Steam) Claimed by RMN member.
Outland - Special Edition (Steam) Claimed by RMN member.
Screencheat (Steam)

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And add Last Quest IV to the completed list.

The battles in this are actually pretty well balanced. The skillsets for the heroes are pretty well built and each skill has it's uses. There was a cheese skill, though - the MP healing one. Outside of battle you just fill up mage girl with MP using the skill, restore everyone else's MP then restore her own again. Made it so that you didn't have to use Mana Leaves except in battle. That might be by design, though, since Mana Leaves only fill up 20 MP (about the same amount as the skill).

Story-wise I enjoyed it. It was simple but good for what it was with a few tongue-in-cheek parts. I quite liked it all up. The only real issues I can pick on is that dungeons seemed really short, and the ending felt cheap (though I did smirk at it).

There was a bug that I found - talking to Mayor Dad again will net you another five potions. Being the cheap person that I am, I filled up on free potions, then sold them off so I wouldn't have to grind for money. Because I could. ;p

Overall, I thought it was a pretty good little game. Kudos!

I'm glad it went over well. I wasn't sure how it would do since the story did get a little weird towards the end. As for the MP skill, it resulted from some Play Tests where I tested out the game at under-leveled and over-leveled levels, and somebody playing under-leveled would effectively be wiped out by bosses once their MP ran out. I had considered making it user-only, but it wasn't the mage who kept running out of MP.

The ending was kind of a cop-out since I wanted to add more to the game, but ran out of time due to other commitments and simply because the time I had spent on just the 30 minutes game indicated that I wouldn't have time to go a full hour. I figured a joke ending was better than no ending.

As for the potions, I'll probably fix that at some point but they only sell for a couple gold so even maxing out on free potions wouldn't get your full party the best equipment in the game.

I'm really glad it did well, especially since it's the first fully playable RM game that I've actually finished.

The Mana Khemia branch of the Atelier series featured maps that incorporated platforming, and where you also collected resources from fishing spots, plants, mining rocks, etc. The resource gathering was as much a part of the game as the battles, since the entire premise of the game is alchemy.

Final Fantasy XII was a seamless flow of environments where the battles took place in semi-real-time as you traveled through massive landscapes. It was set up like an action/adventure game with RPG stats and formulas. If you disabled the "pause when selecting an action (Wait/Active)", it became real-time.

I usually put way more emphasis on the maps if I'm not racing against a deadline, since that's what people are going to see regardless of whether or not the game even features battles, and screenshots of maps are a bigger draw to a game than screenshots of a front-view battle system with menus.