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... but I'm still willing to give the start of a game a little leeway because I know that some developers want to ease non-familar players into their gameplay.

Exactly. In my stupidity, I always forsee someone completely new to RPGs playing the game, so I have to include the "Techs brings up a list of skills you can use on the enemy" and etc.

I wasn't talking about Legionwood Griever. Yes, the ancient version you played was difficult in the start. If you played the current version you'd notice I had to rebalance the opening of the game because (as per the whole point of this current discussion) it's supposed to ease the player in - I just personally like hard RPGs.

Welcome to RMN. I personally hope that when you leave your house you get hit by a bus. Or eaten by wolves.

In one of my games I had the opening areas of the game include monsters that were typically what you'd expect (difficulty wise) from mid game. See, I had made a vast selection of equipment available in the first town and there was a shop that sold ten different skills, so I thought with these things the player would be able to easily use tactics and such to destroy the enemies of the first dungeon.

Instead, I got nothing but complaints that it was "too hard" or that people were overwhelmed. Thus, from then on, I eased off a bit. That's why in Legionwood you fight snakes and things at the start that you can beat by spamming attack, but you also have the AP system available and an arsenal of about five different skills. I've tried to find the balance between "easing the player in" and "too complicated" and I haven't found it yet.

Oh I didn't realise that, I'll just throw it up on Mediafire then. I'd copy it out into this thread but it's about ten pages long... Which is actually quite short when you consider my last "short story" came out at about 35.

EDIT: Done!