DYLUCK'S PROFILE

Well, if you have nothing to do and want to practice English, feel free to write a review for LoI2 =)


Lately, I've been thinking about a short story (maybe visual/cutscenes only?) about Bjolmur as a young girl, growing up in a secluded castle, hidden from the outside world, because her parents are afraid she will be discovered. She doesn't know her own powers or what she is exactly yet, so she doesn't understand why she's not allowed outside, and why her parents are hardly ever around too. She's lonely and desperately wants to talk to others her own age, so one day she sneaks out of the castle, and meets a boy, and then....

But I'm still thinking about how to do that story without spoilers for LoI1, and many other problems before I could realistically make this into something.

I think you should force the player to use different team members, like you do in the first chapters :
you can split the team, so that only half the characters are available,
or have someone go on an urgent errand, so that he cannot be picked
you can force someone in the team for a determined place : such as Aragon, Badmosche and Xaveria for Malachin's shrine. The idea of having specific team members track down vilains was very pleasant.

I kind of thought of that before, but I was worried it might be hard to do, because there's a lot I don't remember about how I scripted the "choose party screen", and my logic was very ugly when I made that as a noob, so I was worried that I might create some new bugs if I mess around with it =P I did think of a simple workaround now though, so I'll try again to implement this idea later.

And yeah, it sounds like I should really adjust Complete Diminish. It sounds a little too powerful haha. Was it about the same in the previous versions too?

Hmmm yeah I did lower the speed and the attack of a lot of monsters, and took away some strong skills, so maybe I went a little overboard with that. Is only your main party at lv 70? Or do you mean everyone else too?

It's kind of easier because I intended for the player to use all the characters a little bit, instead of only using the same party all the time. But yeah, I think I will use your idea about giving extra level ups to the lower level characters at the end of each chapter, so that they are all around the same, even if the player doesn't use some of them. That will make it easier for me to balance the difficulty later on.

Hey, thanks for giving me so much detailed feedback as you play through it. I really do appreciate it, and it feels like I get to watch over your shoulder while you play, so I'm more than happy to hear your thoughts and everything =)

Yeah, you really should, but because your version is so old, it would be best if you send me a copy of your save file first so that I can check/fix it for compatibility.

Otherwise, if you want to just try it yourself, I think it'll still work, but you need to reset everyone's SP first before copying your save over.

The biggest difference gameplaywise, is that magic users can use all their skills now, no matter which weapon they equip.

Just to let you know though, I'm about to release a "MP3" soundtrack version by like, tomorrow.

author=Maximax
Programming issuePearl Fox can't be given the harpstring, because the page has a strange condition : "The item Divine Lance must be held. I guess it's an error...
I edited on my own copy so that I can get the top grade !

Oops... harpstring used to be a real item but it got replaced by Divine Lance, and harpstring became just a switch, but I never deleted the "add item/remove item" codes. When I finally deleted it in the latest release, I somehow forgot to uncheck that condition on the page =(