JOSEPHSERAPH'S PROFILE

author=Sooz

Sure she looks like the usual blonde bitch character we see but here, we see someone who might seem selfish but she just wants to live and deep down she .

She... she what? o_O

Well she's blonde, she looks mean at times and dresses fancy, so that's what I think they meant. But yeah that was a little poorly worded XD

I say the game would most certainly benefit from it.
I was very frustrated on Radiant Historia specifically because of that as well, for some reason they thought wasting a turn to cast scan on a game where every turn counts was intelligent, and boy it was absolutely not.
granted, i'm talking about monster resistances / weaknesses and not about skill elements but its a very similar thing. like hiding enemy hp, which is another thing I don't see much point to at this rate. (knowing how much hp the enemies have just opens up for so much strategizing its not even funny)

i've just beat it yesterday actually! and just as I spent a couple' hours optimizing my party to take on the final boss, I beat it and google it to see its tv tropes pge (the best glory of beating a game) when suddenly "NEW RADIANT HISTORIA TITLE ANNOUNCED -1H AGO", which means they probably felt i deserved a reward for beating the last boss or something lol


well, there are a few grips i had with this game but overall it was a fantastic, superb experience and i've analyzed and hopefully learnt a lot of things from it like:

-how it turned 5 towns, 3 roads and 3 dungeons basically into a potentially 60 hour spanning game (i beat it in 25 hours but thats because i used Vanish to avoid every single encounter and get super underleveled to the final boss XD which is super doable btw bc other than skills levels dont provide nearly as much stats as equipment)
anyhow, this whole thing about reusing areas is great for a graphics prick like me who likes to stay a decade polishing the same town and making sure it looks perfect. i think we often start devving with this thought of doing a linear continuous path of places that are never revisited, like, say, Final Fantasy X (my favourite FF)
That being said, the places could have been reused in more exciting and refreshing ways.

~ the tiles. oh the tiles. I know its 3D but there's a LOT i can learn and observe from that and apply to 2D tiles, especially since I've been wanitng to experiment with 32-bit, PSX-ish tiles with high color counts and elaborate textures. The palettes for the scenery in RH are also great, with lots of mystic blues and greens thrown for good measure, soft but organic textures on most objects, distinct palettes that makes each area remarkable like Alistel's teals and greys, granorg's ivory floor... anyway a full plate of visual references

but yeah i cant help but feel the game was really low budget despite all the talent XD the busts had only one expression, seeing the satyr dancer girl scolding Aht with that psychotic smile was... unsettling

places that were burning down were not even tinted, just some fire particles here and there, the field sprites as well were rather poorly animated and lets not get into the spell animations, but even so there's so much to learn from it!
I'm really glad I played this.

faaffsfsfs i keep having new ideas of things i could do with the new stuff aaaa somebody cryogenics freeze me and only thaw me up when this update is out ; - ;

im playing radiant historia and it just gave me SO MANY IDEAS I COULD EVENT UP WITH 2K3 AAAAAaaa

those facesets are lovely! they could use some pixel art-specific cleanup techniques, which i recommend you read on the pixeljoint tutorials section, but i see great potential given practice and iteration :D