KEL'S PROFILE

The bugs are since fixed I assume, so you can check it out if you want, but I'd wait until it's finished. I usually leave a review for the consumer when there's enough to really go on. The demo takes a little less than an hour, but is about 1/3 done from what I could tell.

You'd at least get a feel for what the game will be offering.

I mean the place she was taken from was called Minerva, but yes I mean Vene or the Lady in Blue as she's called at that point.

She doesn't start out with any BP using moves, so it'd make sense to not give her AP. It definitely would help to point out in-game, or have the script edited to let you use notetags to hide AP results for certain characters who don't actually gain any.

I figure both sides are corrupt at the core, full of members who aren't actually the stereotypical evil on both sides. I do agree that trying to shoehorn the dwarven and elven meetings would be problematic to the main plot you're trying to show. At the very least having them slowly come into view instead of having a racial party balance will be a unique use of the high fantasy elements. Usually, they'll slap one of each race into the main team at the beginning. When you name dropped a specific dwarf and elf, I assumed it would be the same here until I was introduced to Lucan and Lila.

I remember when debating whether or not to use the PVGames tiles, the biggest thing for me was passability, and how you need a two tile buffer when determining whether or not a player can walk under something. You can get a fluid run speed by using full running frames and changing the default run speed a bit so it doesn't look like the character is running in place.

And no problem on the feedback/tips, I can tell that the game will be quite interesting when finished, and I'd love to play through the rest when it is.

I figured you had the sprinting in place so I couldn't just quickly walk past all those poor slow enemies. Making all of them more aggressive however might make players who want to avoid some of them pull their hair out. It's not an easy balance, for sure.

It's cool that your friends are helping out with the game as well; when I made games with friends we didn't care about mapping at all. For the longest time empty RTP maps were the norm in my stuff.

There's definitely the potential for a really interesting story in there from what I saw, so I look forward to seeing where you go with it.

It took me nearly 17 hours to complete the game, and that was with fairly liberal grinding in the beginning. After that though I didn't grind unless you count going through both paths to look for chests and dolls grinding.

I understand the difficulty you're going for though, and honestly it's working fine so far, though I doubt everyone would agree with me. My own game is going to be hard as hell (so I may be biased) without it being damage based. By that I mean enemies whittle you down through strategy instead of damage output against our poor heroes.