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Though, if there's no potions, how does one heal in the first place? I'm thinking too much.

Player 2 has a healing spell and player 1 has a resurrection spell, the perfect match :)
Also there are health drops from the crates, and the players have very HIGH HP
I want to make it so that the player doesn't care much about his HP and focuses more on killing the boss using different tactics depending on what circumstances they are facing

EDIT:

Imagine a game with gameplay similar to Pocky Rocky (Super Nintendo)

With bosses from Contra 3 (Super Nintendo) on Hard mode

With spell from Final Fantasy 12 (Playstation 2)

That clears things out?

Ok. About the crystal thing, I have already started on a boss battle like that.
Like my inspiring IRC person, Rhyme said "Your only limit is your imagination."

You haven't finished it yet have you?
Would love to see it when it's done! :)

So the player defeats the first form, then there's a cutscene where the boss hops into a mech, and we go into form two. That's a plan!

Exactly, that's what I plan to do.

Though there was a statement about having multiple forms before, but maybe that's for a different boss?

He has many forms, one of his forms is where he is inside the robot. Though it's not his last form.

Personally, I suggest having the floor break away at some point during the fight, forcing the player to fight the boss in free fall. Ever since Gandalf and the Balrog I've always found falling battles to be quite impressive.

That is a bit complicated, but I can think about it. Added to my ideas board.

I guess it depends on how much is healed, but if the boss restores, say, half it's health, we're talking more of an "annoying" battle than an "epic" one. Then again, this idea is something players hate as a general rule.

Obviously I won't make the boss heal to half HP
It will be a lot lower than that, probably 1 health gauge per long turn, which would only make the battle about 5-10 minutes longer than usual

Not that this kind of boss has never been seen before, but I've not seen it implemented in an RPG Maker game. There is also the problem of how it can be implemented. As far as I know, there is no way to do this. However, my overall knowledge is limited.

You have never seen it implemented in an RPG Maker game?? lol
That's amazing good news for me, time to innovate don't you think?
Yes it is possible, and it's really easy.

Am I reading this right? A constant "poison" effect (one that requires a very specific remedy at that) during a fight against a boss? See, this is why players hate status-based bosses. Think about it. Not only is the player taking damage from the boss, but poison damage on top of that. This also assume players have a decent supply of a remedy. What if players don't find any? What do they do? 90% would probably quit in frustration.

Relaaaaaaaaax
I didn't say anything about POISON and DAMAGE.
It will be like Resident Evil Outbreak (if you ever played it)
It is just a way to make the battle time based, I don't want the player to make the battle last forever if he wants to, I will make so that the player can 100% cure the virus, but from time to time. This gives a little distraction from the boss, and it will not be "constant". You will have like a Virus Gauge and it will very very slowly increase with time, after quite a while it becomes another colour, which means you will have plenty to time to heal yourself and player 2 as well, the only problem here is getting to open the crate and get the elixir. This gives time for the boss to prepare some special attack.
I hope you get it now, It won't be as harsh as you though.

So not only can players essentially waste half their resources just to survive (from the sound of things)

Forget RPG Maker template battle system, my game will be Action battle system with 2 players, and there won't be resources to use, like potions and stuff, so forget it.
All you gonna need to kill the boss is skill and help from a friend (2 players)

but the boss can escape. This makes whatever effort the player put forth feel useless. This idea is so bad, it's not even funny.

My bad! Yeah this idea is so bad, let me change it.
So the new idea here is that the boss can't really escape, it will be a cutscene showing the boss trying to escape and getting into his robot. The player will have to kill the robot for sure, so there is not way you can catch the boss, it's just that there will be a cutscene showing the escape.

Thanks for the reply and the feedback Marrend
Hope u like it

Lost Dimension: 30 Days
I've been making unfinished 2 player games for ages, there are many projects that I threw away because they were incomplete and I couldn't be bothered to progress them
my best game I think was the one where the main character was an Eskimo, you had 30 days to play this game, its like the game has its own countdown, and everyday that passes you must complete a task, or something bad happens. Really awesome, I remember the crystal cave that I made, was one of my best maps at the time :)

EDIT:

I figured it out, nevermind :D

author=Marrend
I'm still trying to understand why "complete a quest" or "gain a level" is an inherently "good" action. I mean, if you get a quest to kill innocents, and in the process you level up, the morality system in-place says that the end result of that task grants "good points".

That is, if I'm reading things correctly?

Quests will be only stuff like:
1. Talk to NPC
2. Do what NPC said
3. NPC gets happy, and you get respected
4. Getting respect is good, therefore gives you GOOD points.

Gaining levels means that you get stronger, upgrading yourself is good.
Therefore, you get GOOD points.

Everything that is meant to be a good thing, gives you good points
:)