LABYRINTHINE'S PROFILE

author=Clangeddin
Hello there, I think that overall this is a good game. I've seen a lot worse than this.

I like the characters and the balance, the story is not bad, there's a good sense of progression and exploration.

Let me point out a few things that I would change/improve if I were you:

1) A couple of zones have a too high rate of random encounters: The Elven Prison where you go free Dynion the first time and the Abyss room before the northern exit (the one that you need to have the pickaxe to proceed). These two are incredibly frustrating and not in line with the rest of the game in terms of encounter rate, if I were you, I'd make encounters (way) less frequent in those two zones.

2) Bechus gives only 4000 exp. How come? Shouldn't he give 40000 instead? Doesn't make much sense that he gives less than some random encounters and way less exp than previous bosses.

3) The Quizzer boss at the arena is way too punishing for people who are not 100% paying attention to the lore of the game and skip some text or don't explore everything. You may want to change that "Wrong answer" from an instant kill to something that just makes the fight harder, but still possible.

4) This has probably been pointed out already, but characters that follow you trigger failure in certain puzzles (like in the Elven Palace, that was place was a nightmare because of it). This is especially troublesome for The Ice Giant field treasure chests if you don't get them right away but return later with 4 party members, I know it's still doable, but I don't see why I should be penalized for that. If I were you I would either make the followers "untouchable" or just remove their sprites altogether and have only Garic's. It would make things a lot less painful.

5) I've been in two situations where I saw messages from characters that were not there.

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During the fight against Armagen's Aspect to free Ann from the nightmare in the abyss, a message from Windir pops up saying that there's no time to waste, however he was not in party. Also, when I got out of the abyss the first time, and returned to the human town where the former arena champion lives, while speaking to an NPC that says "may the fire god bless you" I got a reply from Dynion, even though he wasn't in party either (at the time he's in the hall of madness).

A final plight to help me finish the game:

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I'm currently stuck at the halls of mirror in Armagen's Castle and I really have no idea what to do to progress though. Unless you give me the solution or a strong hint to it, I don't think I'm gonna finish the game, because I've been at hit for 30 minutes and still can't manage to understand what I need to do to get past this spot. I suspect that only someone who has played Labyronia 1 (I didn't) will easily understand what each character relates to.

But overall, I have to say that I enjoyed this game, and I thank you for making it and providing me a few hours of enjoyment, cheers!

author=Firefly84

author=Labyrinthine

author=Firefly84
Managed to get into Solthurn Tower, but the puzzle with the black hexagrams is very frustrating, because you have to get all four characters around them.
Why can't you be teleported back to the beginning of the floor instead to the floor before the first hexagram-puzzle? I managed to get to the third stage of this puzzle, but the middle of this floor is impossible to master.
Or just make the last 3 Charakters untouchable or invisible for the hexagrams (similar would also help with earlier puzzles).

And is it wanted that the etheral sleep instandly kills? With bad luck the whole party could be killed with one attack.

The hexagram thing is HARD, admittedly. To be honest, I have troubles making it through that third part myself without supreme frustration. However, it is possible. You just need to think very carefully how to move that "chain" of the party.
Thank you for playing my game :)

I'm handycapped and not so fast with reflexes. And when you have to do the whole puzzle again and again, it's extreme frustrating. In the middle of the third stage I tried to move to the side as soon as possible, but it didn't work. And then you have to do the other stages again...
Perhaps you admit saving everywhere in this puzzle or teleport back to the beginning of the stage (not the beginning of the puzzle).

The game itself is very good.
The first labyrinth is huge but the "treasure" pointing isn't helpful because it shows you max. 3 (empty) chests. I think I got every chest, but I can't be sure.