LITTLE WING GUY'S PROFILE

...And then Mary proceeds to walk off, going right up a wall and through the roof, lost to the realms of tileset passability forever.

RIP Mary.

I can definitely muster up at least one unnecessarily long review. I'm in.

author=Dyluck
By the way, how are you finding the difficulty level? If it seems too low, I actually just updated the download to a newer version 2.078 where it's tweaked up a little. Your current saves are fully compatible and can be copied over. It sounds like you're playing at a fast pace so I dunno if maybe it's not an issue for you, but lately I've been watching some players who are "fight everything / do everything" type of players, who got really strong, so the fights seemed to end up being a bit too easy for them.

I think the best way to answer your question is to say that it's not hard. It's certainly not too easy, but it has sort of a fake difficulty in that enemies (especially bosses) have a lot of HP. I haven't yet encountered a game over, and I've only used a handful of revival items. It's a pleasurable kind of difficulty, but I wouldn't mind it scaled up a little.

I do think Mages that have spells that damage all foes outweigh any other physical based character though. You also don't really mix up the troops very well, as in battles will only have one enemy copy pasted three times so there isn't much choice on who you focus on.

author=Dyluck
Hey LWG thanks for playing and for the feedback!

Yeah, the dialogue can sound a bit stiff at times, especially with the first few characters being generally more serious. At first, I was kind of supposed go with a more high fantasy/formal type of speech, but the game ended up more JRPG in every other aspect, so the dialogue sort of ended up somewhere in between, in a bit of no man's land.

As for their personalities, well... it's a complex issue but... let's just say I wouldn't be surprised if you don't sympathize with some actions of the main chars =)

Or if you just mean that their personality isn't fleshed out enough, then yeah it would've been more ideal if I could've spend a little more time with that too. I will say though that some more of their personalities can be seen through some flavor texts in talking with some NPCs.

I think it could be a combination of both honestly. As I said, the game has a really good flow to it, you're never in one area for too long and you're never stuck in some overly long cutscene - both good things!

I just think some of the character motivations, possible conflicts and interesting dynamic between personalities are sacrificed in that process. I was expecting that Moshran and Petranor were going to become rivals/enemies because when you look at their base ideals they shouldn't get along - it was really hard to see why they were friends in the first place. For all I know, maybe that does happen, as I'm only about 5 hours in now I think. At the moment everyone is sort of skipping along happily hoping for immortality (which if you've played a game like Lost Odyssey is actually a really scary and sad lifestyle).

I have spoken to a few NPCs, but after I realised NPCs with quests have an arrow on there head AND you can't go inside buildings I think my interest of exploring towns sort of vanished. Anyway, please don't take any of this to heart - as someone who briefly played the original Legends of Illarion, you have improved leaps and bounds and you should be proud of yourself for making and finishing this game.

So I sat down and played this for about an hour last night, I wasn't sure if I was going to enjoy it or not, but I've seen it pop up quite a lot.

It does feel a little slow in the beginning, and some of the dialogue is a little childish for my personal taste but I actually really love the honest, RPG Maker feel this game has. I don't think I'm going to explain this very well, but I think it captures the spirit of an RPG Maker game and it feels like a passion project that kept your vision.

The battle system is really dynamic to watch too, I do think the voices are overkill though.