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Worth noting: This is the RPG equivalent of a fighting game boss that reads your input to block.

It's cute on paper but it is remarkably unsatisfying to play against. No one likes being 100%, perfectly countered with nothing they can do about it. Imagine a FPS where enemies are perfectly accurate, or--more relevantly--trying to beat a modern chess AI. It isn't fun. Don't put these in your game.

In a game that uses this, all you do by equipping the Fire Shield is make enemies target someone else. There's no point in making any character beefier than normal, because that makes enemies target the next ally down. You can't have frail healers, because they will be focused down. And above all else, unlike any action game where you can overcome these issues with good positioning and reaction time, in an RPG you are purely at the mercy of enemy attack rolls.

I strongly encourage anyone who read this and thought, "Wow! My game needs this!" to fully rethink why they are making a game in the first place.

author=Adon237
that sort of risk discourages demo releases imo, which makes the feedback process needlessly difficult to go through

Thank you for putting what I wanted to say in to words.

There's also the issue that different users are going to offer wildly varying levels of criticism or tolerance.

There are people who can play through FFX without being annoyed by the UI or the voice acting, because they are either unfazed by such things or because they derive enough enjoyment elsewhere (cough blitzball cough) to overlook the game's flaws. Scores are probably even more flawed, in that regard.

Perhaps reviews should be given a 200-character tagline, much like game profiles have.

author=Max McGee
It honestly depends how much traction this idea gets.

At present, I'm not planning on it.

Oops, I hope I haven't started a landslide.

As far as revising previous reviews. I'd only do so if you go back and find that a given game has a "more definitive" version than what you played. If the version you reviewed is still the version being downloaded, no edits are necessary. You're explaining whether or not that demo is worth the player's time.

I think my irritation here had less to do with the principle of reviewing demos than it did with the idea that I hadn't updated the download fast enough to excise the faults mentioned before it was reviewed.