MALANDY'S PROFILE

author=Housekeeping
when you've reached a high enough level, the bar will fill up more slowly and, eventually, be removed, meaning no random encounters if you're overleveled.

Beta-tester here. Well, that's news to me... More reason for me to replay!

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Nice, long, informative review! +1

Mr. Angel should be Ms. Angel, IIRC?

Nice review~! Did you go into Hell?

author=Deltree
(Edit) Whoa, more post! In this other case, I might as well make replacement free. You're still somewhat limited because the new item you place has to maintain any existing connections, so it will probably be a higher level item with more pipes (and therefore later in the game) naturally. Does that seem reasonable?

Yeah, the requirement for them to all need to connect is interesting. When I first wanted to replace things, I wanted to swap a Bone for the Water, for +2 DEF, and that was the first square out from the Princess's Source, so directions didn't matter much at that point.

author=NTC3
I mean, when I wrote this ~3000 word review, I certainly didn't anticipate the discussion would be centered on the largely peripheral aspects.

Well, here's something a bit less peripheral then:

I agree with your comments about the QTE and stuff.

More interesting is your notes on Gameplay and Story Segregation. I'm wondering if the enemy density is cause this is a demo and having more enemies allows more turns and more display of gameplay earlier...

Or if it's an abstraction of some kind, where they don't actually kill all those people, but are distant representations of something like their durability, spread out over multiple people... ... If you kill everyone on your first turn, do no more enemies spawn? If more do spawn, then the idea that the battle is abstracted a bit, sort of works, like the enemies getting more into the fight and doing more attacks and stuff. Realistically, combat is Rocket-Tag Gameplay, but in the battles, both player characters and enemies both have more durability and might not be a accurate representation of what's actually happening.

Although, the Bandit Leader not talking is strange? Or maybe banter is exchanged, we just never hear it? Meh.

The enemy count being so high is the only reason why rows and columns matter, otherwise, it'd be like an RPGMaker RPG, with all your enemies in one row, and attacks not having their depth matter or something?

Oh, I got a Skyborn Water, already, so I didn't notice it was a free item. ... Although, you are forced into where you place your item, and you do use up a level, no? Not sure, personally.

... Is SHIFT as walk instead of run noted in the tutorial? Else, I think I missed it... Ah well, it's not like it makes the game/demo unbeatable...

author=Cap_H

author=Sated
I can only assume you're terrible at RPGs if you think that the battles in this game are intense =/

Intense doesn't mean difficult.

... What does intense mean? Full of highs and lows? Like times where your party's almost wiped out, and then you pull a dramatic comeback, reviving everyone and defeating the foe?