NEOPHYTE'S PROFILE

Making an ambitious product when you're a one man army.

Well to be fair, rpgmaker made half the game for you guys...

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-Spell criticals. There is a chance that spells - including healing spells - will "go haywire," doing about x1.5 damage/healing. The Mage skill path can grant a character a trait that raises this critical rate. It's really fun to see due to a shaking screen and bolts everywhere and yeah
-Block chance. Characters have two "negation" stats - their Evasion and their Block. Evasion is a chance to completely dodge any physical attack (including skills); Block is a chance to completely negate any damage in the game (including spells). It's really fun to see because the game goes slo-mo when your character blocks something
-Multi-action bosses. Some bosses get to move more than once per turn. This sounds simple but it is hella important and used quite well

These are good examples. I don't see how you could bash this, since the first two are good examples of perks to have. They're a lot different than your basic statistic like ATTACK POWER, because I mainly associate them with their presentation (there are stats involved, but that's not the point). With a stat like attack power, there is no visual representation of its impact, so it's a lot tougher to gauge its relevance. The examples above just happen instantly, and the results happen in cool ways that are not monotonous like the attack command, where you see the same animation over and over for 20+ hours of gameplay . Their importance goes up, and their results make you want to have access to those abilities more often (this is so much different than variant damage). You could think of a million other abilities like this, I only see those first two as examples. They aren't the best examples, but they do a good job of thinking out of the box. How you go about giving these perks out is up to you, there are plenty of ways to control this. No matter how bad or good the idea is, it's all about balance.

The idea with multi-action bosses is also a nice idea (I use them). Bosses with reaction commands are good examples of this. If you're using a standard turn-based or atb setup, this does a good job of mixing things up. Rather than the standard "I go, you go" setup, things become a lot more complicated and make the player have to think on different terms. It doesn't just have to be the enemy team, you can apply these to your party as well. If the enemy wants to play dirty, so can you. =)

actually you suck Craze get out. -.-

You would have had more controversy if you put ff13 instead of dq9. Actually, they are both very progressive games.

Very easy to do those features in any dbs rm engine. But do continue. =)

I like touch encounters. Those are nice!

Skie, you can put your battle results...after the actual battle now. No need to do it on the field map. =P