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Thanks for taking my review well and sorry if it comes off as a bit harsh; the game definitely needs work, but it has some neat ideas which could work well once you get the balance down.

Thank you for the kind reply, your game demo was very enjoyable and I'm glad to know that the battle system will be getting an update in the future. Good luck and have fun in college!

Thanks for the fast reply and it's good to know that the save system is fixed and that Chapter 2 picks things up. Clareain Christopher's advice of making clutter items possible to walk on is a great idea since it keeps the more 'natural' look to some of the maps while eliminating the 'unnatural' problem of waiting on a frog to move out of your way.

It also seems like you're on the right track since you mentioned that you're figuring out what does and does not work as far as the systems go; finding out what works and fine-tuning it definitely should take place over adding more actual content since it will save a lot of time later. One suggestion I'd have is to try limiting the party size to the 6-8 range since this would let you use bigger portraits to remove a lot of the 'clutter' during combat while still allowing room for party experimentation. I mentioned it in the review, but the HP bars showing when enemies are hit and Rhen saying something when an enemy is low on health are both nice, but you probably should stick to one or the other; I prefer Rhen's message since I like a little mystery as to just how close to dead an enemy is, but either system is fine.

Well, good luck on your game, I'll go try out 2.2 soon and will get around to editing this review so that it no longer mentions the save bug within a day or two.

Thanks for the fast reply, your game is very fun other than the oozes and the fifth boss not dropping its sword.

I thinking reducing the chance to 'miss' when fighting them and either reducing their health to the 3-5 range or just making them take significantly more damage from one of the damage types (piercing would probably make the most sense especially since the pierce-based spell is near the beginning of the sixth dungeon) would probably help a lot since the main issue is it usually takes 30-40+ rounds to kill a single ooze without a bomb.

As for the fifth boss, I think what may be going on is it might be set as the equivalent of one of the normal plant enemies (and therefore has their loot table), just with a different sprite and name. The reason I think this is not only because of its lack of drops, but also because it doesn't hit very hard and usually goes down after one attack. Also, I didn't mention it in the review because it's not all that important, but for some reason the room that particular boss is in allows you to run around even though everywhere else in the dungeon (and in the game) you can only walk.

Thanks for responding to my review (and sorry if I came off as overly-harsh on the grammar), but just to be clear, I didn't have a problem with "we're" since I agree contractions sound more natural. The phrase in question was "we're are", which would mean "we are are" and the complete sentence is "We're are counting on you guys..." and is said by a random NPC shortly before Dorias and Moriaty go into the mine.

As for its/it's, I meant sometimes it's (contraction form for 'it is') is used when its (possessive form without the apostrophe) would be correct and vice versa. However, as I mentioned in the review, it's a common grammatical error which is easy to make and isn't really a big deal.

There were also a few oddly-placed apostrophes in other parts of the cutscene where the crowd is outside of the mine at the beginning, such as when an NPC says "Yeah, we have right's" even though 'rights' shouldn't have an apostrophe because it is neither possessive nor a contraction.