SHORTSTAR'S PROFILE

Before a quest.

This I appreciate, even if I am the only one who screwed it up.

- You're the only one that reported it and you're probably the 4th one to make it there.

I think that if the tower monsters were harder (without relying on mass sleep) it wouldn't matter as much.

- Well lullaby is now half as effective and those that use it now have a generalized attack.

Barbarian, Thief, Grey. It's a powerful team for sure, but I say that the enemies are weaker relative to the team from the goblin cave. In the cave, you have 2 guys for most of it, no spells (I chose poison and cure, didn't have a use for either), and no gear. With the full team and all the armor, they barely get touched and my first three party members deal over 100 damage each (the grey is weaker, but heal is invaluable).

- I guess I'll throw in a heavy hitter. Peaches hit heavier now. I can't think of a new enemy that would fit that theme that would be a heavy hitter.

I think it's less the heal itself than the sleep combo that makes it so aggravating.

- And that is now fixed :-) I even decreased how much lullaby is used.

I remember not being able to find the Farmer and Teenager classes in the academy place. Are they recruited there? ^^|

- No.

So one day has gone by...

3,000 extra page views and 100 extra downloads? Seriously?

I want to know is this accurate? My game has been out like 2 or 3 months, and its gaining momentum like a snowball. I don't think I believe it. Is there a temporary glitch in the website stats?

I really enjoyed the beginning of the game. The goblin cave was quite difficult and I had to think to manage my MP and use strategy and debuffs to handle some of the tougher enemies. I also enjoyed building a party. I liked the large amount of equipment, and really the whole equipment system.

- Finally someone that liked the beginning.

Unfortunately, my enthusiasm fell off a cliff at the tower dungeon. What a mess. The battles are incredibly boring and the encounters far too dense.

- I will work on that.

There is no challenge from these enemies, just boredom.

- I've had people message me the oposite.

There are not one, but two enemy types that put your entire party to sleep, and not one, but two enemy types that heal each other. Several times, I fought guardian angels who would sleep my entire party and heal to full. Though the enemy did poor damage and could never kill me, it just caused me to wait round after round (Oh! One character can attack this round! Oh, no, she got slept before her turn came up...) It was bizarre how different this experience was from the goblin cave, which was challenging.

- Yeah I'll diversify I guess.

I love that you have the encounters visible on the map (ala Lufia II, or Brickroad's game) but the single-file nature of your dungeon mapping makes it pointless. Sometimes, I can sit and wait and maybe skip an encounter, but for the most part the mobs just wander back and forth through a choke point.

- Enemies are blocked off by invisible walls.

Sometimes, after fleeing a battle (like 2 Wind Spirits, yawn) the game instantly puts you back into a battle, even if you are holding the button to run the opposite direction.

- Yeah its iffy.

I made it all the way up the tower, put out the fires, and there was nothing else to do up there. The angel said "thank you!" and there was nothing to loot on any of the three platforms or anywhere else on the top floor. I climbed back down the tower and went back to the mayor for my reward (even though there was no harp to loot) and he said "go up the tower and get the harp". I am NOT going back up that tower, so I guess I'm done with the game.

- Check the floors where the fires were.

Some suggestions:

1.) Make enemy encounters much more sparse, but more rewarding.
2.) Take away mass disables altogether. They aren't fun or challenging. Also take away healing from Guardian Angels, or make it 1/3 as strong. If you are concerned it is too easy, make the enemies do more damage. The Tower enemies are very weak compared to the goblin cave enemies.
3.) After fleeing or winning a battle, let the party phase through enemies on the map for 1 second (other than stationary ones of course)
4.) Open up the map design. Look at Lufia II for a great example of a game that uses your battle system and places the enemies perfectly (Lufia II, btw, is simple one of the best SNES era rpgs, so you should play it regardless). Give the player room to run around if they don't want to fight.
5.) This is extra work, but I would strongly suggest a new battle system altogether - the default one is very boring. Anything with moving graphics (or even better, ATB).

- I'll read these and get back to you when its not midnight :-)

Yes I have the game posted at megauploadz or something or filesend or file factory. Wherever it is.

But... why the game has so many downloads is because I released version 2 five times (V2A, V2B, V2C and so on). When I upload, it never resets the download number. It keeps it going.

Oh and now that I think about it... one person told me that my game was on his site. So I went there, its a giant site like this. I told him I never gave him permission, so he took it down and that was 2 months ago.