WHEELMANZERO'S PROFILE

The Woes of becoming Super Saiyan
It's funny you should mention limiting Rozalin's bat form to once per battle. Since I haven't been able to get her to actually die when her bat form is defeated for the life of me, I was thinking of using the solution you just suggested. Now the only problem is getting the skill sealing state to actually stick.

Instantaneous Demises
Ah yes, the insta-death segments. I had to be careful while creating those sections in order to avoid giving the player a cheap death without warning. I thought they would break up the gameplay, but from a realistic standpoint, Pandora should be able to shrug off having a mountain dropped on her head after all the abuse she's gone through. Of course, this is true of many rpg protagonists. How many of us laughed when Sephiroth's Supernova destroyed several planets, a moon and the sun, only for it to fail to kill a party of plucky young heroes?

Kakuna used Harden! It's super effective!
Creating the various movesets was a lot of fun, particularly Damien's. In the original build of he game, he didn't have last performance or marionette, making him one of the most useless characters in the game. Then me and a friend got to brainstorming and I was inspired to make those two attacks. Now he's easily one of the most valuable characters in the game. In general, I gave the various characters powers I've always wanted to have in an rpg.

Sound Snippets
The voices were a lot of fun to add as well. Albeit tedious fun, but still fun. I managed to stumble across a sound effect resource site that had compiled countless sounds from various games. When I first found it, I felt like a kid in a candy store. I don't know how many hours I sunk into sifting through voice clips, but whenever I found a fitting voice I thought to myself, "YES! That's exactly what I wanted him\her to sound like!" It was awesome.

You got your Assassin in my White Mage!
While it does take some time to build up, Lanith's sadistic lash is easily one of the strongest physicals in the game, especially when she's buffed. I thought having that along with her blistering speed and the ability to heal made her pretty OP. She definitely has her faults, being somewhat of a gimmick character, but I wanted each summon to have certain strengths and weaknesses so that the player wouldn't rely on a single one the entire game.

Umbral Soul Red/Blue Version
I had Pokemon Colosseum in mind when I created Arcfall Colosseum, so you hit the nail on the head there. I'm a sucker for pokemon games, since it was one of the very first rpg's I had ever played. Come to think of it, pokemon blue might've been my first rpg.

Empathetic Evil
To be honest, I didn't have any kind of social commentary in mind when making this game. One thing I did want to do however, was explore the more human side of villains, and how they come to be what they are. I enjoy villains who are evil simply because they're psychotic maniacs or selfish jerks, but in this series I wanted the player to understand the perspectives of both sides of the conflict. I thought being invested in both the heroes and the villains would raise the stakes when they finally clash, as you would have grown attached to both parties. I suppose I did end up making a social commentary though. Often times people become who they are due to their circumstances and how they are treated.