WONDERSLIME'S PROFILE

author=bahamutkai
Thank you so much ^^ I like this game very much.

Oh, my pleasure. I'm glad you're enjoying it! Let me know if you're having trouble with anything else and I'll do my best to help you out. Good luck! :)

Cool, perfect. The next version won't be up until May or June, likely, so don't expect anything for at least a little while. Exams and end-of-semester details to deal with first! I appreciate it, Firefly. :)

Thank you so much for this huge list of helpful suggestions and amazing catches. "Miles" as the default for the post-game rematch... is a pretty insanely particular detail for you to notice. I appreciate your patience!

Some last adjustments and information for you:

You're the second person to have issues with the Golden Claw. One of my best friends and first playtesters wandered the world with a terrible encounter rate for hours without at all realizing why - and this wasn't really my intent at all. Looking at it now, I agree that it's too easy to stumble upon the Claw without having read the one book in the world that warns you against it. The Golden Claw is found on a pedestal in the Dark Cave, and I've inserted an automatic message when you approach it for the first time:

"Ye who would take this treasure of olde, be
forewarned. Monsters crave the item within and
shall be drawn to whomever would dare to
remove it from this place.

To wander the world, forever to fight, never
an end to this plight until the moment it is
finally given up. Such is the curse of the
Golden Claw."

This seems like at least a reasonable compromise and serves as a heads-up, at least.


I have updated the dialogue for a couple of characters, based on what you noticed about Hammy! That girl now hints that Hammy finds items more effectively after battle, and then also hints that the special monsters at Elderwood may drop rare items.

It's a good point about that choice you mentioned above and the level thing might be a preference: Originally, one choice was really meant to be a "challenge" route over the "canon" route of forging on with the more familiar party. I will consider this going forward. I also modified that room so that the Outside spell automatically re-enables when you leave through either door, neither of which you can access until "That Scene" is through.

I just verified - Demonite Prodigy has a 1/8 chance of dropping a Brimstone Marble, which by that point is only really useful for selling. It also has a 1/8 chance of dropping Mystic Acorns. It is likely that you were unlucky here, unless I'm missing something obvious (which is quite possible).

Great catch on Rubiss' explosive attack, which is now classified as an Explosive attack rather than a non-elemental attack. This was certainly not intended to be non-elemental.


Fantastic. On top of all of this, I have a couple of tweaks that I made to the Return spell, which I modified and then accidentally broke (and I think I've repaired now). I'm sort of in the midst of a final playthrough to catch anything else, and will probably release a Version 1.01 sometime in the spring, updating the download link. I've been so impressed by your feedback and suggestions that I will be mentioning you in my updated credits. Thank you so much.

In the end, I'm really glad that you enjoyed it! It's just a collection of DW-inspired ideas but it means a lot that you took so much time. Even one person enjoying it thoroughly makes the effort worth it. Certainly, feel free to share it with friends and consider writing a review!

The entry is for Dreadstaff, and it's in Balghast's Castle on the 3rd floor. Take the centre door (the one that heads toward the final boss's room) and look at the barriers on the east side of the room, once the room widens out. It will be inconspicuous, but it should be on the rightmost tile of the diagonal barriers.

In the final castle, there are two things you could call secrets: A hidden staircase in the southwest tower, in the northwest part of the 2F room (you can easily see a passageway on the west side of the room in the floor below that would appear to be inaccessible, but with stairs that lead to nowhere. Search where the "nowhere" would go above). There is also the "wall of darkness" in the courtyard, where there are two different exits to find.

There is nothing in the throne room at the end -- I don't remember where the reference to this is, off-hand, and it's honestly been awhile. :) It might have been that I intended it ironically, since there is always a "passageway behind the throne" in Dragon Quest games, but I couldn't tell you off-hand, to be brutally honest. If you can point me to where I inserted the reference, I could tell you if this was intentional or something that I forgot to remove. It might seem weird that I don't exactly remember, but there are just so many layers of dialogue, foreshadowing, lore that I inserted in waves (and a few things I removed or changed in terms of dialogue) over 2+ years of creating this game.

All in all, I'm really glad you've enjoyed it! I put a lot of love into this. Given how incredibly thorough you've been, I wouldn't doubt for a moment that you could stumble upon some interesting bugs in the less-tested postgame material. I don't feel so bad, though, after having Final Fantasy 15 bug out/soft lock on me more than once during my recent playthrough... I'm only one guy, and they're a ginormous team. ;)

Ha, amazing! Basically, you're so thoroughly finding things that have never been tested: I certainly never made it to 99 myself, but I'm not sure what to do about the overflow. Parsing the script I'm using for customized required exp levels, I can't find an easy fix. For now, consider it a most surprising and disappointing reward for having dedicated so much time in.

The Dire Goopi is totally an unintentional omission: Every battle group that has enemies which can "call for help" has a couple of commands that are (or should be) executed in the first line. I didn't reset a variable for that single battle that was meant to be reset.

Hexatona: I actually did use an 8-bit font originally, and tried a couple over time, but found that there were some major issues with automatic resizing and scaling that seemed very difficult to overcome without a lot of extra work. Ultimately, I cut my losses and used (what I consider to be) a nice meaty-lettered fun-looking font. Thanks for the feedback, though. :)

Also Animebryan: Sorry, yeah, I understand why you might be irked that I didn't look into it earlier. You know - when something happens once, it COULD just statistically be a quirk. I'm a math prof - back in February was mid-semester! So, really busy at the time, I only looked briefly into it, found that Common Event that I explained above I assumed I was using, and it didn't look like anything was wrong with it. So, I dropped it! But, repeated evidence makes it more likely that something is truly up. Since I have a bit more time at this point in the semester, I looked into the matter a little more thoroughly now and found the hidden issue - whoops. :)

Thanks again guys!