YOSHIO'S PROFILE

author=LockeZ
Yeah, using up your items is a real problem. To try to combat that, the unbeatable battles in my game fully heal you before they start, and the enemies don't do anything for the first three rounds, then insta-kill your character on the fourth. So you have no reason to heal.

Since the only combat-usable items in my game are healing items, I think that pretty much takes care of the problem. Hopefully? If anyone can think of a way it would still be a problem, let me know. If my game had items that granted buffs or dealt damage, then it would obviously still be a problem, but fortunately it doesn't.

my game also makes sure the player is fully healed before the unwinnable boss battle but this is mostly because I plan on having a way to heal completely before every boss fight both to let the player no a boss is probably in the next room and to keep him from having to backtrack all the way to the shop at the beginning of the dungeon

I plan on taking away all the consumabe items after the boss battle is over and giving the player a ton of money to get more in the location he finds himself after the cutscenes are over that way it doesn't matter at all if he used up everything in a vain attempt to survive

he probably just forgot to pay the bribe

edit: wait was i not supposed to mention that?

http://www5f.biglobe.ne.jp/~itazu/etolier/material/menu.html

you'll find them all here as well as the battler graphics i use in both this and my current project

mother 3 and me have a very special relationship so this is no coincidence

never played earthbound, i really should cause there's like a 100% chance I'll love it

these are both pretty good ideas

I especially like #1 since so many people don't check to see how many reviews a certain game got and just look at the star rating like NewBlack said a 3 on a game with 1 review and a 3 on a game with 10 are two very different things