AMERK'S PROFILE

I imagine it's how fast you play through the game and

Freaking hilarious! One of the best badaptions I played, although I had to fix the loops in the battle.

When I first released my game (Night of the Living Noobyas) for testing, I had played through it multiple times and thought the difficulty curve was just right. However, my testers came back and told me that it was too tedious. So I adjusted the stats, the drops, the EXP, the damage output on my skills and weapons, and I thought the game became way too easy. However, the comments I've received state they feel the game is very well balanced.

So... it goes to show that the developer will almost always believe their game is easier than it may actually be. That and the fact that gamers don't want to grind anymore. I'm not saying a player should stand around and grind for an hour just to traverse a four-room dungeon, but some bit of extra grind should be expected, be it a touch encounter and the player must revisit a room or two for extra combat, or random encounter and the player must walk around to find a few extra battles... at least when the game mimics older rpg's.

However, when you see the comments over at other sites (such as RMW), the top three things most gamers hate and consider the worst mistakes of older NES games are:

1. The inability to save anywhere - required to use save points in a dungeon, can only save on the world map, etc.
2. Random Encounters - everything has to be touch encounter.
3. Level Grinding.

The end result is to either:

A. Make a game you want at the difficulty you want, but expect that it will only appeal to a certain audience, and even then may cause for people to quit and complain or...

B. Make a game that will appeal to the masses, even if you feel it's not very challenging. At least then you will know more people will download and play through it.

Edit: I've heard people say to offer options (easy or difficult). The problem is, unless there is a reward, most people will just take the easy route. If you do offer an option of difficulty, I recommend including extra loot, mini games, unique skills, or even story content on the difficulty setting just to encourage more people to try that options.

And of course, there is always the New Game +, which offers even more opportunities.

For example, let's say the normal path to get a certain type of ending (we'll just call it Ending A) is easy. However, a lot of the side quests and maybe even the path to get the real ending (we'll call it Ending B) is hard. The player can try for the harder path first, but if they can't, they can always play the easy path first and then reload with their EXP/GOld, etc., upon finishing the game and then take on the harder path, which would then be easier for them.

Nope. I played Dream Endeavor and it could have been a good game, but failed in a lot of areas. For one, the story is way too cliche for me, not to mention a boring Final Fantasy clone. Second, the game play and battle system felt tedious, boring, and sloppy.

Slapping a bunch of scripts together to make something look cool doesn't make the game cool by design unless there is a reason behind using the scripts. I'd rather have had a default battle system if it meant implementing a better strategy. And besides that, side view with Kaduki sprites... not entirely a unique concept.

I will say the mapping was decent, considering it was primarily RTP, but "the best game available on RRR" it is not.

This review that was done by eien_tsubasa sums up my thoughts on the game, which the only thing I'd disagree with is the story, which I thought was poorly written:

http://www.rpgrevolution.com/review/1624/355.html

I don't think anything I've played has matched the absurdity of Space Funeral.