BICFARMER'S PROFILE

I've played games which replace lower level spells like what you're talking about, and I didnt like it. I prefer options: I definitely need the basic heal if the HP gained to MP cost ratio is higher so i can use it after fights. Same deal for party-wide buffs like mp regen, some characters might not need MP regen (they might have self targeting mp restore or something) and thats just more MP wasted by whoever casts the regen.

Couldnt get far. Ran into a group of 2 bees, and they decided to focus fire on each of my party members in turn, killing off each party member as they go. Which begs the question, why are my teammates so weak that they can all get twoshotted by random encounters in the first area? Escaping was also impossible so the only choice was to die painfully.

P.S. I'm guessing there was an equipment shop somewhere in town that i missed. Sure, but I didnt expect area 1 to be this brutally random. I beat other randoms without too much trouble so this is probably a case of wonky balancing.

Got as far as the snow mountain in chapter 2 before i quitted. It was so cold up that mountain that the game sometimes froze. Seriously though, the game mechanics are very tight and forces me to play in a certain way, which seems to directly contradict what the dev says in the game page above:

My focus in selecting features for this game was immersion. Games are for playing, not playing against. So I tried to piece together things that create a gameplay experience that you aren't drawn out of by mechanics of the game itself.

In this RPG there are on map encounters that don't respawn, which means no grinding and no steady income. Lots of enemies dont even drop money, you have to steal it off them if u want to get something. In addition you are by yourself for large sections of the game, and the enemies can hit very hard. This means that for every battle i will be engaging in a very slow turtling strategy where I spam the evasion move and guard to restore TP. This will allow me to avoid taking damage from randoms, but it really draws out the fights and slows the game down. Something thats also pretty annoying is that self-targeting moves, like the HP-costing self buff skill that the rogue has and the healing move that the scientist has, have a chance to MISS. That is pretty sad.

This thread will probably get locked pretty fast. Anyway i think u shouldnt take review scores this seriously, so much as to have poured out your entire personal belief system like this. For example I would give ur game a 1 star because the game froze when i played it. Would that be fair? Not really. But you don't have to take it seriously because you fixed that problem already. Same thing goes for any review/criticism/whatever, just read the feedback, fix what u think needs fixing and move on.

I played both the old version and the new version, and both of them play very well. The two versions actually have very different levels if I remember right. Unfortunately when I played this I couldnt get past the final level and got kinda annoyed having gotten all the way there. Seeing this review I kinda want to download it and try to finish it again. Maybe.

Did you finish the game, libby? Maybe you can give me some pointers for that final level?