NARCODIS'S PROFILE

this is a neat idea! I like it. Keep it up, I'm intrigued.

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Aside from little things that distinguish it from your average RPG (ie the ability to jump around and do Mario Bros. style things all the time) Mario RPG is pretty much garbage. It's way too easy and has too few redeeming qualities - if it were at least funny or clever (like earthbound) or had an engaging storyline (like insert RPG I like that shall not be named for fear of causing an even stupider argument) it might not be crap.

Your argument is pretty questionable simply because "those little things" are exactly what made the experience so wonderfully innovative and enjoyable to begin with. Not only did Square successfully re-imagine the Mario universe in the form of an engaging RPG experience, they did it with superb creativity, addictive mini-games and astonishing visuals.

Addictive mini games? Like... go down the waterfall and collect green coins? Or "guess which hand of mine has the red ball and if you're right you get a rotten mushroom (gross!)"? There weren't really that many mini games period, I'm not exactly sure what you're talking about, unless you're counting the four rooms in Bowser's castle (the other two were annoying as shit but I'll concede that was a pretty cool part of the game). I'm really just asking for clarification here.

hey, i remember loving the shit out of that waterfall thing. The one where you stomp on the goombas was awesome, the one where you try to successfully "jump" multiple times on a single enemy was great (beating 50 jumps was HARD), the yoshi racing was also excellent. There's alot about this game to love.

hella, dude! Listen to WIP. I've seen/been in situations like this more times than I like to count, and the best thing you can do for yourself is say FUCK IT and get the FUCK out of that. She's a bitch and doesn't deserve you. Not what you want to hear at ALL, I know, but believe me man. You don't want anything to do with her.

She's stringing you along and you gotta sever the ties, bro! Falling in love is overrated, you can hella find another girl. Believe me. I've got a few years of experience under my belt to speak for.

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As geodude said, its pretty much DDR style. Hhitting the buttons as they reach the middle to get AP and let one random partymember try to damage one random enemy. You get more then 1 AP for chains of successful hits (same with the enemy for misses) and can use special attacks and/or items once you have got enough AP for them.
So victory is a mix of reactiontime and use of the right elemental weapon and special attacks.
At the end you get "exp" based on enemy stats, hit/miss ratio and difficuly/speed to boost individual stats.

oh duh, maybe i should read what others are posting.

Anyway I dig the comic book-esque style it has going in the battles (OUCH! CRUNCH!). that sort of flair and style appeals to me.

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@narcodis: Decent for an vx screen I guess, but are the walls on the second screen meant to be this high? If its not a canion a 2-3 tile max high with more variation might look better.

It is a canyon. It's a path through a bunch of mountains. So the height is intentional. :)

Your screens look very nice, by the way... what kind of battle system do you have going there? Is it real time?