Final boss is way more balanced than in ebf3, mainly due to the support equips now available (auto-revive pope dress + backup character makes it nearly impossible to lose) as well as the selection of overpowered summons and limit breaks.
Story wise, was as epic as ever - 100/10 in fact!
Crossing my hands for an ebf5 - kupo, I know you're busy but I'll pay you to release ebf4 on steam, make enough money out of it to do ebf5, and continue this series as long as you are willing to draw cats.
Brillant game with mix and match customization rather than straightforward upgrades, kept me playing for ages despite the short length of the overall game (replayability was high!)
For those who want to know, the highest damage weapon is a crit chance based sniper rifle with piercing, fireball, trail, and powershot (instant kills anything in beginner 50% of the time)
An amazing game, elegant in itself. Weaved with great magic that even simple drawings can portray! Thank you for breathing color and magic into my mind once more!
EXcellent game! I have the following opinions:
Instead of having a combination system where you get a new element every dungeon, why not have the elements be infusable into weapons and introduce an inventory of sorts? More combinations and crafting gives the player greater choice :)
another thing to note would be the redundancy of having so many stats; my recommendation would be to allocate each weapon a different crit effect instead and just have one universal crit. Axe -> chop effect (deals % damage of life), spear -> death strike (chance to kill in one hit), dagger -> life steal (chance to leech some life; since daggers are "low" damage this may be balanced), sword -> cleave (double damage).
some people say that magic proc is overpowered; but i disagree that it should be balanced by merely making it consume mana; instead, make the defend action charge mana after casting, and have a new manasteal stat, so procing it will be dependent on how well you control the mana gauge!
HAHA GAMBLE SHOP IS EPIC. SAVE GAME AND TRY FOR ORANGE, RESET IF YOU DONT GET IT. I RECOMMEND TRYING FOR HELMETS AND RINGS, THOSE ARE V. WORTH IT. ARMORS ARE GOOD IF YOU DONT HAVE THEM YET.
Also, the last tip applies to high quality ingredients at the feed slime "minigame" in the tavern. I recommend you save up the ingredients, as having a more varied selection will vastly increase your range of "obtained" items - having more feathers seems to give a shitload of useless seed potions (DO NOT KEEP THESE. THEY ADD ONE PERMANENT STAT, WHICH IS BULLSHIT)
Just some tips and little hints that will prove useful in determining what class set ups you want to make:
* Mages are not affected by Critical and Accuracy stat
* Normal attacks are determined by Attack stat
* Heal amount is determined by Magic stat
* Mages generally deal the highest amount of damage; against single targets omnislash (tritom's fighter ultimate) deals the most.
* Physical AOE attacks (Such as triton's wrath for Reuben) are affected by crits and accuracy, making them much less reliable than mages for "farming"
* Orange level items are easy to obtain via reloading the game until you get it coughed out of a slime. They are also very, very rarely dropped by bosses, unique mobs, hard mobs and chests.
Protip: If you want an item of your choice from the slime, before feeding it any sort of high quality (those are the only ones that will give you orange-level items / seed potions) food, save your game. If the item you received isn't to your liking (due to class incompatibility, already obtained etc) just refresh the page and give it another go. Arranging it in different orders of how you feed the slime can result in drastically different options, or maybe each time the item is different!
Finally managed to get SSS, could probably have gotten higher if I didn't lose that match against the territory. For those who are struggling, protip: The type of training matters. Crusaders benefit more from spamming gym trainings, knights benefit more from boxing, and archers... benefit from archery (What else have you been putting points into?). Wizards/Clerics.... should read.
If you're intending to win the game with a high score, try to get all unique characters (keep your early units at max level 2, save reputation points for the uniques) and remember to buy all upgrades.
Boss world is actually a troll... It's an endless amount of bosses set at level 107 (the portal is a jump to that level apparently)
Been fighting 20 minutes using the push glitch without it ending at all.
Buy Green Egg. Generate 10 kappa. Place in expo stall and sell for 70 each (if sell in lab is 50)
That's pretty much your income for the whole game and not the useless visitors.
This is genius. The idea of combining a tower defense with puzzle game and throwing in one added element of rpg is just unspeakably awesome. The problems with such an idea are that the game severely overwhelms players, as resource gathering becomes real time and the main focus of the game.
I recommend that to balance this out, monsters are sent in "waves" and there is a time given for players to continue collecting resources even after the wave is destroyed. Another idea is to make the puzzle map viewable during the pause stage. While this might sound like it will make the game too easy (players keep pausing to examine which resources they can get from the map) but from experience, it takes way more than just observation to work out puzzles like these - the pausing will just help players to catch a breath in between fights so they can identify what are they lacking in with regards to resources.
When you get max jump upgrade, go back to the main room, the one right before the cave. Jump all the way to the left, you'll drop beyond the screen and pick up a hidden blue key!
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Congratulation for your SSS rank!