Uh, you hold it like you're fencing because it's a rapier. The guy doesn't exactly look like a steroid-baby Greatsword user. Cool intro, good graphics for a flash game, I'm certainly interested to see where this leads in later chapters
Last one, I promise. I read a few more comments and a lot of people complained about too much dialog. This may be personal taste, but I liked the amount Mardek had; it gave the characters more time to develop as people, and explained things clearer. Frankly, that's the best thing about the series, it looks and plays kinda like a SNES RPG, but without all the limitations on those games (such as short text and item descriptions, lack of abilities, etc) that kept them from being really good. So far, Mardek seems to be making good use of the medium and is fairly well written.
Didn't originally intend to double post, but I also have to disagree with Catpaw on the combat. Turn-based may not be the best combat system, but it is appropriate for 2D RPGs, which is about all you can do with Flash games. Also, I was not a fan of the talesworth arena system. So, I don't think Id recommend changing it much, it fits the game.
Uh, he was trying to offer constructive criticism, not say it was shit. Anyway, pretty good RPG; well done characters and humor portion. I agree that the switching between mouse and keyboard is a bit awkward, but that's my only real complaint.
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