This is a good game. I liked the original, and this has several improvements, like constant access to the store. There are some problems though. Even though we have female characters and faces, the bodies are the same, and look mismatched. I mean, you'd have to rework armor images, and you've already done so much...it's just something to work on for the next game. Legendary items don't really seem to work so well.
Also, for stats, I hate how you're forced to give all the points to one category. I liked being able to spread them out more for balance. And how much does dexterity add to accuracy and evasion, or intellect to power recovered? It would be nice to know, since I poured a lot of points into my warrior's dexterity when I kept them a melee fighter, and gave lots of points in strength to my mage.
The female bodies are not the same for most armor types. Plate chestpieces are the same (because that makes sense) but everything else is different. I know it's a bit subtle at the scale of the characters.
Also, the journal needs to be able to be sorted to make it easier to find things, and you need a better map. And another annoying thing is having to clear a room every time you enter it. It makes this game tedious. And get some better battle music, the track is one used by another not too pleasant game I played so that doesn't help with it's repetitiveness.
Though I will admit the art seems better in this one and the game made much better use of the wiki. One of my problems with SS1 was the unexplained stats. But this game uses a wiki link to store info they can't fit (though it makes me wonder why they bothered to put in something as unexpected as growth rate charts). Though using the wiki means making sure it is complete as possible and I think it DOES have some holes in it's data.
And they need to fix those enemies, the BullBears, or was it BearBulls? Anyway, they need to go since they are too strong, being able to one shot you and all.
This game was initially interesting, just like SS1. The seasons theme was new and had such creative potential. It makes me really sad to see that wasted on something like this. But as everyone says, the gold system is ridiculous, that is why everyone asks about it. It's not even semi-flexible. Not to mention the lack of character deletion button. That is horrible.
Also, the screen seems to shake when I move, something SS1 did not do. And the game seems to much more crowded, at least on screen. When I log in I see the screen and feel cramped, which was not the case for SS1. The attack timer is annoying and puts too much pressure on people, so you end up doing the same thing over and over.
On top of that the miss rate is annoying, and the lack of an inn to regen everything really hurts it. And because of that glitch I can't finish the game, which I've started twice this week, and refuse to start AGAIN.
The game guide is messed up, with the links at the BOTTOM when they should be on the top.
The concept for this game was interesting, and at times it was fun. But as the game went on it got tiring and when I found the glitch with the cookie, it ceased being fun at all and became a 100% chore. A game should be fun, not tedious. And the stats never get explained.
I really wanted to like this game again after I tried it two years ago, but the lack of effort in so many places just made me give it the lowest rating possible.
This game is terrible. The items to buy suffer from what I assume is hyperinflation, the world is too big and it takes a while to get places, the random enemies becomes annoying. The fact that every every increases instead of by area is annoying. Having three new party members is useless since benched ones gain no exp.
The princess's best weapon is better than Alessa's and cheaper. But it would be really hard to play and then use the princess. And when I turned in the apple, the game wouldn't acknowledge me or let me get the cookie recipe. This game had some good points, but it just ruins them all.
@roaww: That is a good map, but not exactly the best. Somebody put a link to the guidology.com page for this game and they have a crafting guide, that map, and a second one from the maker's website.
The other map is like all maps in miniature and shows were the talismans, special items, bosses, titan gates, and sigils are, are it gives you a precise idea of where to go. It has a few typos though.
Your map is still good to use with the other one though. It tells you where the other gates are, the ones you need keys for. The other map also doesn't have those crafting guides or a boss guide.
I really liked this game. Playing it here counts as my third run of it, well, second since the last isn't finished.
But this game has bugs that need fixing, which is why I actually lowered my rating. There is the egg glitch, that's annoying. Then there is the movement glitch. Facing the wrong direction isn't bad, it gives material for moonwalk jokes. But when I can't control my character, that's bad.
And the lag on this game needs fixing. It's caused my computer to overheat and shutdown multiple times, so I lost data, and sometimes Flash crashed on me. Seriously, work on the lag.
I do really love this game, I just wish I didn't have to worry about it crashing on me all the time.
This game is great. It's got an interesting story, and while I hate that the mechanism for attacks requires timing to get good damage (not my strong point), it's pretty good. I just can't believe I got killed the first time by a stop sign of all things. And Pierce is a real creep.
But I have to ask, why does Thunderstrike miss? It doesn't even say miss sometimes, it just shows nothing. Is that normal or a bug? And in the game, did you mean to say Ignite IS dependent on position or IS NOT dependent on position?
Can somebody tell me?
I agree that a floor indicator would be fantastic. I also noticed a bug. The INT, STA, and WIL stats on the menu all displace the total value, say 20, followed by the number that's being added. So if your base STA was 10, it would be 10 + 10. But STE shows the base number followed by the increase.
Also, the text that shows the damage dealt cuts off. And I think there's a bug with getting the +5 will title.
I loved this game, I really did. But I have one problem. I ended up looking at the walkthrough, and there's a chest that isn't marked on the Rock Lake map. It's the one at the secret area entrance and it's so well hidden by the menu button I never saw it and it isn't marked. I spent probably over an hour trying to figure out which chest I missed.
But other than that, it's great. And it would also be fun to see them do a group attack.
Guys, the control problem isn't so much unresponsiveness, it's lack of info. This is based off the old CN Teen Titans game, same type of controls. In that, if your player switched to side of the screen it did not start on, the controls reversed. It even said so on the controls page. Down LEFT Z became Down RIGHT Z.
Same concept applies, but they don't mention it. God's controls are also bad, and the game REALLY needs a pause button. And I hate the baby's crying face every time Mary is KOed. This game is funny in a way but needs serious fixing.
This game is interesting. I agree with the others that gold should be easier to get, but I have one other complaint that nobody seems to have mentioned. Why are the stats never explained? I always wondered what exactly resistance, luck, and skill did but I could never find out, because it was never in the game. In SS2, some of that was mentioned in passing, but same problem. I finally found the definitions on the wiki for SS1.
I shouldn't have to go to a wiki to find the definitions for the stats in a game. I should be able to look them up in the actual game. You need to improve your tutorials.
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The female bodies are not the same for most armor types. Plate chestpieces are the same (because that makes sense) but everything else is different. I know it's a bit subtle at the scale of the characters.