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Put all level up points into strength, and max student (20 points) right away. Next get a few points of gold up (you'll get stuck at a wall midgame and have to grind for gold to upgrade your weapon otherwise), and put the rest into whatever weapon you want to use, lastly putting into it's subskill. A fair warning: The game is much longer grind than the progress indicator will make you think early. All this game really needs most is to have every enemy have it's hp cut to 1/3 of it's original value and it would flow so much better.
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The Loot: Here's a question, you have all this focus on grinding, but why are there no rare drops? It might make the Luck stat more useful, and also finding weapons off of monsters is a strong hook for an RPGesque system. Why bother having the shopping system in place if you can only get weapons from shops and chests? You might as well have had a window you could open to pay gold for upgrades like extra stat points.
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Another complaint: there is no brief invulnerability after taking a hit, if an enemy gets on top of you in a coroner, you can lose a lot of health fast (you have nowhere to bounce and they don't bounce off of you).
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There are numerous problems with the game you can easily find with just one playthrough. (1) Poison is hilariously weak compared to other elemental effects like fire and ice. Fire does 20% extra damage per hit and ice slows down enemies. Poison only does 5% extra damage every 0.5 seconds for 5 seconds and only works if you stop attacking. Make it stackable or AT LEAST TRIPLE its damage so that stopping and letting poison do its job is actually worth the time. (2) Quest rewards are often incredibly useless. Near the end of the game where you most probably have the ultimate 200+ damage weapons, one of the quests gives you a weapon that does 20-50 damage.
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Tips. Skills max at 20, I'd suggest maxing xp bonus first.
When you get the swimming and push skill manuals you have to spend a skill point, so I would suggest keeping a free point once you get into the dungeons that give them.
Bows require ammo so keep a melee weapon on hand in case you run outa arrows.
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looks like i'm playing Zelda. sounds like i'm playing Pokemon. feels like i'm playing Neutopia. controls like i'm playing on a VCS. all of these things are good by themselves. together? not so much. ftr, skills are worthless: no matter how much i'm pumping into something for a bonus, i'm getting a whole lotta jumping jack squat.
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The game is Zelda with RPG Elements (Leveling system), but the whole questing design is pretty flawed, and so are most of the weapons, "Kill 15 of x for y" e.g Kill 15 Tarantula for a 40-50 dmg weapon when they have around 2500 health? Sword is only the real way to go in this game, the dagger range is unreliable vs ranged enemies and the axe swings too slow against them too, especially the robots. Also the fact there is no "Dmg boosting" (invunerability frames after you take damage) is terrible, it's way too easy to get cornered in some parts of the map and unable to get out without dieing or taking almost all of your health. If theres a sequel I sincerely hope you guys get playtesters/better play testers.
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To use PUSH, you need 1 skill point. Add PUSH as a skill. You can only Push blocks 1 space. I know this will get buried in other comments, but I hope it will help some of you. Happy gaming!
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Glitch to beat the game faster: At the top of pirate island, in the screen with the 2 green/yellow crabs, if you switch screens from left to right while holding up (a.k.a. w), you will pass through the rock barrier in the water. If you swim to the second tile from the very upper left screen in the game, (1,2) you will get to a room with 2 computer screens. The computer on the right saves you in Pandora’s cave, and the sealed off room to the left with the guy wearing purple is the final NPC in the game. If you get to a completely white screen, you have gone 2 screens too far to the left.
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It's very irritating when you have to switch screens all the time simply because you're walking against a wall. Also, if you run out of antidotes and you're poisoned beyond the reach of a shop, you're screwed.
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Too bad the enemy's poison is way overpowered. I understand that antidote is very useful, but the poison should wear off after some time. I'm now stuck at a computer, with 46 HP, no potions and taking 28 damage after walking a bit. Therefore, I'll have to start a new game.
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Monster variations: There are only three types of monsters, things that shoot, things that don't shoot that are slow, and things that don't shoot and are fast. Very boring.
Consider how you would have made your game differently if you'd taken out the exp system, offered no weapons sold at shops only arrows and consumables and opened up the map?
That said, here's some stuff you did I felt was right.
The sell back %: I like that at least you didn't push people by having 50% or less as the sell back rate. You actually promote people buying upgrades on a regular basis instead of hording gold to try and skip upgrades. So, nice move there.
Warp system: Given the importance of shops, it was nice there were warps to go back and get new weapons, but why have a cost for them at all? Adding a price seemed arbitrary and the cost didn't even scale for how much money I was making in the later parts of the game, so it might as well not mattered later on. I appreciated it was there at all though.
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Axe: Most damage but slowest, Sword:2nd most damage 2nd fastest, dagger/katar: damage tied/close with sword (when upgraded), fastest. Always have an antidote with you, especially later in the game. Equip an elemental arrow (I like poison the best) in your 'accesory' slot to add elemental damage to your melee weapon.
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Its irritating that its just a matter of time until you die from poisoning if you're caught without an anitdote... 4/5
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Thats a very nice game. There should be some improvements, such as some magic skills, more items, more monsters. 4/5 from me.
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Take the gameboy zelda graphics. Add in some graphics in the same style. Green octoroks=green slimes, blue gels=blue slimes. Make everything take tons hits to kill, add in a stat system that seems balanced to have more stats per level than you get. Make common zelda items require you to find them, then put a stat point in to actually use them. And make the xp system force you to grind on either enemies that you can one shot for little xp, or enemies that take TONS of hits for just a bit more. And have the next level keep requiring more and more xp just so you can get 1-2 more damage per level. So that you're better off grinding money and buying the best weapon you can, so that you can one or two shot the big tough enemies. And then find out that the next area enemies take tons of hits even WITH your new weapon. Oh and have quests that give bad weapons, ones that you need something better than the reward to actually beat in a short time. You get this game.
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I remember playing that game Seedling, which is a lot like the original Zelda, done correctly. This game is like... a hopeful ripoff that becomes infuriating once you're done.
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The poison really should be removed after saving... I cannot finish the game because I saved with poison and have no antidotes/nor any way to get to a shop in time. Is it possible to fix this ASAP? Thanks.
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Now I've played a bit more. You didn't tweak as much as I thought. From what I've seen, 50% are identical to Oracle of Seasons/Ages sprites, 40% are slightly modified, and 10% are original. This includes backgrounds, characters, enemies, and the like. This is just sad.
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I found the game tedious to go through. Useless MMO quests in the very first village, I didn't see any way to heal in town except by buying potions, and the scale of each map is probably too big for no reason. You don't walk faster than in Link's Awakening, but every square of map, and house, is two times bigger. Tedious, tedious, tedious.
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the main character looks like a baby crawling up and down the screen fighting off walking cannon monsters with his pacifier until they explode.
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You do not use manual for pushing. When you obtain it, level up. Then you can train pushing skill (just one level). Same applies for swimming manual
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Maybe I'm getting old, but I can't ever remember where the "quest giver" is. Either add a little note on the quest screen to remind me or put some symbol over the quest giver's head. Either way, gimme something plz!
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I would like to like this game but there are some serious issues. First of, the combat system is slow. Make enemies have less HP, add sub weapons and make battles are more strategic than just wacking the enemy back for 3 minutes until it dies. Secondly, add more personality to the characters. They keep the same lines the whole game. It would help if characters interacted with each other and actually moved. There are no boss fights so there isn't a sense of accomplishment when you finish an area. Even simple bosses would help the game feel more fleshed. It would feel more interesting if there are more puzzles in dungeons and secret rooms. There be puzzles involving pushing boulders or using the aforementioned sub weapons to do certain tasks. Another aspect is that needs to be improved is the map. You should be able to zoom in to squares and have markers where the people who gave you quests are. If these aspects are improved in a sequel, I would totally play it until the end.
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Really fun, I just hate how my attack is almost the same when looking forward (up) or right. This makes us unable to hit enemies coming from southeast, which happens quite frequently.