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I've been playing for a couple hours and the only really bad thing is that there's no place to heal or restore MP. It'd be nice to have an Inn or to heal when you level up. I haven't used any skills because I'd just be burning through potions. I love the game, though. Keep making RPGs. This is a great start.
I'll be sure to include an inn if I ever make another rpg. :P I was trying to make potions useful but I probably should have just included inns and ditched the potions from the sounds of it, lol. Stay cool, thanks!
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it would be nice if you could arrange the order of who attacks first. but other than that, i found this game to be pretty fun....
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Space mutes. Great game so far. I wish it started out more like a traditional RPG, but having a huge party right away is cool, too.
Yeah, I know party gathering probably would have been more fun, but it also would have been a lot harder to code, haha. ^_^ At least I made the training area fights really easy.
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Comment part 1: Game has potential: Really nice graphics, a workable story, and a lot of well developed systems. However, it is also riddled with annoying points. Lots of random battles, and lots of unneccessary clicking. In battles, you constantly have to wait for the actions bar to come up from the bottom of the screen before you can use it, which means battles take a lot longer than they could. I would make it come up almost instantly after the player chooses an action, so the player can plot his next action while the previous character is doing his attack.
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A very enjoyable game overall, promising for the future. Here's what could be improved: 1. the interface. The equipment system is not intuitive at all. Also, it's not easy to determine the enemy's weakness: a more visible description of what element is a given skill or maybe ditching the scan could be more profitable. 2. Except for heal spells, and a stun here or there, the spells overall were'nt that useful. That coupled with the fact that you rely only on mana potions to heal, means that you're really not gonna use a wide variety of spells at all. (ae) Buffs? Debuffs? Maybe conjure? Poison? 3. The difficulty curve is always uneasy to balance, but overall the game almost never felt really challenging. Not too easy, but not hard enough imo. That being said, I played for a few hours so you did a really good job, kudos to you, I hope you make more games. Also, minor glitch found: if you teleport home while being in a cave, you will remain in darkness forever (not cool ^^).
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The menu freeze bug seems to be caused by going to character equipment and just checking equips, not changing equipment. When you actually change the equipment it doesn't freeze. Hope this helps. + So Dev. can see it
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How is it that this game is so underrated? It is a very nice and well done RPG. Amazing one, actually. Congratulations, Hyptosis, for this unique game. I will be looking forward to your next one!
Thanks for the kind words. I knew when I uploaded this game it wouldn't be for everyone, but if only a few people enjoy it then that is good enough for me.
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over all a pretty nice game. one suggestion tho perhaps you could put hot keys in during battles? like s to activate skills menu and then skills listed 1-9 or however many you have, and same for items. and just use shift or something for attack. its just on a laptop with a touch pad it gets annoying on the fingers. also the random battles are a little frequent. on some old school rpgs like goden sun i believe it was you could turn up or down the random encounters depending if you wanted xp faster. i think it would be a nice addition as i have often found random battles to be far to frequent. + if you agree
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Having a graphics quality button might help on slower computers, I can't really play this even though it's a style I've been wanting to play.
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A Huchukalaki Drink costs 15 Rooks and give +50 MP. if used with Cinnacat and Quickbrew skill you can heal all your party members for +70HP. Later with Sunrise skill you can heal all your party full (or near full) at the cost of 15 Rooks. Its not an Inn but i think is better. a portable and very cheap one that you can even use in battle :D. I had fun finding that out. i only use other skills in boss fight or near dead situations. i love how the party art changes with equipment. only thing to criticize is the lack of any keyboard shortcuts. a button for opening the menu should be a good start. Space for mute was not really expected but its a great game, both the story and art is lovely and the gameplay is pretty fun. You may consider adding more musics
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i like this game and all..but the fighting system should pause while you are trying click on what to do, after all the computer doesnt have a response time and everything.
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Interesting story, fun gameplay, good music, and beautiful artwork. It's very clear you spent a lot of time working on this game, and the result is quite good.
If I may make a suggestion for improvement:
BATTLE SYSTEM NAVIGATION: The world map navigation using the mouse and wasd keys is well done, and if incorporated into the battle system, the way battles are fought would be much smoother. I like having left mouse be 'confirm' and how you can use the mouse to choose which enemy you'd like to attack. If wasd was incorporated to navigate the battle menu in combination with a 'yes' button like 'n' and a 'no' button like 'm' with the mouse being the final confirmation, battles would be faster, smoother, and more fun. Speed is clearly a factor when the enemies are not programmed to ever be in 'wait mode.'
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*sees the alchemist from hood, is thrilled*
*sprints up to Brandt and talks with him*
He doesn't say we...he said me...
*sad faces*
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What I would like to see : 1) an offensive skill for Cinnacat. i maxed his magic hoping he would get one, and all I got was an useless character with 2 attack. 2) a way to recover mana that doesn't cost money. Basically the way you do it now is like paying money to use your skills instead of mana, and 3) More info on each character's stat gain : hy do Fizzle and Coal gain much more damage per point than the others? it has never been explained.
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nice game like the good old rpg style but pls give us a option to reduce the graphics played it on the laptop of my girlfriend and it was a bit slow -.- it have taken 10 sec every time i won a battle
another thing is the mana give us a inn or something its really annoying that you have always just to auto attack and so the level up system is not so smart too cause its better to level up strengh on the most for a nice resulation
all in all i give you a 4/5 but it could be easy to get the last star too ;)
PS: more of this nice rpg´s lovin it :D
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An "auto-fight" would be great. Takes forever just clicking fight, choose enemy, watch animation, wait for next ally to step forward, repeat.
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an "auto-attack"-button would be nice, also that the save-ground would restore mana and hp. "nerd mode on" Fjor's sword would never fit in that sheath/scabbard "nerd mode off"
the battle fade out is a bit long, but inspite all off this very good work!
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There is a treasure chest in the Ardan Ruins I can't get to because it is behind a wall. Is it possible to get to it, or is it just for decoration?
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Navigating my inventory is a real pain in the tush >_< It's hard to see what I have! Please do something to make it better for me?
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Very buggy and clunky, but the art and story (as with all your games) is fantastic. I think with some tweaking you could make the gameplay smoother/less buggy, but I suspect you will probably just stick to your comfort zone of point-and-click games--which is fine, you make some of the best ones out there. :)
Yeah, it feels like a little too much work to try to code/write/paint every single thing. I'll be releasing some more simple games for a while, give myself some time to heal from this. Lol
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Lol, starting off with a five party team consisting of a medusa- an attractive one at that XD, the one that started the adventure, a catman that serves as the cleric, a mole-like person, and a badass looking guardian with a ball and chain as a weapon- but looks a lot less under the helmet (Love the guy still). I say you really made a great rp- including the cute beholder following them. If anything, the problems with the game are already stated- my main ones being a lack of an inn. Otherwise, i look forward to seeing more games like this- especially with colorful and variety of characters!
Thanks for the comment and feedback. I'll very likely be using these characters in other games as well, I grew to like them a lot. In fact, Cinnacat is in several of my other games already, check out Guild Dungeons some time. He's one of the heroes in that game. ^_^
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kindly add a quality change from high to low settings... its best for fast playing especially casting spells, character movement, battle animations.... a strategy need whose hero goes first.. i like casting AOE spells for killing enemies FASTER.... ^^
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I can be pretty picky but I am honestly shocked this game has as few plays and as low a score as it does. It does have its problems but I've seen far worse games on here do better.
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Superb graphics with an impressive number of special abilities per character. This one is a very nice turn-based RPG indeed, despite the bugs.
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Great game, but it tends to have a tiny slowdown every now and then (in battles). Not everyone might notice it, but it's a tiny bit frustrating.
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Comment part 2: Increasing the size of the actions bar might be a good idea as well, so that it is easier to choose your actions. The smaller it is, the longer it takes to align the mouse correctly, and the less obvious it becomes that this is the main interaction area with the battle interface. (Case in point, the Pokémon games. There, the actions bar takes a significant portion of the screen) One final thing I'd like changed is to let the player now what kind of game he or she is playing a bit faster. Here, it begins with a rather drawn out introduction, then you move around, without any clear instructions (I clicked everything. Since the first room has no interactable elements, you don't realize interactables are made green when you hover over them). Finally, it takes a lot of time before the random battles begin. Might want to have a tutorial battle earlier. Say right after exiting the house. Other than that, i think the game has great potential. Good luck :)
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will be good some journal,where u can see mision, also some better map
also some skill damage for magic separate of fisical
and some fix in the inventory, (make better how u see the equipment)
also posibility to play only with mouse will be nice
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Cool game, a bit short. There should be a way to sell old equipment and potions, as well as buy equipment. Rooks should also show up in chests a bit more.
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Really good game, quite hard at the end as it's all relatively easy up till the last bosses. Nice gameplay and a good narrative. I liked the involvement of the characters from other games. only bad thing is that it wasn't a bigger longer game, maybe a more developed sell/buy option as all the equipment confused me a bit, but thats just because I'm a bit dim. 5/5
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4.5/5 because of the lack of healing places. Made it to the dark forest with no mana and no heals lol. At least give us a level up restore. An Ironman mode like this would be nice though, and still i was gaming in the 90s so this is super legit
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Great game, fantastic potential in enriched stories for each character. I have a heavy preference for hotkeys and being able to use arrows+enter during battle, but I do like the unique way it plays out (not turn based.). Overall, excellent game. Thanks!
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I very much like that your heroine is not half naked, but has, in fact, put on a believable set of armor. Thank you for that! :)
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The combat system screams awkward. The fact that it's not turn based, but you have to wait for the skill menu to come up and you have to click the enemy to attack seems a bit unfair.