This was a really, really great piece! It was a really good story where you could feel the bond and growth between Zosma and her partner. The battle system is fun, and the combination of you, who can act multiple times, and your partner, who can act randomly and is not that strong, but is definitely the lifeblood of the party, is very good. And the story at the end of the game was heartbreaking. It was a good game experience, nya~!
Enjoying the demo so far, hope to be able to have the beefiest tank cat-blob thing by endgame. However I seem to have an issue where the game freezes up on entering the first random encounter in the Expanding Void.
That is strange! I'll have to investigate and see what's going on here, as I haven't been able to replicate the problem. Sorry that you've run into this :(
When is the cutoff point for the void dungeon achievements? Can the player still revisit old story areas as long as they don't enter the next story area? Also, how strong would the second story area be compared to the first void area?
How does the companion's AI work? Even when the party is at low HP and all the companion's points are invested in their healing skill, they're not guaranteed to heal the party, which is a problem because they're the only source of non-item healing at the moment. Is there a way to set the threshold for their healing skill?
Right now the companion's AI is admittedly pretty basic: It will choose from any of its available attacks at random, including its normal attack.
This is definitely something I'm looking to improve and rework as development continues! I apologize that the companion AI currently in place is rather simple at the moment.
Maybe its the shiny new side-on battle view dazzling me, but I feel the animation and art are once again better than ever. Cute, charming, and super good lookin. Getting to see the party in battle now is a fun addition.
The new battle system is fun! Bossfights were rad and I had some real close calls even on normal. Still tryin to wrap my head around the combo system a bit. I get the basics, but i dunno, i have like a nagging feeling im not quite getting a full grasp of it just yet.
For whatever reason I'm like "there has to be a way to keep a combo going between from a shield remover and the Physical attacks that would benifit from removing that shield." I don't know why i think that, honestly I'm mostly talkin about this bit just to let it out of my system so i can stop thinkin about it. But again the battle system is fun.
All around a great time. I am already looking forward to the full game! Best of luck!
Thanks so much for playing! The battle system is quite experimental but I'm glad it sounds like it was a good time overall.
The game explores a lot of territory that we haven't tried before, like sideview battle perspective. So it means a lot to hear that it was positive change!
I'm looking forward to the finished game! I've loved your RPGs and this one reminds me a bit more of Brave Hero Yuusha than your Soma titles or Crescent Prism. The changeup in battle layout is a surprise as is the Sigil system. The whole setup with collecting treasures reminds me a bit of Wario Land 4 or I guess La Mulana or Pharaoh Rebirth. I don't usually see treasure hunting in rpgs outside of medals for tradeable-items, or just simply collecting equipment.
I've cleared the first boss and took a whack at the dimensional dungeon pit, which is I died for the first time. For the record I'm playing Normal Mode. The third fight did me in but I should've backtracked once I saw how much harder the mobs were. Overall combat in the game is fairly straight forward once you get the system down.
The game feels a little bit busy with all the stuff going on but I'm having a blast. Good luck with development!
Thanks so much! Wario Land 4 was definitely something I had in mind as a tertiary inspiration. One of the big influences was The Great Cave Offensive from Kirby Superstar!
Thank you for playing. I hope you'll enjoy the rest of it when it's done :)
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I can't get treasure number 1 because the monsters won't jump out. I can tell where they're supposed to come from, they just don't appear.
I played this game before and it worked fine, so a recent update probably broke it. I think I got it from rpgmaker.net before.
On a lighter note, I named my companion Sesame because they remind me of a burger bun :)
Thanks for letting me know! I looked into this and it looks like it's still working as intended as far as I can see.
As a hint: The monsters don't need to jump out again; there's just something located near the spot to find.
I'll still keep an eye out for anything unusual though. Hope you enjoy this playthrough!
- Sgt M
They never jumped out to begin with.
Huh. Very strange.. I'll keep looking into this. Sorry that happened.
I tried walking into and interacting with every wall nearby and nothing happened.
great game, this is probs one of the best rpgs ive played, easily
one question, in which game engine was this made on?
Thank you for the high praise! Much appreciated.
The game was developed in RPG Maker MZ.
This was a really, really great piece!
It was a really good story where you could feel the bond and growth between Zosma and her partner.
The battle system is fun, and the combination of you, who can act multiple times, and your partner, who can act randomly and is not that strong, but is definitely the lifeblood of the party, is very good.
And the story at the end of the game was heartbreaking.
It was a good game experience, nya~!
Ding dong bro, What a tripConstant and spammy fight sucked me dry yet still, Ding dong bro
Thanks for the report! While I haven't been able to replicate this, I've updated the game to not softlock in case this happens.
Enjoying the demo so far, hope to be able to have the beefiest tank cat-blob thing by endgame. However I seem to have an issue where the game freezes up on entering the first random encounter in the Expanding Void.
That is strange! I'll have to investigate and see what's going on here, as I haven't been able to replicate the problem. Sorry that you've run into this :(
When is the cutoff point for the void dungeon achievements? Can the player still revisit old story areas as long as they don't enter the next story area? Also, how strong would the second story area be compared to the first void area?
How does the companion's AI work? Even when the party is at low HP and all the companion's points are invested in their healing skill, they're not guaranteed to heal the party, which is a problem because they're the only source of non-item healing at the moment. Is there a way to set the threshold for their healing skill?
Right now the companion's AI is admittedly pretty basic: It will choose from any of its available attacks at random, including its normal attack.
This is definitely something I'm looking to improve and rework as development continues! I apologize that the companion AI currently in place is rather simple at the moment.
The demos really cool!!
Maybe its the shiny new side-on battle view dazzling me, but I feel the animation and art are once again better than ever. Cute, charming, and super good lookin. Getting to see the party in battle now is a fun addition.
The new battle system is fun! Bossfights were rad and I had some real close calls even on normal. Still tryin to wrap my head around the combo system a bit. I get the basics, but i dunno, i have like a nagging feeling im not quite getting a full grasp of it just yet.
For whatever reason I'm like "there has to be a way to keep a combo going between from a shield remover and the Physical attacks that would benifit from removing that shield." I don't know why i think that, honestly I'm mostly talkin about this bit just to let it out of my system so i can stop thinkin about it. But again the battle system is fun.
All around a great time. I am already looking forward to the full game! Best of luck!
Thanks so much for playing! The battle system is quite experimental but I'm glad it sounds like it was a good time overall.
The game explores a lot of territory that we haven't tried before, like sideview battle perspective. So it means a lot to hear that it was positive change!
I'm looking forward to the finished game! I've loved your RPGs and this one reminds me a bit more of Brave Hero Yuusha than your Soma titles or Crescent Prism. The changeup in battle layout is a surprise as is the Sigil system. The whole setup with collecting treasures reminds me a bit of Wario Land 4 or I guess La Mulana or Pharaoh Rebirth. I don't usually see treasure hunting in rpgs outside of medals for tradeable-items, or just simply collecting equipment.
I've cleared the first boss and took a whack at the dimensional dungeon pit, which is I died for the first time. For the record I'm playing Normal Mode. The third fight did me in but I should've backtracked once I saw how much harder the mobs were. Overall combat in the game is fairly straight forward once you get the system down.
The game feels a little bit busy with all the stuff going on but I'm having a blast. Good luck with development!
Thanks so much! Wario Land 4 was definitely something I had in mind as a tertiary inspiration. One of the big influences was The Great Cave Offensive from Kirby Superstar!
Thank you for playing. I hope you'll enjoy the rest of it when it's done :)
Kirby Superstar Cave? Yeah I can see that. I'll finish playing the demo later and then binge Phobos. Thanks again, you're welcome, and good luck!