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Yuusha EX - A Mid-September Sporadic Update
Well! It's been a fair while since I've really sat down and talked with ya'll about Yuusha EX. The short version is that even with a lot of big life changes like moving and starting a new job, things are coming along very well. I guess you can stop reading there, unless you'd like some juicy details.
Progress-wise, I've got about 3/4ths of the first major pass (of at least 2 or 3) at revising the main game completed. About 80% of the graphical assets have been redrawn, including nearly all of the tiles, monster graphics, sprites, and battlebacks. This has been by far the most time-consuming change, but it's mostly over and done with. Hooray!
The second big change you'll find in EX is that the combat has been completely reworked and rebalanced. By far the most common criticism of Brave Hero Yuusha was its low difficulty and that the game was more or less a cakewalk. While there won't be much in terms of new core battle mechanics, I'm hoping to make the combat a more satisfying challenge for newcomers and returning players alike.
Party members will also have new and revised abilities at their disposal. The Hero, for example, has a skill called Bravery that makes their next turn a leap of faith.
There's plenty more that I want to share about Yuusha EX, so I hope you'll sit tight for a bit longer while I get this bad boy up and running.
For now, please enjoy our old friend The Whale in his natural habitat:
Progress-wise, I've got about 3/4ths of the first major pass (of at least 2 or 3) at revising the main game completed. About 80% of the graphical assets have been redrawn, including nearly all of the tiles, monster graphics, sprites, and battlebacks. This has been by far the most time-consuming change, but it's mostly over and done with. Hooray!
The second big change you'll find in EX is that the combat has been completely reworked and rebalanced. By far the most common criticism of Brave Hero Yuusha was its low difficulty and that the game was more or less a cakewalk. While there won't be much in terms of new core battle mechanics, I'm hoping to make the combat a more satisfying challenge for newcomers and returning players alike.
Party members will also have new and revised abilities at their disposal. The Hero, for example, has a skill called Bravery that makes their next turn a leap of faith.
There's plenty more that I want to share about Yuusha EX, so I hope you'll sit tight for a bit longer while I get this bad boy up and running.
For now, please enjoy our old friend The Whale in his natural habitat:
Announcement
Brave Hero Yuusha EX
Well, I'll be frank. Brave Hero Yuusha is a game that holds a special place in my heart. After years of smaller projects, Yuusha was the first game I made that used all custom resources and attempted something on a larger scale than what I had been doing up to that point. Out of every game I've ever made, I think Yuusha was the one I was the happiest with.
While I've been working on and off on Crescent Prism over the last year and a half, I've admittedly been looking for a smaller scale project to help stave off the ever-looming threat of burnout. So for the past month or so, I've been looking back on the game I remember the most fondly and hoping to give it a bit of a facelift for a new generation of gamers (which by that I mean the exact same generation of gamers from the last time).
So came the idea of Brave Hero Yuusha EX.
The EX version will feature a number of improvements from the base game, with new visuals that aim to look a fair bit cleaner, more colorful, and more stylized. There will also be a newly-reimagined OST from Agent Ape, with the original soundtrack included so you can switch back and forth at any time! Some additional postgame content is also planned, so there's plenty of reason to give it a second go.
Also new to this version is the choice between male and female appearances for the hero, which you can change at any time:
You can also now skip random encounters when you are strong enough, similar to Crescent Prism:
And there you have it! I hope you'll all enjoy the second go at Yuusha when it's finished. So please look forward to more updates in due time.
While I've been working on and off on Crescent Prism over the last year and a half, I've admittedly been looking for a smaller scale project to help stave off the ever-looming threat of burnout. So for the past month or so, I've been looking back on the game I remember the most fondly and hoping to give it a bit of a facelift for a new generation of gamers (which by that I mean the exact same generation of gamers from the last time).
So came the idea of Brave Hero Yuusha EX.
The EX version will feature a number of improvements from the base game, with new visuals that aim to look a fair bit cleaner, more colorful, and more stylized. There will also be a newly-reimagined OST from Agent Ape, with the original soundtrack included so you can switch back and forth at any time! Some additional postgame content is also planned, so there's plenty of reason to give it a second go.
Also new to this version is the choice between male and female appearances for the hero, which you can change at any time:
You can also now skip random encounters when you are strong enough, similar to Crescent Prism:
And there you have it! I hope you'll all enjoy the second go at Yuusha when it's finished. So please look forward to more updates in due time.
Announcement
A Year Ago Today!
Brave Hero Yuusha is celebrating it's first year anniversary today! Even a year later, people still occasionally talk to me about this game and their experience with it. Thanks to folks like yourselves, the dream is still very much alive.
As of this writing, the full game has been downloaded almost 1500 times and the game page has over 52,000 pageviews! And to be honest, I would have been happy with even a fraction of that. Yuusha's success exceeded all of my expectations and really brought about the confidence I needed to work on games like Soma Spirits and beyond.
It's hard to believe that it's only been a year. Sometimes, Brave Hero Yuusha feels like a distant memory that I finished ages ago, but regardless, I will always reflect on it as my first "real" game project. Here's to even greater projects in the future!
As of this writing, the full game has been downloaded almost 1500 times and the game page has over 52,000 pageviews! And to be honest, I would have been happy with even a fraction of that. Yuusha's success exceeded all of my expectations and really brought about the confidence I needed to work on games like Soma Spirits and beyond.
It's hard to believe that it's only been a year. Sometimes, Brave Hero Yuusha feels like a distant memory that I finished ages ago, but regardless, I will always reflect on it as my first "real" game project. Here's to even greater projects in the future!
