NEOK'S PROFILE

author=LockeZ
For a brief period in my map-making career, I decided that I had, up until then, been negligent about making sure that room sizes matched up to create whole buildings. Buildings shouldn't have empty black zones between rooms, right? There should be a room in between, and walls should all be exactly one tile thick, right? Sure, that makes sense, that's how real buildings look. So I decided to make sure, when you were in a dungeon that was a large building, that if you arranged every room side-by-side, they would all line up to create a building with no empty gaps between walls.

Yeah, I did that for my very first game. It just made for unnecessarily long corridors. It is a cool effect, though if you can have all those rooms actually be just on one map and not have any transitions for the area.

author=kentona
Yeah, it was about a year ago iirc. RIP.

Damn, news to me too. How did he die?

Hey, I remember this! Wow, it's so old now

Before I get anywhere I don't want to pull any social justice into this request but I would really appreciate someone who wouldn't bash me for my sexuality/gender and other disabilities. Thank you so much.

Don't make a big deal about it, and nobody else well.

'Nthing that you include some examples of what you can do!

Okay, I finished the game. Total play time was a little under eight hours, with average party level 23 or so. Did all the optional content, I think, though I left Tyrannos until the very end, since I didn't start looking for the purifying spring until after I had already beaten the final boss (Made him very underwhelming to say the least.) Only bosses that presented above average resistance were Aviinchi, and to a certain extent Anooki. Endgame was a breeze. My strategy was to have Laine do all the work, while the guys just stood there cowering in the corner, guarding every turn. Did not end up going to Rheis continent at all, nor did I get to go to the town just pass the tower with the final boss.

So things I like:
- Relatively openable and expansive world map, being able to go to future locations before the plot requires you to. Extra dungeons that you don't necessarily need to go into, but contain hidden goodies.
- Interesting equipment system. Liked that Patrick's weapons were more delay types, centered around inflicting status ailments instead of damage. Liked the variety of accessories available, and that weapons were more than just increases in damage output
- maps are gorgeous, have a hard time believing that this is all made with just RTP
- Varied skill sets for each member of the party, allowing them to fill 2+ niches.
- Wrath was a pretty cool feature. Not certain exactly what it did, but assumed that it's the same as fire emblem's wrath.
- Liked that guarding did more than just reduced dmg.
- Didn't really pay much attention to the story, but I did catch that Laine's suppose to be Cu-Chu's descendent. Thought that was pretty nifty.

Also, never really ever ended up using the trade system. I thought it had potential though, maybe if there were unique items or equipment they can only be gotten by trading, that'd give it more viability as a system.

Overall, it was pretty cool. About your characters, try to give them more varying emotions. Laine shouldn't just be the cool, no-nonsense soldier, Patrick be the soft-spoken opposed-to-violence well-mannered priest, the two knights be the red green Fire Emblem starter knights stereotypes (one who's silly and whimsical all the time, the other dutiful, chivalrous and always reprimanding his partner for not taking things seriously). Give Laine more endearing traits, like maybe she really likes children, but doesn't think it goes well with her image, so she tries to hide it from the others. Have her screw up once in a while. Make Patrick get uncharacteristically angry, or have him give in to temptation in a moment of weakness. Stuff like that is what makes for good characters and separates them from two-dimensional cookie-cutter stereotypes.