VIDEOWIZARD'S PROFILE

HP: That thing that keeps you alive. Should this hit zero, you're going to be set back a bit.
MP: Magic Power. If this hits zero, additional spells do MP cost * 10 = HP damage instead. Self healing is blocked until MP reaches the cost of the spell, but you can certainly heal others.

MP = 0, Heal = 3 MP. The user would get 30 HP damage.
MP = 2, Heal = 3 MP. The user would only get 10 HP damage.

LV: The level you are on, controls things like revival costs, inn stays, spell damage, enemy encounters, or even the title screen you get to see. Also functions as basic defense or strength.
Revival costs are similar to Dragon Quest, 10 * level. At level 99 it would cost 990 gold to revive. Stronger monsters might appear in earlier areas of the journey to keep things interesting.

Strength/Defense: A high physical attack leaves you open to spells (0%), and a high magical attack leaves you open to physical skills/attacks. It's basically a balancing act.

A 100% physical attack lowers magical defense to 0%.
A neutral attack sets both strength and defense to 50%.
A 100% magical attack lowers physical defense to 0%.

Skills tend 10% toward physical or magical with each use, inverting after 100% or 0%.
Say you do 60 damage with a sword when physical strength is 50%. That would be 120 damage at 100%, but ZERO damage at 0%. Basically the game is telling you to stop spamming enter.

Similarly, if you normally do 100 damage with a fire spell assuming no resistances/absorptions/weaknesses, you would do 200 when magical strength is at 100%, and again zero damage at 0%. It's time to stop spamming magic!

Also, if an enemy does 30 damage normally, it will do 60 damage if your defense is 0% and 0 damage at 100%. Keep in mind a family of four is going to do about 10-20% of max HP worth of damage at a normal level, so this can become deadly fast.

Okay, I write reviews (sometimes), I play games (sometimes), have a games released topic, and am trying to figure out how to make the RM2k3 battle system go faster than a snail's pace. Setting the agility to 999 didn't work.

It looks like setting it around 250 works, so the characters will at least get to attack once per five seconds, rather than 40 seconds. Still seems a bit slow, though. I wonder if there's a patch for that?

V That's different from the usual "use RPG Maker VXP" response, for sure.

author=KingArthur
We aren't having the featured game shoved down our throats.

Actually. Legendary Legend is there every time I click on the front page, and is in The Latest News section, and in the Latest Reviews section. You'd think it was December Fools Day yesterday or something, except it's still there today.

Why work so hard when games that deserve 2 to 2.5 stars are featured? It's stunningly average or even sub-standard when gameplay is included. The first part of gameplay has the word game. Without gameplay, there is no game. Otherwise, I might as well read a webcomic or graphic novel.

It is a good sample of what to expect out of our RPG Maker games, which is rather depressing as calunio pointed out.

author=Zephyr
And why the hell Golden Sun: Dark Dawn's release date was pushed from November into December...
GOD DAMMIT GIMME!

I was wondering what you meant, because I remembered seeing it saying "available November 29th" this morning, but upon closer look, it says December 10th for Europe. And December 2nd for Australia for some reason (?). So it's just November 29th for the Americas.

That said, it's almost a simultaneous worldwide release, at least it being Q4 in all territories (released October 28th in Japan). It's just a shame that EMEAA is treated as a third rate region.

Hooray for including one all of my levels! I'll be sure to play it them, as well as the others, of course.