by SpectralTime » Fri Jun 08, 2012 9:25 pm
Writing and comments as I go, starting from just outside the first town.
Hmmm... I really, really like what you've done with the presentation of the battle system. From the floating numbers to the "An excellent hit!" displaying in the FIGHT and not the text box, it looks really good, and helps set you apart. I maintain that your visual DESIGN is very strong for this particular version of RPG Maker.
Gameplay-wise, pretty bog-standard weak enemies to balance the weak party. I WILL say that when I only get 100 Gold in a chest, I tend to groan, since that's barely enough to buy potions, and I detest grinding.
Lotta on-map enemies per square-foot in the woods, but considering the lack of random encounters I guess it's fair.
Did... did the Skull Knight just show up to save the day? Rock on! I'm always up for some undead good guys!
Oh... we're fighting him. Guess not then.
Look, it's seriously getting annoying. Why the balls don't we have direct control of Erik? His "loose cannon"-ness has borked up my battle plan more than once, and it might actually cause problems if the rest of the game isn't quite as easy!
...Oh. He's gone.
...Nuts. And here I thought he was gonna be evil... aw well. Maybe his undead form will regain his memories and let him be a good guy again. It's not impossible. I should know, having done it in OTHER RPGs.
Psssh. With pick up lines like that, no wonder he became a rapist bandit.
On the whole, I feel the game's designed a little too combat-heavy, with tons of random encounters and maps packed full of stage enemies. The fights aren't tough, but they ARE frequent and almost annoying without crowd-clearing magic. I'druther one of the mages get ahold of a mass nuke than fifty kinds of "hit one target" spell.
Huh. Guess the idiot rapists learned their terrible pick-up lines from their fearlessly suicidal leader. Psss. Couldn't root his gang out with an army my foot. A motley gang of under-equipped girls (most of them strangers without formal training in working as part of a unit) just walked through his gang like it wasn't even there. Yeah, I'm shaking in my high-heeled Adventuring Girl's Boots, buster. Let's rock.
Well. Any fellow Labrynth of Despair vets getting X-man flashbacks? Just like Xanrud, he's named and talks like a boastful 90's comic book character and hits like a truck, but if you've got the healing to keep up with him and the magic to get around his cheating boss evade, he's not so tough. Hope he doesn't pull a win out of his ass after I boot it up between his ears like the X-man... or, at least, that if he does I get to burn his hand off afterwards. You may talk a big game, but you're just a starter boss, buddy.
Oh, son of a... I'm actually angry that I called that!
Gee, I wonder what will happen now?
...That doesn't sound as good on paper without the biting sarcasm. Aw, well. A character's inability to use their powers or items when the cut-scenes and plot demand it has always been a thing.
Bwahahahaha! Sera looks as dubious and annoyed as me in that picture. That's hilarious! I am literally laughing out loud.
Oh, bandits... keep trying to sound cool. One of you has to do it by accident, after all. (This is not a slam on your writing. I assume that that was the idea.)
...Well, I'm not getting off on this. Especially not if Sera IS now Emmerzail, and thus a man pretending to be a woman. Though... I guess that MIGHT have been the point? Props?
I'm sorry, but this whole gang-rape thing didn't really start pushing my buttons until Sera started raping THEM to death (karma!) and, even then, it all got ruined when she turned into Emmerzail. Dick. Plus, you know, that's where it ENDS too.
...Seriously, though, that LAST image of her standing over all the drained bandits was pretty cool, even if she ruined it like two seconds later by turning into a man and growning a profusion of tentacle cocks. Who LETS herself get mouthraped like that? God gave you teeth for a reason, girls! Don't take any s^$# from this dickface!
...This is going to be problem unique to me, but it ties into the lack of a skip button. Remember how I use a gamepad to play RPG Maker games instead of the number pad? Well, the buttons are all borked up (A is Cancel, B is Accept, etc.), and I hit the wrong button when attempting to save my file for the chooser right before the "Pick your character" scene, thus skipping it altogether. I'll have to replay everything from the last time I saved, which was at the start of this thingummy, in order to get one.
I think I'll take a break now. Nuts...
Oh, and for the record... Hellsing Abridged was just okay. Catholic Priest jokes aren't really any funnier than similar Michael Jackson jokes, and Twilight jokes just plain weren't ever funny. Rest of it's... not bad? Really, as with most things Hellsing, Alucard is, sadly, probably the worst thing in it. Oh, they nail the voice perfectly, but... well, he's just not that funny.
Walter, however, is, as was the entire "Ve are Nazis!" segment. Did Alucard make that joke? If so, I guess that's one funny line. Mostly, I just skipped all his stuff.
Liked Seras, though, and I'll wait patiently for my favorite characters to actually show up... except Alexander, I guess. He wasn't too funny either, but I blame that on the writer not having the flow to put out a real rappin' Irish Catholic Vampire Stabber.
Ah, Alexander. Fight one of those "Humans are just cattle!" dicks, yell "Shoe's on the other foot now, bitch!" and then kill 'em deader than dead. If only there were room here for you...