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Thanks for the feedback!

I agree that the locales are a little copy-pasty at the moment, but given that this is my very first foray into RPG Maker, I figured it'd make the most sense to start with something basic and work my way up into more detail. Depending on where the muse takes me, I might update some of the towns for later updates. As for G.U.T. headquarters being more modern, the basis for that is the founder/owner/CEO and his sister are immigrants from another kingdom with less magic, but more advanced technology to compensate, and they used that knowledge when setting up the company. Granted, that's not exactly explained in the game right now, but I'll probably add a couple NPCs into the main hall of the building for world building purposes.

Glad to hear it! I am very much a writer first and foremost, but I thought it was more important to get the actual gameplay details hashed out first before I get into the dialogue and such.

Balancing the battle system is very much next on my to-do list. The idea behind the multiple turns is that there's only one "party member" for the whole game, so the player would need more than one turn to handle troops with a large number of enemies. Also, the various weapon classes will have different numbers of turns, with more actions being balanced out by lower defense/attack and less actions being balanced out by higher defense/attack and access to AOE techniques. With the bosses, I agree that three turns of Devour>Digest>Digest would be too strong, but I was already planning to set things up so that bosses are immune to the state that the Digest skill targets, so there's no opportunity to cheese those in that manner.

Always great to see another enjoyer of peak! Granted, haven't played The Messenger myself, but Sea of Stars is the shit. While I agree that Glacial Peak would've been a good choice of OST for the "uninhabited" snow area, I didn't want to take too many songs from one game, which is why it's something of a balance. (If you know of a way I can make a little popup whenever a new song starts playing, please let me know, I want people to know where all the music came from.)