Thanks a lot the the detailed feedback and glad to hear you enjoyed your time with the game^^
And that is quite a lot of time! Defnitely sounds like you seen most of what the game has to offer. The broken phone could have been repaired in the abandoned Laboratory. And the Stone Building in the Tundra is a hidden secret area, it is very hard to reach on purpose, Getting a certain upgrade for the Owl from the Dojo makes it much easier to find and reach.
English unfortunately isn't my main language so I often only used google translate for spellchecking. If someone in the future should offer to help with the grammar I definitely would return and fix them. But good to hear it wasn't too bad.
Balancing definitely always was a difficult thing. I wanted exploring to feel rewarding so most of the more powerful skills like the Beehive Skill come from optional stuff. So people who get through the trouble to collect a lot of bees will get a powerful skill. But people who choose to ignore some side stuff and mainly follow the story would have a lot less powerful options. I would say the Hard and Lunatic are a lot more difficult, the enemies not only have higher stats but actually get brand new skills and on Lunatic every single enemy can use Ultimates against you. I think some strategies to cheese them would still possible but at it should be somewhat harder.
I absolutely agree. I actually was working on porting a few of the quality of life features from Journey of Transformation back to Adventure of Changes like the setting for Battle Animation Speed. Along with some bug fixes. This version will be up soon and should make fights a lot faster.
And I am happy to hear it you had fun with it. And yes this game actually is a sequel from the first game I made Orbs of Phantasm. Luca, Fii and Thiandra were some of the playable characters in that game and it played on the other continents. I just never publicly uploaded this game. It was a lot more simple and I mainly used it to learn how to use the rpg maker engine.
It also features a real time battle system and played similar to the tales of series with equipping skills to use in battle.
But nothing of lore is required to understand the plot of Adventure of Changes, I made sure it does not rely too much of that games story. It mainly just plays in the same world.
And thanks a lot for playing. Looking forward to hearing your feedback on that game as well if you decide to play it^^