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i ran from everything until i got the evil sycthe, then switched to gleaming cleaver at the very end... which i think was a mistake lol

edit: i did really like "five gatekeepers" as a meta-joke lol

LMAO

Yeah, I hate Discord for anything but DMs so I leave servers pretty often, sorry! Nothing personal to anyone there.

I'm really glad to hear a Cedar shout-out. Everyone loves Karin and Uuva, nobody loves Cedar any. Poor guy. I definitely made Queensblade too easy to get but maybe that's just how it needs to be to give people a leg up.

Despite pre-empting me: thank you for seeking the dragon! Really appreciate hearing you tried it multiple times.

you're so good at gam mak.

got 30 and then 60 years on my next two runs ~

absolute jumpscare of a statline

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(i just went up and down staircases for a bit to see what would happen)

i did immediately guess the gimmick cuz there's no way you'd use dalig for just a single-target boss fight!

the meta knowledge part of it is neat though. unlike doll i actually didn't get any woofy drops for a long time but i was like... i know these fuckers are gonna drop some healing eventually right? lo and behold, precious dog meat. thankfully the one carol i encountered 1) immediately got zerk'd by dalig's badass scriptures and 2) dropped a sacred blood that let me get the rest of the way through

but, i do think i like this less than dalig's first go-around. it was satisfying to succeed but the dungeon is purely a monster tripwire this time -- not that i, craze, of all people am going to complain about that, but in this particular case i found the gatekeeper puzzle to be more compelling, especially when sharing the game with friends and not telling them shit. some chests to lure you off the path might have helped (i know the struggles with switches in the time limit there lol)

re: your reply to doll, i do think a slower burn fight would work better because it would make dalig's attack spell drain her way more overall on the expected first try. i actually spammed it plenty and still managed to get through.

edit: i did not make it clear enough how much i liked QUOTE SCRIPTURE as a new tool though. really loved when like, each enemy got a different status effect. offensive oration that felt sticky and useful was fun

beat it first try. glad she's back!!!

thank you for seeking the dragon.

the 2k3 battle system is so funny. any tweaks to AGI just destroy it. i felt that letting uuva do that with the tradeoff of her also being the best potential nuker (if you choose to spend gold on her runes) was pretty fair lol

howdy. i love this pack and have used it for multiple jam games now. it's got a really good spread.

however, if you were ever to update it, my vote would please be for a spider! it's like the only classic monster i feel is missing.

either way, i will continue to use and love this pack. it has that retro feel you're so good at while being suitable for modern resolutions/palettes. impressive work

thank you for seeking the dragon (and the big compliment ~ )!

this is such a wonderful idea. you really translated the elements of baseball into deckbuilder mechanics well. would love to play an expanded version of this in the future too

this one felt like a cross between waldemar's game and aria's poison rpg, where movement is really important and actively hostile to you.

i think i agree with the slightly less punishing scorps would make the desert areas a bit more interesting. i found that one little corner toward banzu where you must walk over two sand patches both thrilling and horrifying.

i would like to say that the one time on a near-winning run that i crossed a tiny bit of desert after killing a field slime, just next to the oasis, too, supposedly rerunning the encounter clock... i won the lottery and got the fabled "immediate next step is also an encounter" blessing of an iron scorp. i'd like to think this was intentional and hard-coded into my copy.

e: i do think that this is an improvement on your goals for waldemar's, ftr!

this would be really, really good with tank controls

jesus would NOT survive 40 days in this desert

Oh sick, nice update!

sometimes a smooch is a gulp

okay, given the title and the size of the world map i assumed there was something to do with secret entrances but i couldn't find any edgemashing and somehow, despite trying like 8 times, never found any in the dungeon LOL

i do think it's an aspect of dungeoning worth exploring though. something i feel a lot of amateur rpg designers fail to understand is just how much the typical jrpg compounds its power progression -- gold, exp, new spells, dungeon knowledge, path unlocking, etc. all make things easier in a multiplicative way. breaking a game down into one solitary aspect of that (in this case, length of attrition/path unlocking) is a more than worthwhile sketch even if i couldn't figure it out ;;

edit: even if you think your lessons learned are simple, remember you're not the only one. your fanclub is also playing/sharing these and picking up/reaffirming ideas from them ~

Thank you for seeking the dragon.

I feel pretty similarly re: roguelikes lol. Glad you enjoyed it and got exactly what I wanted folks to get out of it, out of it!

...even if it's off-screen, eh.

Glad you had fun! Thank you for seeking the dragon.

Did you try the well and both the north and south exits of town? Otherwise you may be the second person to break it, oops;;

Thank you for seeking the dragon, glad you enjoyed it!

I actually thought that backtracking idea was what was going to happen, but I couldn't find Nouf despite trying so I wound up just getting to Valdivia from Luwoll.

I love the idea of a game like this with trading between ports and such. I wanted to make one for a jam a while back that was on a huge landlocked sea but after a couple of days the evil kraken queen would start tormenting you or w/e, putting your smooth sailing on a time limit. One day, one day...

And so, Paw Pie lived happily(?) ever after, chewing their kraken jerky...

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what a cool game!! i love the char swapping for speed vs interactions

thank you for seeking the dragon!

Thank you for seeking the dragon, and for hosting the jam so I could attempt one last(?) rm2k3 miracle LOL

Thank you for seeking the dragon. 

Yeah, the loading takes a bit cuz it's trying to make sure the random hook-ups can reach the town and final boss within two transfers from the world map or town.  Some maps are definitely missing each run cuz I didn't just want to like, swap single-exit maps with each other... I wanted it to be really random. I decided I was cool with this and just added a couple ways to heal throughout. I especially like it cuz it means it's really rare to get all four characters' ultimate weapons so you're more invested in drops (or if you're lucky enough, stores lol).

Glad you appreciated the crunchy flavor. Thanks again.

Enjoying where I'm at so far with this. The concept of a "poison rpg" is really, really good. Buuuut yeah it's so hard lol, I'm a bit stuck at how I'm supposed to burst down all these DireTrees without any more ways to refill Serenade. Quick Sky doesn't seem to be fast enough to do it.

I'll try again in a little bit, though. I'm curious where it goes.

i did not realize i could end the musical performance so i simply Witnessed. i am no longer bereft of god

Hello,

Just left a positive Steam review but wanted to bring up a concern here as well. The description mentions spears and multiple keys in the icon set. These are not included! There's not a single spear and only one golden key. 

Adding at least one spear and a simple brass/iron key would be much appreciated.

Nice set otherwise, thanks!

edit: also the hp/mp debuffs are swapped

yes i loved 'cave bird' lol. maybe second to 'bog champ' in #4

yeah i had a similar experience -- all the highs and lows of rpg maker football without the concerns. i just liked wailing on shit and restarting to get better luck vs the ressurectoids lol. liked this one quite a bit!

almost as good as a dog goblin

gem wife...

i got to the hemiangel (barely) on my first try so like peb i was able to immediately click like, "yeah i knew dark mgaic would have to be good for something!!!!"

does that fit what you wanted? unsure. maybe being genre savvy undermines the point. thankfully, i think the atmosphere (especially that tagline, "a mountaintop is like an altar"... oooooh that's so good) helps carry it. i think if anything, after years of mapping and slow-walking perverts on GamingW disillusioned me, Dalig and Sacrifice have reminded me that rm2k can produce mind-bogglingatmosphere out the wazoo even with just rtp.

anyway i beat it second try. i think this is my favorite behind dalig. (third is waldemar's ranch party currently)

okay i had no idea the vigilantes even existed because i realized what the trick was the second i posted my comment on the gamepage lmao. i did wind up still going south but then just veered around randomly until hey, i found myself in jamestown

i like what you were going for!

immediately died trying to run from a griffon. as god intended

some responses...

1) the effect on running is actually what really got me. i was kinda confused as to what your Point was for a bit outside of figuring out the goat eaters live in forests... then i tried to run from one with some sheep and oh no.

2) i got A rank in three tries (i died very quickly my first time cuz yeah, i thought i could Courage the sheep). i didn't use Courage once that last time, and i wasn't sure there was an S rank so i didn't exclusively dog goblin my way through

3) yeah ankle melters were iffy. i only saw them once (likely due to dog goblin proliferation) and just used Blizzard. 

4) i will agree that the routing was w/e for the two western sheep, but i really liked the north-eastern sheep because it's got tons of mountains and a HUGE forest between it and the ranch. seeing the big path around the forest on my second try was what made sorta put the whole game together mentally

i like this one! while i guess i agree with your personal concerns, i think for a one-hour sketch its a fun idea executed well enough to 'get it' and enjoy. TAKE THAT

dog goblins are my best friends

That was neat, the bosses really kept me on my toes. The ATB hack (I believe?) to make the bars fill up faster in the first half meant you really had to be quick about healing, curing states, etc., which I enjoyed.

The story didn't really do anything for me but its such a short game that I don't mind. I was okay with the slow walking speed at first because I thought it was going to be a fairly somber game, but then it wasn't so ultimately it annoyed me since I kept trying to go back and see if various things were changed by the story. (There's an air of secrecy about progression, so I misinterpreted having to do some extra stuff. That's just how I play games though!)

Overall, really impressive to put together in a few weeks. The cutscenes are quite well-directed which was fun to see. I also got a kick out of one of the spell names being very blunt.