Good point. Suggestions about what to do with it?
Hmm, maybe a graphics call of Haste on the party and Slow on the enemy? Or perhaps a Lit-1 graphic hitting the party to show higher speed? It's a difficult thing to show since it's a dual effect in a system that doesn't naturally use such things.
You and I talked about it, and the decision was that as long as elemental monsters still had a chance to kill the player, then their presence was passable... The situation will be under ongoing review, though...
That's true and as the game has gone on I've seen where these rings seem all but essential to access some side content or to defeat bosses that you aren't meant to defeat in such manners. It's fair for now then.
Well, unless I've erred, you only have one headband. And this is a status-heavy battle...
Not if you have Blank, that gives you two Headbands, heh. Blind isn't really the problem in that fight I feel. Curse is the issue at hand. Blind is moderately irritating but Curse is a "Heal Now or Die!" sort of status. It also doesn't provide much defense in any measure. Against the Gaea Hat and the Headband it seems difficult to justify its purchase.
Yes. As a matter of fact, P/P provide very little benefit beyond healing. The tentacles use an invisible full-cure ehren hit by Palom's magic. The real key is a strong non-Palom lightning assault.
With Thunder Kunai only and Lit Arrows, I assume? I'm not sure I agree with an invisible full-heal in this case, especially since there's no indication that Black Magic isn't doing anything. Wouldn't it have been more reasonable to just give them high magic defense that Palom couldn't break through indicating to the player that this plan of action can't work?
It's my dream to eventually put in a card game, but the full version 1 has to be completed first. The ROM will almost definitely need to be expanded, which would break FF4kster compatibility.
Even still, I have no plans or ideas how I would make it work...
I do wish that we could somehow change FF4kster to look at offsets rather than see what the whole rom is doing at a given time. It may be something to ask PinkPuff about down the line. I am all for mini-games in FFIV. Even with some creative thinking you could make some mini-games out of the battle system.
He does show shades of a tender side up on the Highwind Pass, but mostly he's meant to be kind of an asshole. Sort of I'm!portant to the story, as I think you know.
It's sort of refreshing to have a hero character who second-guesses the party's every move instead of blindly following along.
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Wow, you're able to steal Cure3's from Armadillo's in Mist Cave? Not sure if that's an oversight or reward for exploration.
It may be a glitch ZSNES, but the Mist Cave's Mist is over top the cave's graphics so it's literally a wall of mist, granted that can be easily dealt with through getting rid of that background layer.
I forgot to mention that I really like the Dark Wave animation you used for Ceodore, looks great!
This is my first time reaching Rydia with Ceodore, I rather like his addition in the dialogue and the clear idea that he prefers being called "Ceo" over "Ceodore". Nice touch!
After Ceodore says "But-!" Rydia says "Don't worry
aout me."
Well, I barely survived the fight with the Mist Dragon. Am I wrong, or can you not hit it physically At All anymore? I noticed you can hit it physically while it's Mist but that has a really nasty counter attack and rather low damage for the effort. I did manage to steal the Dragon Claws though, so that will be nice. Only Rydia and Furio were left alive at the end there.
So Highwind Pass is now completable? Perfect! I'll give my full review of that in short order. First I better pick up some items though. I ran out of Life Potions in the battle with the Mist Dragon.
It seems like enemies have been much better balanced despite Rydia heavily increasing the party's level average the enemies are still reasonable to fight.
After about 15 minutes of fast-forwarding I finally caught a Chocobo! So I'll be able to see what this cave is. I'm still not sure on the wisdom of having the Chocobo be so rare, but maybe I just got really unlucky. That would have easily been 45 minutes to an hour in real time though.
...And that would be why Chocobo are so rare in these parts. 15 Speed from the Feather Ring, goodness gracious!
Hah, Chocobos can travel over the Shallows, that's likely going to be important later.
Jump Points in Highwind Pass, hmm? Neat idea.
This is an impressive map you put together here, it really shows the detail of the underwater basin map tiles!
Hmm, I assume there is no way to reach that outcropping just to the North of the cave entrance is there?
Oh hey, new music and new tileset to make the mountain Icy, nice touch!
That battle background looks great! I especially love the pink sunset.
Wow, Ice Claws from Leopards! Nice Steal indeed.
Wait a second here... how did you break one of the overriding commandments of FFIV? Thou Shalt Have the Main Character in the middle of the screen at all times? NPC versions of Furio for each screen? That's going pretty far for a cinematic effect!
And that's the game... killed by the Grenade.
I wasn't sure about this music before, but now that I see how it's being used it fits very well!
New plan give the Feather Ring to Rydia so she can hit the Grenade before it explodes.
Hmm, a FireBomb, a nice enough prize for the effort it takes with a little planning.
Another Grenade another party wipe...
So the Ghost Knight used "Absorb" which started to petrify one of my Party Members.
Well, Level 20 so Furio now has Pin, that will be useful. Did you plan on doing anything with Smoke? I'm sure you're aware it's entirely useless.
Ah great! Another Cure Staff. I did forget to take mine off of Porom when she left anyhow.
Finally, a Save Point!
You even added an icy background for in caves, it looks wonderful!
That Snow Dragon does not fool around, but he does have Ether2's to Steal. Let's get the Frozen Ring back on Rydia then.
A new sword for Ceodore, neat. But... the name "Broadsword" is a bit misleading. Broadswords in FF are normally the first weapon one gets. Since this raises Vitality and Will by 5 it should probably have something more fitting like "Knight" or "Blessed" or something of that ken.
Well! Running into Kain out of nowhere was unexpected! Considering he's dead and all.
Hmm, Kain's attacking animation looks strange, not so much Kain himself, but the Deathbringer is a fair distance away from him when he swings it... the wrong way. Also the delay between Kain landing and attacking afterwards seems a bit extreme.
Oh I see, that delay automatically is killing every living party member that's not Ceodore.
Alright, so it's not a Cecil-to-Paladin sort of deal you are expected to win...
Seems as if I'll need to put the Feather Ring on Ceodore to even keep up with Kain. This actually is a rather powerful combo with the Darkness Armor since it gives him some much needed Attack Multipliers without losing one.
We'll see if Vitality is worth the drop though.
Ah, you can inflict Blind on Kain! Nice usage of Status!
While the fight is a great idea I wonder if Kain has a little too much HP, once you inflict Blind the fight is all but a foregone conclusion and that delay in some of Kain's actions really hurts the flow of it all. Granted my Ceodore was only Level 17, maybe it's different at higher levels.
All in all, an interesting concept. I am curious if we will find out more of who would be raising the ghosts of the dead to fight on their behalf.
Ah, FFII SNES with your amazingly obvious secret passages. Probably the reason there's nothing too ground breaking in that cache.
So, that's the end of the demo. A fantastic new addition! I really liked the dungeon, but a few oddities here...
The pictures above showed another battle with Shiva along with Rydia mentioning something about her magic. Were these beta plans and had to be changed as the story demanded, or are they just not fully implemented yet?
I enjoyed all of the new content and found it to be moderately challenging all throughout!
I will be addressing your new post in an edit, but I'll post this for now.
EDIT: Post addressed!
We have EVEN MORE themes now, but some old ones are gone...
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