Elyon Seraphim
Lord Deity of Harmony

Okay, this is it. Last time I'm fighting in this demo. If I win, great, if not, tell me about the ATB. I'll get back to you soon,.

BTW, I forgot to mention. I can't get to Heaven's Trial II normally. I try and leave, but I can't. And I defeated the four bosses, and I've opened the door, but I can't get out. So, teleporting...

Alright, Elyon, one more try.

I believe I'd played enough out of this to have my fun. I tried to defeat Shira, but I kpet having to deal with Cruel Force, so he was still about 1.2 million when he activated his annihilation move. It took almost an hour to get that far. I guess I'm just not good enough to beat him, and I was keeping status buffs up frequently, I used plenty of Super and Grand Elixirs, but he's too strong for me. Coincidentally, am I the only one testing this?

Now, I'd like to discuss a few things about the demos so far, and how we can make the final game better. (BTW, my questions about the ATB system still stands.) Now then, did you intend the X button to both open the menu and cancel? Its a touch awkward, and at times, its like confirmation as well. Maybe you could check it out and change menu to another button. You should also add a tutorial for these types of things. Nothing elaborate, just a text box explaining what to do. And speaking of tutorials, I assume they will be short as well? You may as well have Nova break the fourth wall and explain things that need to be. He does well with that job. xD

I'd like to ask, are the bosses we're facing their post-game versions? Assuming we'll be in levels around 35-50, these bosses can't be defeated. And the maximum experience required seems to end close to 5 million. That could mean the last few levels could requires very high amounts of experience, like 140000-200000! Are you able to insert experience requirements, or does the game do it automatically? I was thinking we could lock down levels, somewhat, to prevent overleveling. Like, say for an area, we don't want the player any higher than level 15. So, let's say the experience to get to level 15 was 800, and the experience to get to 16 is 5000. Something to convince the player to say "you're strong enough, proceed."

Perhaps we could discuss more game ideas while our deadline approaches? Wait... what is our deadline, anyway?

Fighting Nova, and his Omni Magic Chant: Thunder bypassed Miracle. But it didn't delete it, Ralz was dead, but it was still "active." Maybe you could check that out?

And now I have a snag. I'm against the other heroes, or whatever they call themselves, and I can't win. They keep reviving each other.

Hmm... thanks a lot for your mini-guide, Elyon! To tell the truth, I didn't really search for items because I figured the good items would be inside chests. (And to be even more honest, I did cheat and skipped right to the final boss. That's probably why I was underprepared.)

As for Shira Dimitri, I didn't really consider Elyon's new skills. (Guess I didn't scroll down xD) If that's the case, then both him and Ralz applying buffs at once would make the job easier. I was using Meigumi's Anger of Zeus a bit too much, because its damage was pretty decent against one enemy, and it charged her Overlimit gauge quickly. However, it was near useless on Shira, because of three targets, two of which are immune to it, and dealing about 39 damage at best, so I switched to healer mode for the rest of the fight.

You wanna know what was really killing me? Items. I never used my excess funding to load up on Super and Grand Elixirs. If I had that, I could let loose. But seriously, Elyon, I have to ask. Are Items reflected, too?

Anyway, I'm playing again today to see if I can defeat Shira. If not, I'll let you know.

You did a great job, Elyon. I particurarly liked Ralz's expanded need for cocoa. xD As well as seeing Nova despair about still not being in the party. And I knew Alther would just sit in the back corner with nothing to say but "..."

Now then, your time device is a wonderful thing. But what was the "???"? Is there a battle beyond Shira Dimitri? Speaking of Shira Dimitri, I'm serious when I tell you its insane. Its a great fight, but man it goes on and on and on...

Okay, here's my senario. On average, I can deal about 20000-30000 per round. Unless he puts up status buffs, in which that about halves. Meigumi's Anger of Zeus fills up her Overlimit gauge pretty quickly... assuming it hits Shira and not his Joy and Anger. Gift of the Goddess is a godsend, but items seem to suffer from the Reflect status as well. Can this be fixed?

And speaking of Anger of Zeus, what an upgrade to Meigumi. Before, she was just the white mage with no particular power to call her own. And now she's pretty useful, which is good. I also noticed that slightly less healing was required in this version, and that is excellent. All the previous versions had high-damage dealing enemies, and Meigumi had no choice but to keep healing. I think if you tweak it a little more, players can have a little more fun without so much worry of dying and re-establishing the costly Celestial Guidance.

Back to Shira Dimitri, though. Sorry to complain, but its a bit irritating. I was there for a staggering 40 or so minutes, with my total damage to him amounting to about 300000. What happened, you may ask? His Cruel Force move happened. When Reflect is not active, he restores ONE-HUNDRED THOUSAND HP to himself while reducing me to 1. Ouch. Doesn't help he did this twice in five minutes.

And dealing so very little damage at this point makes this boss go from a chore to a near-impossible endeavor. Seriously, I almost had him to 1 million, and a couple of Cruel Forces later, he's at 1.6 million. I can't keep up. It wouldn't be a problem if he had 500000 HP. Maybe you could consider either changing the HP totals of the bosses, or upping the damage the characters deal, because at this rate, no one will ever see the ending.

That's my mini-review on it. Now to get the plot in your hands so we can start on the real thing! Did you say you were using an ATB-like system for the actual game?

Alright.Thanks.

Agh. What do I need to do to fix this, again?

<-- excited!

BTW, Elyon, regarding the plot. You can basically add as menu text boxes as you want, or are you limited? What's the average capacity of each box, so we have neatness?

(Finally started developing plot, in its earliest stages)

I got it, now we are closer. I should be able to assemble several plots from this.

And of course you don't know what Plan B is, its PLAN B!!!!! Mwahahahahaahha!!!!

Sorry to spring this on you. Might you simply be able to show the roads you want to consider? Or split it amongst multiple PMs?

I'm glad I was finally able to get it done. I should have done this Mad-Libs thing sooner.

Fantastic! I'm now up an running, in a more permanent solution, permanent in that I should be good for yet awhile longer. I'll give you those notes now.

I'll get them to you as soon as possible. If you think up anymore categories, let me know. We're one step closer, Elyon, one step ever closer.