Kitsu casts wall of text.
Got a wee bit bored and wanted to play with the first post a bit to add a few random things.
Random stuff!
- The majority, if not all of the portraits are mine, depending on if what are currently placeholders are made permanent. Or if anyone helps out. So there might be a unique portrait style if you like looking at character portraits!
- Quite a large number of custom animations, a few are mine, although the majority are by the wonderful people who donated them to repo!
- Custom Items! Everyone in Book I has a personal weapon by the end, a select few even have two. The other books also have a few personal weapons not just attached to the ‘lord’ characters.
- Light magic has its own identity. Anima is the normal magic with no special effects, Dark is the weird magic with lots of strange effects, while Light has passive auras and buffs to help with support. (There are some exceptions, like Jormungand being a standard, mid-level Dark tome, or Resire being a Light tome that siphons HP)
- Experimentation! Most books will play differently in some way, with different systems, while you may not like something of a particular book, you may yet find something you adore about the other ones. (I do a ‘dev playthrough’ for those who wish to skip any books in favour of just watching and not missing any potentially important story beats!)
- Many… many characters for people to
obsess over! find neat!
- Different races if you like the spice of characters not just being Humans and sometimes Manaketes and/or Laguz!
While I’m here I may as well just ramble about random stuff. Did you know that a Koala’s fingerprints are so alike to humans that they can be mistaken for-- huh? That’s not the random stuff you wanted to hear about? Well, alright… uhhhh…
How about random Book 0 changes then? Wyvern Rider/Lord was renamed to Drake Rider/Lord because those things aren’t Wyverns mumblemumble. Although that won’t really matter until they start appearing. I wanted to add a bonus EXP thing that tosses 50 EXP to undeployed characters so they can remain relevant through the game if you needed them later on, adding it during the first chapter with a battle preparations menu and then saw basically that exact system is a thing in that Pyrathi Warlords hack, so uh… there goes any originality I had, hah.
And Book II things? Well uh… I’m thinking its length will be around 5 main chapters (With two follow-up chapters, so 7 main chapters, only 5 you choose in the chapter select), and 5 side chapters. The 5th side chapter will probably be in the same vein as the 4th side chapter of Book I, being ‘mostly’ unrelated to Book II, but will make sense later if I remember to do everything right.
There’s a pretty high possibility for Books I.5 and II.5 because i’m a kingdom hearts because I keep forgetting about important bits, and they can’t fit in Books I and II, but these will probably be shorter hacks with a more normal progression instead of chapter selects.
I might also do a remake of Book I with my more recent knowledge, story will probably be about the same, but y’know, a bit more of my meagre balancing knowledge being used, and also to convert to buildfiles, I dunno if the skill count will be downed or kept as is, since some dialogue is attached to them.
Book III will very likely also be normal progression if it goes as it really should, a culmination of all of the previous books!
Big project. Very big. But that’s alright, it’s fun to play with.
There ‘is’ possibility for sequel and prequel books as well, since… it’s a very large world with many many stories to tell, but, one step at a time. Please do have a pleasant day!
