Hello, I played through your hack and had a pretty good time.
However, there are some things I want to mention:
I lost Walter and Lorri (cuz I suck) but they were somehow revived on chapter 3. Even though I could use them, the game still thought they were dead, causing my turn to end whenever I moved all my ‘alive’ units but skipping the dead ones (Deven acted as a dead unit as well, even though I did not let him die).
Deven joined on chapter 3 without weapons and vanished from my roster at the start of chapter 4. There was also some text hidden behind a black screen at the end of chapter 3 so I couldn’t read it.
I couldn’t finish chapter 4 since it doesn’t end when killing the boss.
As for game balance, it felt fine to me. Although I have to say that Lapiz and Samson were a bit OP, making it rather easy to juggernaut with those two. (Or maybe my level ups were just lucky?)
All in all, I did have fun with the game! It could definitely use some polish on a lot of things, but that is to be expected when a project is still early in development.
Personal life hits hard but I am back and up and running to finish Act 1 for Y’all to enjoy. I know its been a while but as a solo dev I know my work is cut out to be huge. But its safe to say that I have new proofs of concepts to show in the development process! Enjoy!!
PLAYTEST 2.0 UPS IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR OPEN BETA TESTING!
This rom covers Chapters 0-6 (With one Gaiden Chapter).
If you want to send your reviews, you can either comment on the google link below or reply to the thread directly. Otherwise, I’ll set up a tier list maker of all the units in the hack so far and see if you like them or not.
Just a random thought but… would anyone be interested if I started writing an original English light novel (OELN) of my romhack? I had so much world building added that I can’t compress everything into the game. Just something random that went into my head.
On chapter 2 of Fire Emblem: Visions of Liberation I trained Lorri to level 10 for literally no reason at all just to see what skill she got at level 10.
Other than that ,this hack is easy (imo) and if you do add more difficulty or options I think you should increase enemy stats quite a bit. Some enemy units have 2, and 3 speed and barely any defense
Hey Kittenlover! Thank you for giving it a try. It is still in the early stages of development still and your feedback is definitely appreciated. I guess giving the convoy class a movement buff at 10 as a way to indicate it cannot promote sounds like iffy game design. I’ll see what I can do to better my hack.
As for the difficulty, I was not expecting it to be easy (even though I did plan for it to be a mixed bag of both easy breather chapters and hard grind chapters). But either way, the more comments I see the better. Goes to show what I need to change and not change. Thank you so much!
If you have the time, feel free to go through the google form or maybe expound more on what you like and what you don’t like about the hack as a way for me to get insight on what works and what doesn’t work. Hope you enjoyed still!
Also… I started road mapping what I want to do for the long run for this hack. Here are some things I wanna try and implement here, but no promises if everything will be pushed through. It is my VISION after all Ba Dum TSS
Anyways, here’s some Behind the scenes stuff I had been planning all day.
Aww. Thank you so much. I really dunno how to respond to this since I am more used to getting criticism about my hack. But I hope you have a good time experiencing trying out this story I made in the hack! Along with the cast too! I’ll be sure to keep things posted here!
Wow, new hack. Awesome. The main lord’s name is Lapiz, which means “pencil” in my language (I love it). And there is a original map for the game, too. Skills, “diverse supports” which I guess it means multiple B supports and one A instead of the limited vanilla GBA supports… Looking good right now. The only thing I don’t like so much is the character design, they don’t look as attractive or original to me as others from other hackroms but hey, you can’t have everything in life. I’ll watch your career with great interest.
Edit: your profile picture is amazingly well drawn, where did you find it (and can I have a link to it)?
Thank you for showing interest in my hack. Upon reading your reply, I think I need to clarify more on what I meant by “Diverse Supports”. Nothing in terms of gameplay changes however I would like to think more in regards to story-gameplay integration. For instance, a support convo changes depending on the promoted class choice. Other times, I would write it based on when the support happens in terms of chapter count. Or something that I am pitching in my head being based on what the unit’s level is (AKA to those people who only bring filler units just for the support).
As for the portraits, I am still new to pixel art (I am a photographer by my trade/career) so I am still learning. But as you said, I cant have everything available LMAO.
And lastly for my PFP, its an alpha design of Lapiz I commissioned my close friend to make. I’m not gonna disclose them since they’re really just that shy and does not have any clue with Fire Emblem. I just described the character as if its my DnD OC.
But either way, I appreciate the support shown for the hack! Expect lots soon!
Yaay! Progress! I am surprised that I am ahead of schedule before the next playtest. Maybe I should make a discord server now for Visions of Liberation? But yaay! Progress!
Really cool to see your progress, from one Liberationhacker to another. (My project is called Liberty’s Beacon, lol) What do you use to keep track of your to-do list, other than Google docs?
Hey Candy! Yes. I love keeping you guys posted on what is going on. The site I use to keep track of my progress is called Trello. It is a site where you can make different lists for different things. I use it as my to do list and compile different info such as playtest reviews and my to do lists on what to put in the next updates. Right now I am still working on my thing for the next beta ver. But my target is to finish Act 1 before FEE3 nontheless. Hope you enjoyed looking through me doing progress works like this
