This looks very promising, I can see the potential. As a christian myself I would like to offer my feedback.
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Okay so first off I am putting this out there that I have not played vanilla fe8.
As I boot up the game I notice that there is no text on the normal mode option, when I go to the hard mode option it has text that is words that describe the mode, and then if I move my cursor back over the normal mode option it has text like it should. As for the gameplay, Iâll get back to you on that as I am currently playing through the prologue. I did notice that you removed the cutscene after the exposition dump, do you plan on replacing that sometime in the future or just do without it. If it is the latter a shame because I was looking forward to see demon Valter early on.
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Greetings I have returned.
Thoughts on Prologue
I played the prologue, I have a few thoughts and I will understand if you choose to ignore all of them because in the end what does it matter.
When Seth tells Erika that they must warn King Hayden of the âdemon Invasionâ that phrase seems off because demons are all around hiding in the shadows staying out of sight, so to say âinvasionâ makes it seem as though the demonic forces wereânt already there lurking in the corner wait for just the right moment of weakness to strike. I think the word tresspass would be more appropriate as it shows that there is this unspoken agreement (for lack of a better word) between God and the demons. When they decided to make physical war with the humans they violated that understanding.
Next thought when Seth presents the silver rapier to Erika he says âthe creatures of hell harbor a weaknessâ to say creatures reside in hell is incorrect only spirits are permitted entry, you might call them denizens, but the terms I would recommend are forces or powers because they give the sense that what you a fighting is not physical.
Now onto gameplay I do appreciate that you increased the numbers of enemies on the prologue from 2 to 5 giving every enemy poison is interesting, to represent how fighting spiritual forces is draining on ones body I wonder if that will be a constant threat in this hack. Somthing you could add would be to give the demons that donât have poison weapons the skill that cuases them to not give experience to show how sometimes when you fight it feels like youâre getting nowhere and all you can do is resist. I do like aethetics of the stat screen with the black background and the custom item icons give a nice midevil feel. On the topic of giving bows a niche I have always been a fan of 2-3 range inorder to distinguish them from magic and all other 1-2 range weapons, if you wonder how longbows might work in that system just make them a 3-4 range weapon an advantage over normal bows but not the range of ballistaes while also establishing them as a purely offensive weapon, becuase historicaly longbows could be 7 feet tall and I cannot see someone retalliating with that. Last thought on the chaper. I donât think that demons would use a word like âfuckâ the reason being, that was a term created by the church that stood for Found Under Carnal Knowledge refering to sex outside of marrige. It sounds unfitting for a demon to use it, different phrases I could understand a demon to use would be
Filthy worms
Unworthy maggots
or something similar becuase when it comes to mental warfare demons try to degrade your self esteem and plant these little seeds of doubt that you are unloved and it is impossible that the blood of Jesus could ever wash your soul.
In the end I may be taking this a little seriously, but I do look forward to see how you progress with or without my feedback.
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Thoughts on Chapter 1
I really like the new armour portrait for the Frelian knights it matches Tanaâs armour pretty well, might you consider touching up King Haydenâs armour to better match his soldiers?
Not much to say on the text of this chapter itâs pretty vanilla with alterations when needed.
The cyclopâs sounds just as depraved as I would imagine a demon to sound. I see how you worked around not giving all enemies poisen.
I learned how the silver rapier worked, pretty neat but I like that it uses 1 durabilityof the rapier in order to balance it. When the group arrives at Frellia castle, the conversation that King Hayden has with Erika almost sounds like he does not know that Grado has a demon army at their disposal is that intentional or are you still finalizing the text for that chapter?
The chapter was not to hard, I do like the older Franz do you plan on updating his battle sprite?
P.S. rip Gilliam (he got crit by the cyclops).
Thoughts on chapter 2
The opening is good I can see no errors. When Erika recommends they head south through Serafew, Moulder says âthat seems sensible in order to avoid any encounter with Grado soldiersâ when they say Grado are we to assume they refer the demons?
Are they 2 separate things?
Are the terms used interchangebly?
When the demons are speaking Bone is given temporary command in bazbaâs absence, yet the boss of this chapter is named Atticus.
Ross tells his dad âbandits are approachingâ should he not say âdemons are approachingâ
Like when he speaks to Erika and tells her demons are attacking, or is that new information he discovered after leaving the village?
Ross tells his dad that he got a scratch should he start with poisen status?
Vanessa tells Erika the east village is being attacked by âbanditsâ when non of the enemies of this chapter are axe fighters.
Did you expand the map to the east?
I like the axe you gave Garcia it gives him the feeling of being experienced without being a prepromote.
Was this map a route map originally? With all of the droppable items you might encourage the player to seek them out more strategically if it was a kill boss map.
All the village text makes sense within the new context.
Final text,
After the battle ends a man from a village mentions how we were fighting Bazbaâs bandits is that still correct or does that text need to change? The rest of the text is just vanilla
P.S. Is saints blood really a thing I am not catholic soâŚ
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