Random Post #41 (Planning. again) (Patreon)

Almost done with the new update! All that's left is to finish testing the Celeste, Lene x Lamir scenes and the other new stuff. But I thought this was a good chance for me to talk about the planned changes! These things are mostly for the combat stuff.

First off, about equipment! Currently, in the game we have a whopping 10 different equipment available, and most of them are weapons for the player! Viz has two different weapons, Nihil has one, and Peach has nothing(?)!

Giving the player the choice of equipment would be fun! I love the part of games where I make money and choose what stuff I wanna buy to progress further, so now I added new equipment to all merchants that update as you progress through the caves! And all enemies that have a visible weapon or armor should have a slight chance to drop their respective stuff when defeated.

I'm still testing out pricing for stuff as I changed a lot, so I'll consider this update a test for this! I think crafting might've suffered a bit on this update with all the new items, so for now, it'll be a bit in a weird spot before I revamp it. And the usable characters are probably way, way stronger than before, so the game difficulty might've be gone!

Another major change is skills! I've added 10+ skills for each character, so you have something to look for when you level up! The player is an offensive all-arounder, Viz is a little monster in the damaging department that might fall over if a light breeze hits her, Nihil should feel more like a tank, and Peach is a bit more offense oriented with more tools at her disposal! I am considering adding other characters as party members, namely Obscuria, Hapi, and maybe Ayla, as they are part of the storyline and stick around for parts of it.

Also, I'm considering making the party a three character thing! That would fix the weirdness of combat, and it'll probably kill the choice of soloing the game with only the protagonist, but would also deal with how awkward some party members might feel working together with only the protagonist! Like how Viz needs protection but gets none from the player and how Nihil protects, but the player doesn't need a lot of protection. But that would need a lot of balancing to go along with it, so there's no way I'm doing that for the next update! And it's just a random thought, really, but I do play games, and I get happy getting and using multiple characters in games!

Other thing I don't think I'll have the chance to get too into before I release it on the next update is that I've added a new quest for Bum-Bum! It's a smallish, creepy quest where the player accompanies the perverted fairy to… gather some used underwear… No scene for her yet, but we might get there eventually.

TL;DR: Bunch new itens added to shops and as drops, bunch new skills for all characters. Game might be too easy on the next update. New creepy Bum-Bum side quest!