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It was a day like any other in the Skybound Isles when a dark mass arose from the clouds that separated the forgotten and dangerous world below from the home of the dragons above. General Mechos, a powerful military leader of the humans launched an attack on the floating islands and abducted the dragoness Crystal for reasons unknown.

Flame, a trainee knight and Crystal's best friend, travels to the forgotten kingdom of Mineria having sworn to find her and put an end to whatever plot General Mechos has planned. On his journey, Flame will face incredible dangers, discover more about the kingdom of Mineria, why the dragons were separated from the earth to live in the sky, and discover his own destiny.

• Please add a fullscreen mode! The 3x window size is still small if you have a high-resolution display.
  
  
• I'd suggest playing the intro cutscene whenever you start a new game - instead of when you launch the .EXE for the first time. If you open the game, start watching the cutscene, but don't finish watching it, you'll be taken directly to the title screen next time you play. You'd have to go into the AppData folder and delete your saved data manually if you wanted to watch it again.
  
  
• I mentioned this over IM, but Boomerang level-ups don't display properly on the status screen. The upgraded functionality still works - just the level number may be incorrect.
  
  
• Consider adjusting the penalties for losing a life. Whenever you lose a life, you lose a significant fraction of both treasure and EXP you haven't used yet. This is annoying, since you'll lose lives frequently, and most of the more valuable treasure can only be obtained once per level. However, since the game lets you save your progress up to each level's checkpoint, if you lose a life you can close the game and reload from the last save point, and you won't lose anything. For that reason, I'd suggest removing the penalty for losing a life.
  
  
• I'd suggest displaying the boss HP bar only during battles.
  
  
• Don't forget to update the window caption - "Made in GameMaker Studio 2" isn't too exciting!
  
  
• It's frustrating that you can only carry 1-2 of each recovery item at a time. Specifically, Eldor Temple has tons of enemies that can poison you, and since poison is a very dangerous status, you'll want to heal it whenever you get poisoned. For that reason, you can quickly run out of Herbs, since you can only carry a maximum of two.

• In the first town, one of the townspeople asks "Have the gods abbandoned us?" You should abandon the extra 'b' here!
  
• "Beastiary" is normally spelled "Bestiary" - I assume this isn't intentional.
  
• Grohl's bestiary description has a typo ("susceptible") and is a bit too long.

Quote:Please add a fullscreen mode! The 3x window size is still small if you have a high-resolution display.

Quote:I'd suggest playing the intro cutscene whenever you start a new game - instead of when you launch the .EXE for the first time. If you open the game, start watching the cutscene, but don't finish watching it, you'll be taken directly to the title screen next time you play. You'd have to go into the AppData folder and delete your saved data manually if you wanted to watch it again.

Quote:Consider adjusting the penalties for losing a life. Whenever you lose a life, you lose a significant fraction of both treasure and EXP you haven't used yet. This is annoying, since you'll lose lives frequently, and most of the more valuable treasure can only be obtained once per level. However, since the game lets you save your progress up to each level's checkpoint, if you lose a life you can close the game and reload from the last save point, and you won't lose anything. For that reason, I'd suggest removing the penalty for losing a life.

Quote:I'd suggest displaying the boss HP bar only during battles.

Quote:Don't forget to update the window caption - "Made in GameMaker Studio 2" isn't too exciting!

Quote:It's frustrating that you can only carry 1-2 of each recovery item at a time. Specifically, Eldor Temple has tons of enemies that can poison you, and since poison is a very dangerous status, you'll want to heal it whenever you get poisoned. For that reason, you can quickly run out of Herbs, since you can only carry a maximum of two.

Quote:Finally, I caught a trio of typos:

• In the first town, one of the townspeople asks "Have the gods abbandoned us?" You should abandon the extra 'b' here!
  
• "Beastiary" is normally spelled "Bestiary" - I assume this isn't intentional.
  
• Grohl's bestiary description has a typo ("susceptible") and is a bit too long.
  

• Fixed a bug with Skaltos in the fortress area where it would sometimes get stuck in a retreat animation
  
• Fixed a bug where, if the player died after triggering an autoscroll camera script during boss or enemy encounters (in levels), the camera would get locked in place and wouldn't follow the player
  
• Fixed an uncommon bug where, in "mini-levels" (i.e. caves, hidden overworld areas), if there was more than one section to it and the player died, their respawn position room and respawn positions would be messed up
  
• Fixed a bug where the Thief enemy could get stuck in the wall
  
• Fixed a bug where the down-thrust attack was dealing 5x damage of the sword's level
  
• Fixed a bug where you could "stomp" on enemies that were above you while you were below them
  
• Fixed a bug where the pause menu could display on the title screen or during cutscenes whenever connection to a gamepad was detected/lost
  
• Fixed a minor bug with the Steggyns where they would sometimes be slightly embedded in or float slightly above the ground
  
• Fixed a bug in the Heron Fortress mini-level where jumping off screen would make the foreground re-appear
  
• Fixed a glitch where trying to stab a boulder would cause the game to crash
  
• Fixes a game-breaking bug involving cutscenes
  
• Fixed a minor bug where MP would visually appear not to upgrade within the pause menu and level-up menus (it WOULD upgrade, but visuals wouldn't portray this)
  
• Fixed a bug where the user couldn't skip the cutscene at the end of the demo
  

• Removed the weapon wheel due to being really finnicky; it was either remove analog stick support for movement and have a very precise weapon wheel select or remove the weapon wheel mechanic. Weapons can still be equipped from the pause menu
  
• Re-worked the Steggyns to function as originally intended
  
• Updated/replaced the original water graphics with new ones
  
• Updated the sword in the logo so that it blends in more with the rest of the logo's color
  
• Made it so that gamepad users can press "B"/Circle/A on the Xbox/PS4/Switch controllers to cancel or say "No
  
• Added an "Options" selection on the title screen that allows the player to adjust the window size, game volume, and view/change the control
  
• QOL adjustments for gamepad users
  
• Added a dodge cooldown indicator to the top-left of the HUD, beneath the player's HP and MP meters
  
• Added the ability to upgrade the dodge cooldown time when leveling up
  
• Added a tutorial that explains how to upgrade your stats after leveling up (this was a common source of confusion I've been told)
  
• Made the "upgrade" text in the stats menu flash gold when you're able to upgrade a stat, making it easier to find for new players
  
• Re-balanced SP needed for stat upgrades so that you don't need to be level 300 to acquire all stat upgrades
  
• Several other gameplay balance adjustments