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If we want to be TECHNICAL we could say that NIS games were the first to put them in an RPG (to my knowledge) but the first game with 'lift/throw enemies' mechanic that was actually popular would be Doki Doki Panic (aka Super Mario Bros 2 USA). There's a market for that and the very unique aesthetic and many unique mechanics are something I feel would succeed in the marketplace.ĭisgaea was not the first-ever game to have a lift/throw/stack mechanic for the battlefield. The entire game so far reminds me heavily of really old-school stuff like Rings of Power for Sega Genesis as well as some really old-school retro games I used to play. Perhaps consider a crowdfunding campaign for it if you would like to do so. If this game could ever be remade in Unity (or RPGMaker) then that would be pretty awesome to see. I do get that Pavlovian conditioning has some merits but I feel that the use of RNG shops in this case ends up being more of a Skinner box style of manipulation rather than anything that increases enjoyment of the play experience (aka what game devs USED to talk about before everything turned to focus on monetization). Gamers tend to follow FOSS (first order optimal strategy) and the FOSS for this game involves repeatedly entering/exiting/reentering and grinding as much as possible to get the things.

When both loot and shop items are completely RNG then it throws any semblence of difficulty out the window and it becomes a matter of 'enter and exit the shop repeatedly so that the thing you want for sale is up for sale and you can buy it to overpower any challenge in the way'. This allows the game developer to plan difficulty of encounters by knowing what the player has access to in shops as well as the potential average range of loot they could get from monsters. A shop should either have items or not have items. While I understand your reasoning for RNG loot (which is ok), I don't agree with the RNG generated shop items. I ended up 'cheating' by maxing out my money and then just buying all the things. (The items available in a shop is generated when the room loads and aren't stored anywhere, so storing them until some other trigger happens would mean extra effort). Items are randomly generated both as loot drops and in shops because I like randomly generated items, I'm not going to change that. They're made using layered steel of two different types.' Itemlore = 'This sword was made famous by the Frankian fencing schools who gave all their teachers one of these swords.

Here's a sample of the database, in case you want an idea about what the ultimate achieveable stuff you can get in the game currently is: so it seems like I've not finished added everything I planned. Most of the stuff that's actually in the game database currently ends at tier 15, silver weapons.

Beneath a steel sky debug plus#

The game essentially is a Disgaea clone, there are 30 tiers of each item type (ranging from wooden swords to divine relics that can cut a planet in two with a single slice) plus 10 additional tiers that aren't part of the loot tables, which are used for unique items like the Blood and Morlia swords.

Having a guide book recommend stuff would just make players improvise less.

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I just try to provide different scenarios for each battle and then it's up to your own wits and strategy to figure out how to overcome them. I don't really believe that there's a single recommended strategy, either. The game isn't finished, so I don't see the point of writing a guide book (especially considering it's not particularly popular). The stats an item gives are then multiplied with a character's aptitudes for those stats (so a character with 70% ATK aptitude would get 10 ATK from equipping that fist). These are read directly from the item's properties. You can see a list of the base stats of an item in the shop window (one of the screenshots shows this off with a fist weapon that gives ATK+15, COUNTER+1).