Castle Paradox

KainMinter · ***~*** Joined: 10 Jan 2004 Posts: 155 Location: Austin

Halo!
Things have come along very well since Shaede posted our last update!
Here's some more exclusive screens for everyone to eat.

Here we are showing off some of the locations early on in the game. Moogles will be around in various areas to save your progress.

There will be many towns and villages in the game, with different looks and feels. (only a select few shown here though) Pleanty of diverse and interesting dungeons to explore in the game too. We cant show you EVERYTHING now.. you have to play to see them yourself. ^^

As you can see, there are enemies a pleanty. There are some familiar Final Fantasy monsters, such as the bombs here, and many new ones too.

Estimated, there are more than 200 enemies in the game, not to mention the bosses, the super bosses, and even "notorious" monsters.

There are some other noteable points to our game that cant be seen in the screens. The story is long and changes directions as it further develops into the game, and it will be enchanced by having the characters change emotion on the screen (FF6 style). There is an intricate ability system that allows you to have more choices on how you develop your characters. There are several fun mini games within the game if you decide to take a break from the regular story. Plenty of side quests and secrets, enough to keep any "do everything" RPG fan busy for hours.

I'll post up an entry in the game list with all of the key features bulleted if you would like to know more, or you could ask Shaede or me any questions.

We'll be posting more updates in the weeks to come! ^o^

Iblis · Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 2:43 pm Post subject:

I don't really like the all-caps font, but I could live with it.
In the bottom right screen shot in the first group, the grass has a huge grouping of dark pixels giving it a major grid.
Mostly it looks great though.
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TMC · Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 4:11 pm Post subject:

The screens look pretty good, but I'm struck more than ever by how flat the tree tops look in the forest scene. You could probably improve that by using 2, 3, or 4 tiles instead of one. But it sticks out mostly because everything else isn't flat, so good job.
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Shaede · **Tuck in your shirt.** Joined: 08 Jan 2004 Posts: 107

Lucier · Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 6:21 pm Post subject:

The only things I find even mildly unattractive are things you guys probably can't help, so I've just got to say that overall, this game looks great. Everything looks nice, and those house interior maptiles and battle backdrops look especially excellent. I'm really looking forward to playing this game.
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CloudX · Joined: 08 Jan 2004 Posts: 25

So far this looks like one of the BEST ohr games ive ever seen. The graphics are incredible. This is going to be one of those get the the fridge and blankets ready, im going in! kinda games. This in turms of graphics, is worthy of being a playstation game. If only you could use 4-32 bit graphics, then we would have one hell of a game here!

Flamer · Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2004 10:10 pm Post subject:

the screenshots looks great, but griddy... you can improve them without using extra maptiles... but seeing as you are not willing to do such a thing, i think this is where your downfall will be.
the grass can be improved to not look "as" griddy.
i'm a bit disturbed by how the moogle looks, and how some of the characters resembles FF6 characters. but meh.

that's my critism, i'm still looking forward to this game, so if you feel offended don't be, i'm only pointing out the weaknesses of the game.
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RedMaverickZero · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 2:38 am Post subject:

Wow... Those graphics are very very nice. I'd say the battle backdrops look the best in my opinion, because of the fact that they look so detailed and all the enimies seem to look near perfect in that environement. Good job. But I guess I get a lil picky sometimes, but the walkabouts and hero graphics look a lil sketchy and the black outlines kinda make em stand out to the color outlined graphics. Other than those minor things, this looks like a very enjoyable game.
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Shaede · **Tuck in your shirt.** Joined: 08 Jan 2004 Posts: 107

Shadowiii · **It's been real.** Joined: 14 Feb 2003 Posts: 2460

Graphics look nice, but I'd like to hear more about the Gameplay (if you are willling to reveal that). Also, is the story a re-make of a FF game, or a continuation, or does it just take place in the Final Fantasy universe?

Graphics looks very nice though. A few things are annoying (some enemies, the world map, and those town rocks), but they don't need to be changed. I love the battle backdrops, especially the town one. Nice work so far. If your have gameplay and story to match those graphics, this will be an incredible game.
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Shaede · **Tuck in your shirt.** Joined: 08 Jan 2004 Posts: 107

Its not a remake or a continuation. Its it's own unique world. Unique characters. Unique story. Just like every Final Fantasy. The story itself is deep and involved. The one thing I take the most pride in is creating a good story. Also, the plotscripting for the game (and minigames) in itself will be impressive, I assure you. The cardgame's plotscipting alone is 36k, three times as large as even OHR Tactics. We're trying to create a game that is impressive in every aspect, not just one. Thats why you see us talk about it with so much pride.

I can say a few things about gameplay:
The gameplay is very simular to any Final Fantay (and even more simular to OHR games). The ability system revolves around cards, which you can either store up and create decks with to challenge NPCs to a card game with (and thus win new cards), use on your characters to teach them new abilities (consuming them), or equip to inprove various stats or abilities. In the end, it shouldn't feel like you're playing an OHR game.

I certainly don't want to spoil much about the gameplay, though. RPGs are at their best when explored by the player. With any luck, we'll be able to swiftly release this game. But, as it stands right now, it'll still be some time.

For those who like to know total size, I've estimated the game's final size to be around 96 MB. Its very sketchy, though. It could easily get larger. I know thats pretty harsh for an OHR game, but when its done I'll be hosting it, myself. So, apologies in advance to dial-up users.

T-Master · Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Posts: 74

That is a ridiculous file size. The game I am working on possesses 300+ screens and is barely 27MB. What do you have that is taking up so much space?

KainMinter · ***~*** Joined: 10 Jan 2004 Posts: 155 Location: Austin

Iblis · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 6:25 pm Post subject: