Castle Paradox

[Inspiration]

Hey, Gang!

TMC recently helped me restore my lost scripts, so I could go finish up the demo.

Now that I've done what I can so far, I'm going to need some playtesters.

I'm not going to have an official mailing list or whatnot, so feel free to just post bugs that you see or suggestions here.

Please leave feedback on anything but the music.
I wanted to minimalize the file's size, so I replaced the mp3 songs with some small .mid file that I found (Not sure what it is.)

Debug keys are open, so you can feel free to skip by insanely hard boss battles or
doors that don't work.

Thanks.

[edit]Oh, right. Some of you aren't clever enough to search my gamelist:

http://www.castleparadox.com/search-usersgames.php?u=1743
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[TwinHamster]

-The Snake Boss is unbeatable, well, you can beat him, but the battle doesn't end.

-Dharlk has no attacks.

[Inspiration]

T_T

*sigh*

[Goes back to work]
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[Inspiration]

Well, if anyone's still watching the progress of this game, I've fixed up all of the reported bugs. Although I highly doubt that I've eliminated all of them. When no one's experiencing any more bugs, then I'll add the compressed songs and release the demo of the game.
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[Calehay]

Sadly, there's a huge number of bugs that I've found. I'm currently reviewing this game for the first issue of HamsterSpeak, though I won't take any of these bugs into consideration for the review. I'll probably have to go back to catch all of them, but here's a few.

Major Bugs:
MoonTwill is having lots of problems now. After reaching level 10, he now has a negative HP level. I believe that this might be caused by the fact that since his HP was well over the limit when he leveled, and it might have overflown the HP barrier. This is an OHR problem, so I might see if I can replicate it and send it into Bugzilla.

Walking into Human land makes the screen darken. However, if you go out into the world map again, the screen stays dark, and if you go into Human Land again, it makes the screen completely dark.

I'm not sure if this is a bug or not, but the White Mage's Heal is healing everyone 150-300 HP at a time. I'm not sure if that's what you wanted, but it's making the game really easy, especially since you can overflow the maximum HP.

Minor Bugs:
The White Mage's first weapon's attack is to allow you to heal, which makes fighting the monsters in the cave where he is alone impossible until you find the other weapon. I'm not sure if that was intentional or not.

I only got this once, but I couldn't get into the cave past Human Land even after talking to the Mayor. After restarting the game, it was fine, so it was probably a freak occurence.

In the forest for the archer, I couldn't find 4 of the animals. I could only find 3. However, if you exit the forest and come back, then animals come back, so you don't have to find them.
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Calehay

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Whoo boy...

I have never had any experiences regarding a stat-leveling bug before.
Which version of game.exe are you using? Although, I should probably look into it anyways.

I'm going to take out the HumanLand screen darkening script completely, since the maptile is already plenty dark to begin with, and you never go into the village during the day time (yet).

Later in the game, the bosses will easily annihilate your heroes in one hit (I made them harder because I thought the overflowing health was a pretty cool feature at the time). Eventually, enemy attacks will be percentage based, so your heroes may be hit and only have 10% of their health left.

The white mage's first spell, Holy Break, is an offensive skill that deals 'holy' damage, so defeating the dark creatures in his test area is primarily meditating a few times and then using holy break.

With entering the Humanicity Cave, you have to talk to the guard man once before he will disappear. So if you talked to the mayor before talking to him, you have to talk to him once. I guess this will have to be fixed.

Ranger forest...

Critters are located as noted:

[Moogle1]

This isn't a game comment, but your HTML formatting is bad on the download screen. There are two <u> tags, but it looks like the second one should be </u> instead.

This game looks like something I'd enjoy. I'll have to check it out when it's further along.
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[TwinHamster]

That's odd...It looks fine on my screen.

[Moogle1]

[TwinHamster]

[Calehay]

Alright, here's my list of bugs (Feb. 26 version.)

1. MoonTwill can't get past Level 10.
Looking through Bugzilla, I couldn't find anything related to this problem, so I might see if I can't make a test case and see if it happens again. Can I know what hero slot MoonTwill is in? I seem to remember some bug about a hero in a certain slot couldn't level all of the way, but that might just be my imagination.

2. Giye goes through the wrong door.
In the opening scene, Giye goes through the door on the right and comes out of the door from the top.

3. The Lord of light needs to know if you have four monster souls when you talk to him.
Right now, he's still saying that you need to go find them once, and then it goes to the cutscene after talking to him again.

4. Woodsman misspells forest.
I actually noticed that almost everyone misspells forest as "forrest." I'm not sure if that was something you were trying to go for.

5. Critters still come back after leaving the forest.
I found this out again because I couldn't reach the secret entrance through the leaves.

6. The Boss in the forest's walkabout doesn't leave after the battle.
Instead it moves in front of MoonTwill and stays there until the screen blacks out.

7. MoonTwill doesn't go down the stairs in the inn.
Instead he slams into the wall as if there's a door there.

8. After the inn scene, everyone is at different tables.
*spoiler*
After Dharlk's minion comes and *spoiler* teleports Terjon and you regain control, everyone is at different tables than where they were sitting.
*end spoiler*

9. Manfred is in Keihm's way.
When Keihm is talking to the mayor in the cutscene, Manfred is in his way and Keihm ends up walking into him.

10. Keihm; the village's
Keihm says villages instead of making it possesive in the same cutscene.

11. Should Keihm be in the party after the boss?
I'm not sure if that's what you intended, but Keihm is in line with everyone after the boss fight, and since everything else was nicely scripted, it seems like that would be an odd choice.

12. Poison stops over-limit status.
Another OHR bug. No matter how much poison takes, when you are over the HP limit, you'll go straight to your max HP (unless the poison would take your HP under maximum)

13. Graphical problem: On ticket cart.
The black line doesn't continue all of the way down, and it looks disjointed.

14. Ship should probably move a little faster.
Also, should the ship really just be flipped around?

15. Stop and Poison is not a good Combo.
If everyone is stopped and everyone is poisoned, then all you can do is watch your demise. While not having a status medicine item makes things a little challenging (Having to keep Manfred alive to heal things) it makes things like this a little harsh.

16. The thing that gives you items at the last dungeon needs to tell you that you are getting them.
That was just weird, I don't understand why those items are there, or why your giving them to us instead of making the last boss easier. I'm not sure if that was just placeholder or what.

That's all of the bugs that I could find. My review will probably tell what I think could be worked on content wise throughout the game.
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Calehay

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Well, I've fixed up those reported bugs hopefully and I suppose I'll be able to add music now.

Prepare for the big one, kiddies!
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Look forward and embrace the trials of tomorrow.