Castle Paradox

Delfino · Joined: 07 Jun 2009 Posts: 5

I'm still working on the concepts for my next game, but one of the concepts I want to include is the Limit Break system.

For those who do not know, Limit Breaks have been in the last Umpteen Final Fantasy titles. After an individual character takes a certain amount of damage, a special command pops up in the battle menu, called Limit. Limit usually appears in glowing rainbow colors that make it stand out. Selecting Limit unleashes a massive attack that usually plays out over a ten minute cutscene.

It seems easy enough to make the Limit work: I'll use the Counter Stat as a cost for the Limit Break, and most enemy attacks will raise the target's Counter. Each Limit attack will cost 100 Counter and have lots of fancy graphics, high damage, special effects, etc. etc.

However, what I'm still working on is a way to clearly indicate that the Limit Break is ready. Is there any way to make the text suddenly become more colorful in the battle menu, or to make the character on screen start glowing?

Thanks in advance.

Bob the Hamster · Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 9:49 am Post subject:

Unfortunately no, there is not yet any good way to do what you want to do.

Although the Plan for more flexible stats outlines how we plan to add support for limit in some future update.

Guest · Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 10:16 am Post subject:

Bob the Hamster · Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 10:18 am Post subject:

NeoSpade · Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 1:41 am Post subject:

There is one way you could do it actually, but you'd need to use the MP stat for the limit stat. but this could be worked around using the level MP system for normal spells, just have it so that all enemy attacks raise MP by a certain amount, then have a spell list that has spells that take up a certain amount of MP. It would make for an effective Limit system, but would cost you the lost of the MP stat.