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Its a good game, but it has many flaws.

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Unknown:
Fortune summoners is a fun interesting game, but it has many flaws...flaws that make the game annoying.

I like many things about the game but it has many "problems" too.

So far i have reached the wind temple part.


* Characters AI is not smart: This is specially annoying with sana, that only uses shield and runs around the map instead of use her ice magic.
* Low "control response": While enemies have fast attacks, play with keyboard make character movements to "ignore commands" so i ahve to press rigth 2-3 times before archer stops attacking and turns to the rigth.
* Enemy AI is smart....VERY smart: Those green lizard mages are a great example, they can use the same ice spells that sana, but unlike sana, they use them efficiently. They heal their allies and constantly use their ice skills. Can't the player characters have this smart AI?
* Lack of useful items in shops: no resurrect item available in store in the first days, im guessing the player has to go get the item and put give them to the store, so the store will have it available.
* Can't escape dungeons unless spend 10% of money: The wind temple entrace is flooded with water so if you enter with sana and then, while exploring the dungeons, sana is defeated by enemies (something very common for a character with low HP) then you are trapped. You can't go forward because sana ability is needed and you can't go back because...sana ability is needed to escape. Which means that need to spend 10% of money for escape.
* Expensive items: basically any armor that may make exploring a little easier cost 500 coins+.
Im not going to say "this game has only flaws" because that would be a lie. I will mention some of the many good things this game has too.


* The game is fun.
* The plot is very anime-style. While playing its easy to think "i know what to do because this is what happens in animes".
* The translations are very good.
* Hilarious/adorable main character conversations.
If the game follows "anime-style plots" i hope it doesn't end with arche getting her elemental stone. Because that would be annoying: "spend all the game looking for the elemental stone so archer can use magic and the game ends just when you get it, meaning that archer won't use magic."

SilentCaay:
No offense but it's painfully obvious you're still early on in the game.

1) Battles flow much more smoothly once you've got a few more moves to chain together for combos.
2) There are items to help you escape dungeons and revive characters you just haven't gotten that far yet.
3) 10% of your money to escape is nothing. This game doesn't punish you for dying so why not just keep trying? If you get to a point where you have almost no life and you really have to escape but don't want to spend the cash, just make a run for the entrance. Even if you die a few times along the way you still aren't penalized. I really don't see the point in complaining about the incredibly minor 10% penalty especially when it's entirely avoidable.
4) Stuff is expensive, so what? You know what I find boring? Those RPGs where you run straight from one town to the next and the stuff is so cheap or you have so much money that you can clean out the city and still have cash left over. You can't do that in this game which is the way I like it. You have to pick and chose which items you need rather than just buy one of everything. I especially avoid the staves since, unlike most RPGs, they don't increase your MAG stat and are therefore fairly useless for Sana.
5) As for the rest of your issues, practice, practice, practice.

Unknown:

--- Quote from: SilentCaay on February 28, 2012, 12:15:29 PM ---No offense but it's painfully obvious you're still early on in the game.

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The game has 11 days, im in the day 5.


--- Quote from: SilentCaay on February 28, 2012, 12:15:29 PM ---1) Battles flow much more smoothly once you've got a few more moves to chain together for combos.

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Thats not what i meant.

What i meant is that i have to press a key 3-4 times before archer reacts while the enemy has "fast movement".

SilentCaay:

--- Quote from: Unknown on February 28, 2012, 05:02:34 PM ---The game has 11 days, im in the day 5.

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Right, you're still early on.


--- Quote ---What i meant is that i have to press a key 3-4 times before archer reacts while the enemy has "fast movement".
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See #5.

Siam:
Many valid points there, as far as I can tell. However they don't bother me much tbh.

Enemy AI being smarter than party AI is quite common in single-player games, because your party has brightest "AI" of the entire gameworld: you. The enemy AI won't use terrain to their advantage, won't deviate from a set path, won't equip any items nor devise new tactics to replace preset ones when the situation calls for it. The player however, can do all those things and more, so to account for this and balance it out, the rest of your team is 'dumbed down'.

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