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The Blacksmith's Apprentice

The Blacksmith's Apprentice - Version 1.5 released

haha I figured something like that was the case. I just wnated to see if I could break the boundaries.  :wink: I did a little extra battling to get that amount fo cash, so I don't think it would be an occurance if the player went through the game without the intention of meeting outragous prices. But, wiht the healing springs and the Eagle's Talons skill, the money did not take a lot of extra effort to reach (maybe 20 m inutes or half an hour). I don't need a save fix; I sed a abckup file when I bought the schooner. I hope that helped give you an idea though of what's managable so far in the demo.

In general, I like your powerufl enemies-blocking-path technique, but it's probably a good idea to come up with some reaosn why you can't make an expensive purchase (which it sound sliek you had originalyl intended), but the a seemingly impossible gold amount probably isn't the most effective barrier (unless it's like 100,000). I'm probably just babbling uneccessarily, but I hope that feedback was helpful.

EDIT: I just finished the demo and am eagerly awaiting the next chapter. Sadly, I found a few glitches:

1. The Fer-De_Lance skill thatWilliam acquires around level 25 says that it deals a powerful attack against oen enemy. When i used it in the demo, it attacked all enemies.

2. I'm not sure if this counts as a glitch, but I thought you might want to know: it is VERY easy to defeat the snake (name escapes me) in the Thornbury Wilds during the return journey to Willow Glen. Perhaps you meant for her to be ebatable at this point in the game, but just didnt add anythign fi you achieved. Just incase she's supposed to extremely powerful still, (which I gathered formt he fact my weapons won't actually deal any damage...) all I did was use my most powerful single attack skills. In the first round, she was poisoned and stunned. Thjen, she died after a few rounds of, well, nothing. This was also my first attempt since the first time she owned me in chapter 2. I would suggest either making her resistant to status effects, or, perhaps making a duplicate of her. This duplicate can be used in the early game when she's still powerful; just make her immune to  any status effects and give her 9999 HP so no one can get by on luck. Then, have a normal status effect- prone enemy later in the game when she is defeatable.

Laslty, the parts arent't gltices just thughts.

I really like the garrison take over of Willow Glen, but a couple thigns didn't make sense to me. I know Hal Miller is an old man, but Belarus seems to be abut his age. If the soldiers arrested all of the men, and Bearus was allowed to stay only on the premise that he could heal the soldiers, whhy is Hal Miller still in town? I think it would make more sense if he was gone  since Belarus had to cut a deal to be able to stay (unless the soldiers get some of the millers' teas or sometthing). Secondly, I'm just curios, how does Arthur justify leaving town. This might be being nitpicky, but won't the soldiers notice if some arrogant kid who's always threatening them is missing? So , wouldn't that arouse as many suspicions as if Arthur just disappeared? Maybe I'm jsut jumping the gun and you have a magnificent explanaiton alreayd planne dout in the next section  :smile:

Other than those two details I thought the scene was intriguing and effective. I think you were definately able to pull off a govenrment take-over. Also, the dream scene was quite effective, too, msotly because I really did hate those orbs after spending so much time searchign for random ones.
 
Im really, really sorry but im really bad with computers... Could you tell me plz how to actualy play your game after i've downloaded it? Im new to rmxp i hope im not breaking the rules...
 
Hello!Daniel":ly6k1167 said:
Im really, really sorry but im really bad with computers... Could you tell me plz how to actualy play your game after i've downloaded it? Im new to rmxp i hope im not breaking the rules...
Double-click Game.exe.
The Fer-De_Lance skill thatWilliam acquires around level 25
You grinded more than me. ;_;
 
Wherever you extracted the game to. You know, once you download it, you payed attention to where you downloaded it to, right? Then you double click the file you downloaded, click the "..." to select where to download it to, click OK, wait for it to finish and the window to close, then go to the place you specified and double click Game.exe.
 
Lmao, ok now I re-downloaded it and i saved it into " My Projects" but when I double click "The_Blacksmiths_Apprentice" the mouse loads and then stops... :sad: I know im being anoying, I just realy want to play it...
 
That would mean it's in the middle of loading, or you might have been doing something else while it was extracting, which causes it to freeze. Try extracting again, and this time let the comp simply sit there until the window closes.
 
You grinded more than me. ;_;

It was all for that damn ship! and I spent a little time exploring the cave in the garrison bcause I thought I'd miss osmehting important if I didn't...once I had saved at the summit and completely out of MP items, I realized that was the worst decision in my entire 11 hour Blacksmith's Apprentice carreer
 
Hello!Daniel":23zp02f0 said:
OMFG, screw it! The game wont open when I click on the freakin file! :pissed:

@HelloDaniel: I don't think there's a problem with the download, as many others have played this game successfully.  It sounds like there's a problem with your computer.  Hopefully you can get it figured out.

@Wavesofthelagoon:  Thanks for all the feedback!  That's the sort of thing that helps me make this a better game.  I'll see about the Salaseren's difficulty, though from your description, she's about where I want her (a side-quest that isn't immediately beatable, but becomes so through leveling-up).  As for the rest:
The reason for Hal Miller being allowed to stay in town becomes more apparent as the story progresses.  Keep in mind he's an old man with poor vision and poorer memory.  Little use to anyone.  As for Arthur's disappearance, he has no family left in Willow Glen, and with William "gone", he has no reason to stay.  The soldiers didn't want him in the first place, and so his disappearance would garner little suspicion.  Again, it becomes more apparent as the story progresses.  But I do appreciate the thoughts, it helps me flesh out the plot!
 
Came across another extremely minor Thistle bug.

When its sunset and you're supposed to go into the house (when you overhear William's parents whispering about his trip), I went into the house and didn't didn't dismount Thistle, so I was riding him around the house. I went into the bed with Thistle and passed away the night, then galloped into the kitchen and talked to Ma.

... So yeah. Ridiculously minor, but still something to fix next version.    :wink:
 
Oh my god, Juno. This game, juno. Oh my god. Juno, this game. Oh my god!

This game is a really, really good game. I've been playing it all day, and there's... there's just so much of it! I mean, DUDE! I'm looking forward to going back and finishing off the sidequests I couldn't do before (I can do that, right). Right now I'm going into the mystic ruins.

There are one or two things that do bother me about the game. One is the TARDIS houses. I don't like going into a small house and it being MASSIVE on the inside. I think if you did that, and brought all of the houses closer to each other, you would have a much more town-y feel to each of your locations. Also, there's a lot of wasted space in the houses. They don't need to be that big. Making them smaller will make them "cosier" and give a more homely feel to them. Right now they're just so open.

One other thing is the sheer imbalance in fighting and the need for resources and money. This problem was only real in the second town (forget the name), but I was pleased to see it ease off in Theif's Haven. But I just found myself getting beaten up constantly due to lack of restoratives. I suppose this could be classed as intentional, since this IS a free-roaming game, and I could finish it later.

Apart from those issue... DAMN. This is amazing. You did this all by yourself?
 
I wanted to play this but I think that the main character's hair will be far too distracting for me to enjoy it. You need to mute those colors down seriously.
 

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