by Rulakir » Thu Jan 03, 2013 5:37 am
Myau makes an appearance, I've re-written the scene where Alis and Myau meet, you'll still get the Alsulin from him, and he'll be available as an NPC to chat to and will give hints and advice at different points in Alis' quest. In replacement, Nero will use 'Fangs' as his weapons, they are more like large, curved, daggers. So you'll still get the Iron Fang and Silver Fang etc. Nero will also use Myau's magic list.
At present some of my maps need their tiles slightly cleaning up, but it's fine for the testing phase. I'm currently finishing off all the combat sprites, so far I have Alis (Knife), Alis (Sword), Nero, Odin, Needle/Heat/Lasergun, Noah, Rolf (Knife), Rolf (Sword), Nei, Rudo (Dagger), Gun shot graphics for Rudo/Kain, Amy (Scalpel), Amy (Staff), Anna (Whip), Slasher graphics, Kain (Dagger), Hugh (Dagger), Shir (Dagger), Rhys (Sword), Mieu, Wrens gun graphics, Lyle, Ayn (Sword), Sari (Knife), Chaz (Sword), Rika, Rune.
I still need to sprite a few alternate ones, like Rhys, Ayn and Chaz's knife sprites. I still need to sprite Hahn, Seth, Raja, Laya, Ryan and Aron (battle graphics)
Myau is not the only character that got cut, I had to cut the entire second generation for Nial (personal preference I guess since I mostly did Ayn's side when I was younger), and most of the third generation, as well as Demi, Gryz and Kyra from PS4. But some of the characters that got cut I have re-added as secret characters. Basically, when you complete the final boss (PS4), you'll have an extra chapter afterwards, which will allow you to recruit some of the cut characters as bonus content, at the moment they will be (Hugh, Shir, Laya, Ryan,) and the party lead will pass to Aron, you'll also be able to do sidequests to regain members of your party from the other games, only older versions.
So.. the games flow will go like this:
Alis (Nero, Odin, Noah) > Rolf (Nei, Rudo, Amy, Anna, Kain) > Rhys (Mieu, Wren, Lyle) > Ayn (Mieu, Wren, Thea, Sari) > Chaz (Alys, Hahn, Rika, Wren, Raja) > *Aron (A host of bonus characters)
* bonus end game content
Perhaps I'm being too ambitious