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i thought this was pretty well done. my only gripes are standard rpg maker problems of not having access to all the information you'd like (especially turn order) which sometimes made it difficult to strategize how i'd want to. still though, these encounters really did force a lot of interesting decision making.

I really enjoyed this, felt really tense and tactical. I did give up on the final boss though, I was too demoralized after spending a couple of attempts and quite a long time fighting my way through one king, I lost it when I wiped after that.

Random assortment of thoughts:

• Every single fight I died and picked "restart with full HP/MP"
• I didn't like trying to figure out how to close out a fight with high HP/MP and just felt frustrated that I could heal after battle, but not restore MP
• There were a couple of fights that I felt like bad luck would just spell defeat even if I planned really well- e.g one fight where there were two fast air wizards and if they both targeted the character with low magic defence, she'd just die and the fight would be a lot harder. I think I only cleared those fights when I had the luck for that not to happen
• I had great difficulty telling what was happening when Spite was involved
• I really enjoyed "The Kings suffer Insolvency"
• I think the trick to the Kings fight was tracking which one had MP (and how much) and mitigating properly, but it felt quite difficult to do so without busting out a pad and pencil and watching the text notifications like a hawk

Thank you for a really interesting game

Awesome game! Took a while to beat the game without resetting HP/MP between battles. The third battle was the hardest for me, you definitely have to top your party's HP and MP going in.

The party's skillset is great. The Refresh skill is brilliant, definitely makes the combat fast-paced but still tactical. The healing spells restoring max HP feels impactful but not at all overpowered. The single target nukes offer distinct roles between burst and sustain damage. And Disruptor's skillset provides a clear distinction between physical and magical damage: magical attacks' damage can't be reduced like with physical attacks, but you can reduce the frequency of it occurring by draining MP.

The battles are memorable, and makes you fully utilize all those skills to the fullest. Definitely feels like solved puzzle after a while though, but it doesn't matter because this is intended to be a very short game anyway!

I highly liked this!

the begining was pretty frustrating, had to try the first level or two for a few times until it sort of clicked and I finished the rest in a seating. this bashing repeatedly against the wall until I get it and then I can manage de enemies pretty smoothly I guess is how people's experiences with soulslike's are?? although I never played those. it was cool to experience that here.

I like that the difference between doing it wrong and right is getting wrecked or managing the situation pretty well. I much prefer that style of combat, of fully countering big threats, to slowly chipping off damage.

it was really cool to have this very dense compact experience of getting to know this system and the dynamic between the characters and going from a very naive and reluctant play style to feeling I could actually control the situation.

That was dope as hell!! Just a good punchy set of battles that explore some very good player verbs. I love how these games explore super-specialized character roles, I think that adds a lot to the rpg combat experience. 

word, looking forward to playing this one < 3