21 days ago

[An Insignificant Critique]

So I remembered a cancelled fangame called Ambitious had a Combat Demo. It's in the Fangame Archive.

It's bad.


So the first issue with the demo is that every character has at least 4 skills. Though some do have 5, one 3 skills and another with a whopping 8.

Second problem is that almost everyone's ATK is in the 20s. And they are all at level 10.

And finally the combat of this combat demo. Sucks.

Everyone does double digit damage. With the exception of one character and multi-hit attacks.

The main strategy is to cover the enemies with debuffs.

Speaking of enemies they also do very little and are become a non-threat when inflected with crying and weird. This one guy, Scruncle Pemberton, did more damage just because he managed to poison me.

Also just fyi, the main character is an SP user, yet doesn't have a skill to refill that SP nor does any character have a skill that could help. Another party member has that problem.

And finally I'm pretty sure the final boss is impossible. It's Bobby Diddle but with Arnold Shpitz' stats and moves. 300 damage a turn (if I didn't inflect crying) when I only had 2 mystery jerky and a party member who could only heal 100 HP and nearly 2000 HP and high defense. No thanks.

So yeah. If you are gonna release a combat demo for your project, do you think you could at least try and make it somewhat enjoyable?

Final Note-
Yes this demo did have most of Pointless' assets in it.



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