Features you want the most?

[jack1974]

As long as he doesn't burn their homes I guess so!

[Grodul]

That of course will change based on the personality. Draco would be happy to meet everyone again, while Chambara or Mesphit might be less enthusiast or not shown it publicly (of course, ignoring a possible romance with any of them).

Oh, yeah. I did forget to ask about the reappearance of the romance partner. I do hope for some tender moments for them during the whole game. From the first meeting to the last moments of the sequel. Lots of love over there, thank you. And I would not say no to a situation where Elenor happens be climbing in high places (again), when she happens to fall (again), and Karen happens to catch her (again), and cradle her lovingly before letting go, and Elenor being badly embarrassed the whole time. It was a very special moment from the first game. More situations like those, please.

(As a side note) I think Draco's a well made character. He made me laugh couple of times. And I really wished to cheer him up when he didn't receive any love from anyone else.

[gamesempie]

(As a side note) I think Draco's a well made character. He made me laugh couple of times. And I really wished to cheer him up when he didn't receive any love from anyone else.

I know what you mean as a straight guy I had no desire to romance Draco but I did feel bad for him. Perhaps in Draco's personal quest this time around there will be a way you can play it so you can play match-maker for him.

[megaman12321]

I don't know if this was addressed or not so I might as well ask. I'm straight, so I never pursued the romance option with Draco when I played Saren, yet reading through the romance thread make it clear that Draco's route is very sweet and such. I like Draco as a character and want to be nicer to him, but I never really got a chance to really see all sides of Draco as a normal friend. Are you guys gonna add a way for their to be more of a neutral way to get to know each other? You know, like a bromance rather then a romance, cause I want to be friends and know about the people with me without necessarily needing to romance them, like how Loren trusts Saren even if you don't romance her.

[jack1974]

Well of course we can't do a SEPARATE friendship for every route (there is already an insane amount of romances for the sequel). What could be done is a more direct way to unlock the romance scenes, so that you have a confirmation yes/no instead of automatically play them based on the prerequisites. Like "Draco invites you to spend the night with him, you accept yes/no". Something like that.
Even in the first game, up to the final scenes, the route is pretty much of friendship/bromance (I'm going by memory since I don't remember every single dialogue). Then the last scene OK, that is different

[MarSel]

See people are beginning to want the FRIENDSHIP END!!

[trueKieran]

When you start a new game, you will be able to select:
- Gender (Saren or Elenor)
- Class (Warrior, Thief, Mage, Healer)
- Outfit and color scheme, based on class
- Starting weapon (or at least what your character will be seen wearing, with the option of no weapon showing)
- Background job; Healer, Trainer, Guard, or Harem Spy
- Your current job will be dependent on your character class (may change this)
- Which path you chose in Chp1; Empire (Ember Blade) or Elven (Hawk Blade)
- If you let Mesphit live
- If you adopted Trouble
- Which expansion party members you recruited
- Who you romanced (only 1 choice), with the option of choosing no one.
- Who killed Fost. Currently deciding which options to allow, since sacrificing certain characters would create a completely different story. Currently considering disallowing Saren/Elenor and Loren options, but including Karen, Zeal and Sauzer options.

If I left anything out that you think is important, just request it.

You will be able to break off your current romance in-game, if you wish. I will try to incorporate the background job more in the story.

I'll probably consider checking for a rival romance that you rejected in the previous game, but that is not high priority at the moment. I may check it in-game, through dialogue with the character. How important is it to everyone that (at least one) rival/rejected romance be remembered by the game? How important is it to everyone that you be able to re-start that relationship, at the expense of the current one? I can get certain characters on board with polygamy, but let's not count on it at the moment.

I could kiss you for number 3 and 4 of that list. If you really did go with the no items system, this would make it much easier to sell it to the people btw. So far the weapon of choice and the outfit are for many two very important of the in total often few options to give your character a personal note. There is one more option I'd like to suggest, even though it may seem minor and somehow out of place since we already played with these chars in the first game... but I'd really really love to change the hair colour of my character. I originally wanted to ask for beard options too, but I'm willing to take Jack's word on the "shaving ritual".

[jack1974]

The problem is that in 2d games, those that don't use pixel art, if you change a detail you need to change ALL the game scenes in which the characters appear. Like in the romance scenes, and so on. Since in the romance scenes in the sequel they wear more casual/appropriate dresses (or they don't wear much at all depending on what you choose in options!) doesn't matter what is their outfit on the battlefield. But if you can change the colors of the eyes,hairs or even worse hairstyle, then it would become a total madness (would need to make overlay sprites for all the romances).

A full customization like that works better in 3d, or 2d pixel art, since is easy to change details

[trueKieran]

I see, well it was worth a try.

[Becca2828]

I can see the benefits of a default character, even if they did make overlay sprites (no idea what that is) people would want different hair colours from the ones that had been given out and different hairstyles and so on and so forth. I mean seriously, who doesn't want their character to have bright pink hair because that totally wouldn't be a dead give away to all your enemies... I like the characters as they are anyway, well drawn and awesome.

I've just realised the text box is american, it made me worry I can't spell colour or realised or spelt...