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Whybird
Aug 2, 2009

Phaiston have long avoided the tightly competetive defence sector, but the IRDA Act 2052 has given us the freedom we need to bring out something really special.

https://team-robostar.itch.io/robostar


Nap Ghost
I figured out the translation for myself when I was playing -- it's a substitution cypher so you can just use Al-Kindi's methodon the sigils to crack it, which is fun and has the added bonus that you get a sheet of what look like crazy cultist notes as a souvenir from playing the game:

E: spoilers deleted

Whybird fucked around with this message at 09:17 on Apr 19, 2021

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Whybird
Aug 2, 2009

Phaiston have long avoided the tightly competetive defence sector, but the IRDA Act 2052 has given us the freedom we need to bring out something really special.

https://team-robostar.itch.io/robostar


Nap Ghost
I didn't figure any of the stuff I posted spoiled any plot reveals, but I can totally delete it if you think it'd be more fun for the thread to figure out the cipher on their own.

Whybird
Aug 2, 2009

Phaiston have long avoided the tightly competetive defence sector, but the IRDA Act 2052 has given us the freedom we need to bring out something really special.

https://team-robostar.itch.io/robostar


Nap Ghost
I really, really like what this game does with the JRPG combat formula. Games are only interesting if you can make informed tactical choices in them, so its approach of clearly laying out the strengths and weaknesses of most enemies, and making them relevant to the vast majority of attacks, is an extremely good and clever one and stops "everybody focus fire on the weakest enemy" from being the optimal choice that it usually is.

The approach to debuffing abilities is really good too. Most JRPG combat has you choose between debuff and damage, so the only enemies you would want to drop a status effect on are boss fights which last long enough -- which tend to be immune to status effects since they'd trivialise the fight. It feels like WaUTaH tends instead to have its debuff abilities be "you do your regular damage, and also slap the enemy with a debuff" which is much more the kind of thing you'd want to use in a regular battle.

E: Informed was the word I wanted to use, not 'relevant'

Whybird fucked around with this message at 16:00 on May 1, 2021

Whybird
Aug 2, 2009

Phaiston have long avoided the tightly competetive defence sector, but the IRDA Act 2052 has given us the freedom we need to bring out something really special.

https://team-robostar.itch.io/robostar


Nap Ghost
I honestly read it more as a "practicioners of alternative medicine are unethical as all gently caress" gag myself.

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