I liked most of the Story Mode secrets, especially the ones with books and unique things in there, but I just preferred Master Mode's books telling you to look around this area and finding unique items. It wasn't like I dreaded looking for secrets in Story Mode =P.
Not really spoilers but, I'm gonna throw these in the spoiler quotes anyways because some people may not want it ruined. It concerns swords/staffs. Spoiler The crystal staff is gained in Master Mode and instead of a critical it casts the earth spire spell and stuns any enemies nearby. The IAP fire sword does something similar, I believe, but I did not buy it. And later Kepa told me on this thread he was adding one that has a lightning effect.
I'm done for tonight 146 stars done. Only missing 1 star on 3 levels right before the pinnacle ones. Then I need to three star pinnacle gold.. That one is actually tough... 5 in Magic and I still struggle to kill the final boss.
@Kepa- I'm all for supporting you guys and your all game, but do you have a final word/opinion on the Phoenix Feather? I find myself really needing it, but if it is going to be nerfed/become free I'd consider holding off.
Tried to beat the boss one last time using the hungry sword strategy and did it on my first try. Just beat the first few levels of master mode. Same difficulty so far...
You are saying I bought it for nothing? Then I better start using it now. Kepa - you should not change items in IAP, it is not fair towards people who spent money for an item.
We were thinking about making it free and then nerfing it some, but I doubt we actually can do this just because IAP is so touchy. What we're going to end up doing is just adding an alternate or two to the Phoenix Feather later. Maybe like one that resurrects you with 2 hearts but does a lightning storm hitting 4 nearby enemies, stuff like that. At the same time difficulty adjustments are coming, though. I don't want anyone to feel like they must have the phoenix feather. Already there's an update (that should be approved any time now) that adds urns to some levels that really need them, while giving an additional life to story mode. Once that update is out considering more things. I'd really like to do something for the third levels in each chapter, the ones that seem to run far too long. It would be a huge pain to actually shorten those levels, but I'm thinking of just adding tons of spell urns to the last half or last third or so of those levels. So you have to fight through the first part but then it's an explosion fest at the second part...
I appreciate you not changing the Phoenix Feather because it is one of the few times that I found the IAP to be worth it.
I regret making an IAP item important. Wasn't intentional, just sort of slipped through. I thought the Arcane Heart was a comparable trinket. I won't be making any pay-for-health thing like that again (except in the free-to-play spinoff I guess, but that's different because you can just earn every item in the game through playing anyway).
I think arcane heart is a comparable trinket... i actually started grinding bosses for hats and stopped using the PF, and forgot to put it on when I went back to levels and found that it wasn't so bad. When playing levels with PF I are at the mercy of the random urn drop, usually netting me lots of useless (to me) spells like shield, lucky, ultralucky, time stop and silence. With a "more likely chance to have fireball and shadow bomb" trinket I was able to deal more damage while avoiding some too. There's nothing like having 1/2 heart, finding that spell urn and going "just what I needed" and it coming out with a lucky spell. Ironic.
Just to clarify - "*Level Cleared*" happens when you kill all monsters, not when you find all secrets. It's important because some secrets don't contain monsters, and if you find all the monster closets and kill the monsters in the main level area, you will get Level Cleared, but possibly miss a note or two which were in secrets that had no monsters. I agree though, the doors should open... but Kepa has already said that he will look into eliminating the backwards blocking doors completely anyway.
Don't forget the stunning aspect of your charge attack. With many mobs you can charge through a portion of the enemies and run away going back to where you did the charge attack from. Stall for a second by kiting and then go through the charge attack again. I think that was one of the levels it took me a while to three-star. Once you play the level a few times, you learn where the more difficult mobs are - this is where you need to use your spells to blast through them fairly quickly without a fight.
Could you add items of different categories that resurrect you? Earnable in-game, add a resurrecting pet, sword, and cloak. Each could have a different elemental effect, but only 1 could be equipped or function at a time. This way, the player's accessory isn't always a resurrecting item if they want that perk - they can mix it up a bit.
I'm very glad to hear this! I do not have the video game reflexes of my 20something self, and there are times when I either feel brutalized or just decide to run through the later parts of a level. A final magic party payoff would be a great reward after dealing with a couple of the big/tough/magic dues that come up late in the levels.
@Kepa: What achievements are currently bugged and what ones are being fixed in the update that's currently being approved?
