Darkened Hearts: Update 3

[Justanotheremblier]

Hello, I'm fairly new to the ROM hacking scene in general, and I decided to try making my own FE8 ROM hack. I'm currently still in the prep phase, as I do not even have a title yet. What I do need is some testers who are willing to play this single short map and give me some advice on how to proceed. I am also giving the base stats and growths for the current characters (who are just re-colors for now) so if you can't play it right now you can hopefully give some useful character tips. Anything helpful you could tell me about what I did right and wrong will be useful. I hope this is the start of a brand new, amazing project.

Update 3: Hello, it has been some time. I've been distracted from this project for personal reasons, but I am back and have a huge update. First, this has a title now! It will make sense as I go further with the project. Secondly, I have switched to FE8 in order to take advantage of certain patches to provide a larger amount of options in term of characters I can make and that you can use. I have currently finished up to chapter 5.

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Character Starting Stats and Growths - So Far + Recruitment:

Chapter 1:

(Automatic) James:

Level 1

Class: Mercenary

HP: 18, 70%

Strength: 4, 50%

Magic: 0, 25%

Skill: 8, 60%

Speed: 8, 45%

Defense: 4, 25%

Resistance: 0, 20%

Luck: 1, 30%

Constitution: 9

Personal Skill: Charisma (+10 hit/avoid for allies in 3 tiles)

(Automatic)Cameron:

Level 1

Class: Paladin

HP: 30, 60%

Strength: 14, 30%

Magic: 4, 10%

Skill: 13, 35%

Speed: 12, 35%

Defense: 11, 30%

Resistance: 8, 20%

Luck: 10, 15%

Constitution: 11

Personal Skill: Drive Strength (+4 strength to allies within 2 tiles)

(Automatic)Gollom:

Level 1

Class: Brigand

HP: 20, 70%

Power: 7, 70%

Magic: 0, 10%

Skill: 1, 40%

Speed: 7, 50%

Defense: 3, 25%

Resistance: 1, 20%

Luck: 2, 20%

Constitution: 12

Personal Skill: Intimidate (-10 avoid to all enemies within 2 tiles)

(AUTOMATIC) Sarah:

Level 1

Class: Cleric

HP: 16, 60%

Strength: 1, 25%

Magic: 8, 55%

Skill: 3, 25%

Speed: 5, 50%

Defense: 0, 20%

Resistance: 12, 55%

Luck: 3, 50%

Constitution: 5

Personal Skill:  Renewal (Restores 30% of hp at turn start)

Chapter 2:

(Automatic)Farla:

Level 1

Class: Myrmidon:

HP: 16, 45%

Strength: 5, 50%

Magic: 1, 30%

Skill: 10, 60%

Speed: 11, 55%

Defense: 3, 25%

Resistance: 1, 20%

Luck: 8, 20%

Constitution: 6

Personal Skill: Rally Speed (Use turn to give allies in 2 tiles +4 Speed)

(Automatic)Landren:

Level 1

Class: Mage

HP: 16, 30%

Strength: 1, 15%

Magic: 5, 60%

Skill: 5, 35%

Speed: 7, 40%

Defense: 3, 20%

Resistance: 7, 55%

Luck: 4, 50%

Constitution: 6

Personal Skill: Corona (Skill% chance to halve resistance)

(Automatic) Mary:

Level 1

Class: Archer

HP: 17, 45%

Strength: 6, 55%

Magic: 3, 40%

Skill: 6, 50%

Speed: 7, 30%

Defense: 4, 25%

Resistance: 0, 25%

Luck: 1, 20%

Constitution: 6

Personal Skill: Opportunist (+4 damage when enemy can't counter)

Chapter 3:

(Automatic)Qamar:

Level 1

Class: Prodigy

HP: 16, 75%

Strength: 3, 55%

Magic: 0, 25%

Skill: 3, 55%

Speed: 3, 60%

Defense: 3, 45%

Resistance: 0, 30%

Luck: 3, 60%

Constitution: 7

Personal Skill: Paragon (doubles experience)

Chapter 4:

Caleb (NPC, talk with James or Cameron) :

Level 1

Class: Thief

HP: 16, 45%

Strength: 5, 40%

Magic: 1, 25%

Skill 6, 65%

Speed: 10, 65%

Defense: 3, 25%

Resistance: 1, 20%

Luck: 8, 55%

Constitution: 6

Personal Skill: Alert Stance (+15 avoid when defending)

Chapter 5:

(Automatically) Anna:

Level 1

Class: Merchant

HP: 10, 80%

Strength: 0, 5%

Magic: 5, 50%

Skill: 0, 40%

Speed: 3, 60%

Defense: 0, 45%

Resistance: 6, 45%

Luck: 10,  70%

Constitution: 5

Personal Skill: Bargain (50% off items)

Chapter 6:

Asder (Automatically on turn 2):

Level 3

Class: Cavalier

HP: 30, 80%

Strength: 10, 40%

Magic: 0, 10%

Skill: 7, 45%

Speed: 10, 35%

Defense: 11, 50%

Resistance: 5, 30%

Luck: 10, 45%

Constitution: 9

Personal Skill: Triangle Adept (doubles advantage and disadvantages)

Shelly (automatically on turn 2):

Level 3

Class: Pegasus Knight

HP: 15, 45%

Strength: 9, 65%

Magic: 6, 40%

Skill: 8, 50%

Speed: 10, 45%

Defense: 4, 15%

Resistance: 3, 30%

Luck: 8, 45%

Constitution:  6

Personal Skill: Trample (+5 damage to unmounted enemies)

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Special Thanks:

Beta Eirika Edit by Eldritch Abomination

Der Forrest-Like by DerTheVaporeon

Less Generic Soldier by Alusq

Baron by Leo_link, Nuramon, Iscaneus

Malicorn by TBA, shadowofchaos, Sme, Shtick

Master Knight by Lenpuhu, Aruka, Nuramon

Supplier by jonthered

 

 

 

Demo.ups

Edited March 7, 2021 by Justanotheremblier
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[Hanes]

Alright, I played it already.

One of the first things I must note is that your characters are all pretty beefy, the enemies are very weak so I think you should at least lower your units' bases a bit so that it's more balanced. Really the only problem was Gallom's hit and it's still pretty good since the enemies are so weak but I imagine they were FE7 borrows so can't say much about that. Cameron is very powerful though, even if you buff the enemies his strength base must lower to 13 or 14 I say.

The enemy composition was also kinda bland, just brigands, an archer here and there would have been kind of cool but yeah first map and all that.

About the map though, it's way too perfect with symmetrical shapes here and there, with nature you've got to have a few irregularities around. Some tips for map decoration are to use more than 1 tile to decorate the battleground, if you look at Lyn's first map you can see different shades of grass on the ground that kind off diferentiate it from the rest and makes it more colorful.

For a demo map it's fine I guess, so I'm willing to see what progress you make.

I beated in: 4 turns

LTC: 3 

[Cure Naga]

I haven't tried the demo yet but why is Golem a Brigand if he uses magic? 

[Justanotheremblier]

1 hour ago, Cure Naga said:

I haven't tried the demo yet but why is Golem a Brigand if he uses magic? 

That was an error on my part, it should say power. I'll fix it.

[Lightcosmo]

This seems interesting. Wasn't too hard, but if that's the idea, that's fine. As far as things that would be nice to see? Well, do things that you enjoy doing, it's more fun when it's not something that you find a total drag.