2016年9月23日星期五

Dangerous Adventure 2 Walkthrough part 9 – Useless Trivia, Known Bugs and a short Review

Useless Trivia
Everyone has the same stats in the tutorial.
You’ll still have the starting skills and a plain garb even if you skip the tutorial.
You can click the cat in the potion shop to make it meow.
The background in the top part of the screen changes depending on your location.
It is possible to tell apart stones of different colors by the icons on them. But color blind people will still have trouble with the color of shields.
No two enemies will have the same color at the beginning of a battle.

Known Bugs
In Map 5, some of the enemies’ names do not match their graphics and stats, a group of enemies in Map 7 have the same problem.
In Map 6, Ogreps' skills appear in the queued action, but the icons do not deploy onto the field, making their skills completely useless.
Sometimes the game appears to freeze mid-turn, and the only thing you can do is running from the battle.

Review
This game really could use some better documentation. The ways many skills work are far from intuitive (Fist of Fury comes to mind), and the only way to find out is to test them on the battlefield. It gets worse with boss skills, ordinary enemies have their skills listed on the cards, but bosses don’t. When a great part of the challenge comes from figuring what the bosses can do, it feels like the game is about finding missing pieces of a puzzle rather than solving the puzzle itself. I am not sure this is a good design.

Obviously I still consider this a good game, or I wouldn’t spend three weeks on and off writing a walkthrough for it. A marked improvement from the original Dangerous Adventure is that there’s little need for level grinding. With a good understanding of how the game works and maximizing the effectiveness of meals and items, I only had to level grind to fight the Acolyte Master, which was entirely optional. I also appreciate the effort put into details like the changing background and the tutorial is pretty effective at teaching the basics.

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